Papyrus 4

Papyrus 4 ( in the Gregory- Aland numbering 4, part of Suppl. Gr. 1120) is an early manuscript of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Luke and is dated to the late second / early third century. Together with 75, it is one of the oldest manuscripts of the Gospel of Luke and contains large parts of the first six chapters. It is currently kept in Paris in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1120 Suppl Gr. ).

4 of the Code of Philo was for binding "is used, which was written in the late 3rd century. He was found in a trash can that had been immured in a house in Koptos (250 ). "

The Greek text representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I.

Dating

Philip Comfort and David Barret in their book Text of the Earliest NT Greek Manuscripts that 4 of the same Code, as 64/67 ( the Magdalen Papyrus ) tribe and dated the text to 150-175 AD Wieland provisionally agrees with the " dating to the 3rd century, respectively, as well as in the NA27. Some trace it to the 2nd century (eg Roberts and Comfort). This is most likely when one considers the use of the binding material for a code of the 3rd century. ".

Comfort and Barret also show that 4 and 64/67 some similarities with a number of papyri of the late 2nd century have .. Roberts ( 1979), Skeat (1997), Wieland and Stanton date the text also to the late second century. This leads Gregory to the conclusion that " there are good reasons to believe that 4 ... may be written in the 2nd century. "

Recently Charlesworth found that 64/67 and 4, although written by the same writer, not the same ... Code come.