Papyrus 106

Papyrus 106

New Testament manuscript
Name	P. Oxy. 4445
Sign	𝔓^106
Text	Gospel of John 1:29-35; 1:40-46
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Now at	Sackler Library
Cite	W. E. H. Cockle, OP LXIV (1997), pp. 11-14
Size	13 x 8.8 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Papyrus 106 is a fragmentary manuscript of the Gospel of John from the New Testament in Greek written on papyrus. It contains text from John 1:29-35 & 1:40-46. It is designated by the siglum 𝔓^106 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned assigned to the early 3rd century.[1] The manuscript is currently housed at the Sackler Library (Papyrology Rooms, shelf number P. Oxy. 4445) at Oxford University in Oxford, England.[2]

Description

The manuscript is made of papyrus, and originally would have been around 12.5 cm x 23 cm in size, with about 35 lines per page.[3] Due to pagination being extant (gamma/Γ (=3) on the front and delta/Δ (=4) on the reverse of the leaf), this indicates that the manuscript was either a single codex of John, or had John at the beginning of a collection.[1]: 33 

Textual Character

Despite its fragmentary nature, the text of the manuscript is considered a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (or rather proto-Alexandrian), bearing familiarity to 𝔓^66, 𝔓^75, Codex Sinaiticus (א‎), and Vaticanus (B).[1] The text-types are groups of different New Testament manuscripts which share specific or generally related readings, which then differ from each other group, and thus the conflicting readings can separate out the groups.[4]: 231–232  These are then used to determine the original text as published; there are three main groups with names: Alexandrian, Western, and Byzantine.[4]: 306–307 

Some notable readings

Below are some readings of the manuscript and how they relate to other manuscripts of the New Testament.[5]

John 1:30:

υπερ (on behalf of): 𝔓^106 𝔓^5 𝔓^66 𝔓^75 א‎* B C* W^s pc

περι (concerning): א‎^2 A C^3 L Θ Ψ 0101 ƒ^1 ƒ^13 33 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {M}}}$; Epiph

John 1:32 (1)

λεγων (saying)

omit. : 𝔓^106 א‎*

incl. : 𝔓^55 𝔓^66 𝔓^75 א‎^1 A B C

John 1:32 (2)

καταβαινον ως περιστεραν (descended as a dove): 𝔓^106 𝔓^55 𝔓^75 A B C

καταβαινον ωσει περιστερὰν (descended as if like a dove) : 𝔓^66 K P Δ 0101 ƒ^1 ƒ^13 700 892 1241 1424 l 2211 pm

ως περιστεραν καταβαινον (as a dove descended) : א‎

John 1:34

εκλεκτος (chosen) : 𝔓^106 𝔓^5 א‎* b e ff^2 Syriac Curetonian (sy^c s).[6]

υς (υιος) (son) : 𝔓^66 𝔓^75 א‎^2 A B C D W Θ Ψ 083

John 1:42

ιωαννου (of John) : 𝔓^106 𝔓^66 𝔓^75 א‎ B* L W^s 33 pc it co

ιωαννα (to John) : Θ 1241 pc vg

ιωνα (Jonah) : A B^2 Ψ ƒ^1 ƒ^13 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {M}}}$ c q vg^cl sy bo^ms; Epiph

John 1:45

ναζαρεθ (Nazareth) : 𝔓^106 𝔓^75 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {M}}}$

ναζαρετ (Nazaret) : 𝔓^66 א‎ A B

John 1:46

ναζαρεθ (Nazareth) : 𝔓^106 𝔓^75 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {M}}}$

ναζαρετ (Nazaret) : 𝔓^66 א‎ A B

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Oxyrhynchus Papyri

References

1. Comfort, Philip Wesley (2005). Encountering the Manuscripts: An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman. p. 75.
2. "Liste Handschriften: Papyrus 106". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
3. Comfort, Philip Wesley; Barrett, David P. (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek manuscripts (2 ed.). Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House. p. 645. ISBN 0-8423-5265-1.
4. Metzger, Bruce Manning; Ehrman, Bart D. (2005). The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-516667-1.
5. Taken from NA27 Edition Apparatus, and http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/nt-transcripts Archived 2015-06-13 at the Wayback Machine
6. Peter M. Head The Habits of New Testament Copyists Singular Readings in the Early Fragmentary Papyri of John Biblica 85 (2004) p. 403.

Further reading

• W. E. H. Cockle, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXV (London: 1998), pp. 11–14.

External links

Images

• P.Oxy.LXIV 4445 from the University of Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online" (accessed 5 Jan 2025)

Official registration

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