Papyrus 103

Papyrus 103

New Testament manuscript
Name	P. Oxy. 4403
Sign	𝔓^103
Text	Gospel of Matthew 13:55-56; 14:3-5
Date	2nd / 3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Now at	Sackler Library
Cite	J. D. Thomas, OP LXIV (1997), pp. 5-7
Size	[16] x [11] cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Papyrus 103 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓^103, is a copy of part of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew.

Description

The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 13:55-56 and 14:3-5: they are in a fragmentary condition. The manuscript has been assigned palaeographically to the late 2nd or early 3rd century.

Probably together with Papyrus 77 it belonged to the same codex.[1]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. According to Comfort it is proto-Alexandrian text.[1]

In Matthew 13:55, the name of Jesus' second brother reads [...]ης so that either Ἰωάννης (John) and Ἰωσῆς (Joses) are possible original readings.

Ἰωάννης (John) א* D M U Γ 2 28 579 1424 Byz^mss vg^mss Origen^pt

Ἰωσῆς (Joses) K L W Δ Π 0106 f^13 22 565 1241 1582^mg Byz^mss it^k,qc co^sa,bomss Basil of Caesarea

Ἰωσῆ (Joses) 118 157 700* 1071 syr^h co^bomss

Ἰωσὴφ (Joseph) א^2 B C N Θ f^1 33 700^c 892 lat syr^s,c,hmg mae-1 Codex Schøyen co^bomss Origen^pt

Location

The manuscript is currently housed at the Sackler Library (Papyrology Rooms, P. Oxy. 4403) in Oxford.[2]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Oxyrhynchus Papyri

References

1. Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography and Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 73.
2. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.

Further reading

• J. David Thomas, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXIV (London: 1997), pp. 5–7.
• Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 641–644. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.

External links

Images

• P.Oxy.LXIV 4403 from Papyrology at Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online"
• 𝔓^103 recto and verso

Official registration

• "Continuation of the Manuscript List" Institute for New Testament Textual Research, University of Münster. Retrieved April 9, 2008