Papyrus 28

(Referred to Gregory- Aland Sigel 28) Papyrus 28 is an early copy of the Greek New Testament. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John contains only the verses from 6.8 to 12 and 17-22. Using palaeography, it has been dated to the late 3rd century.

Description

The papyrus was written in medium-sized Halbunzialen. Is a single sheet, which is described in 12 lines per page. There are nouns sacra used, but incomplete.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (or rather a proto- Alexandrian text-type ). Kurt Aland placed it in Category I. The manuscript shows closest match to 75 ( in 7 of 10 variants). According to Grenfell and Hunt, it is closer to the Sinaiticus than at the Vatican. Only in one case, it supports the Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus Alexandrinus against (John 6:11). Grenfell and Hunt noted that the text " does not speak very correct". He has five unique interpretations. In John 6:10 it says πεντακισ ] χιλειοι, ελεβεν instead of ελαβεν in 6.19 ενγυς instead εγγυς in 6.20 φοβεισθαι instead of φοβεισθε in 6.22 ιδεν instead ειδεν.

History

The manuscript was found together with other documents of the 3rd and 4th centuries in Oxyrhynchus.

It is currently kept in the Pacific School of Religion (Pap. 2) in Berkeley.