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Papyrus 𝔓¹²
New Testament manuscript
Name	P. Amherst 3b
Text	Epistle to the Hebrews 1 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt 1897
Now at	The Morgan Library & Museum
Cite	B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri I, (London 1900), pp. 28-31 (P. Amherst 3 b)
Size	20,8 cm x 23 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type ?
Category	I

Papyrus 12 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), α 1033 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), designated by siglum 𝔓¹², is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Hebrews but only containing Hebrews 1:1. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to ca. 285. It may have been a writing exercise or an amulet.^[1]

Description

The verse has been written at the top of the second column by another (likely later) writer in three lines.^[1]^: 82 It has been written in a small uncial hand.^[2] On the verso of this manuscript another writer has penned Genesis 1:1-5 according to Septuagint.^[1]

Text: πολυμερως κ πολυ[τρο]πως; παλε ο θς λαλήσ[α]ς το[ις π]ατρα; σ[ι] ημ[ω]ν εν τοις προ[φηταις]^[2]

It has error of itacism (παλε instead of παλαι), the nomina sacra contracted (ΘΣ).

The Greek text of this small portion of Hebrews is probably a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, but its text is too brief for certainty. Aland placed it in Category I of his New Testament manuscript classification system.^[3]

It supports the textual variant ημων as in codices 𝔓⁴⁶^c a t v vg^mss syr^p.^[4]

History

The manuscript was discovered in 1897 by Grenfell and Hunt.^[1]

It is currently housed at The Morgan Library & Museum (Pap. Gr. 3; P. Amherst 3b) in New York City.^[3]^[5]^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Comfort, Philip Wesley; Barrett, David P. (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.
^ ^a ^b B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri I, (London 1900), p. 30.
^ ^a ^b Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
^ NA26, p. 563.
^ "Handschriftenliste". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
^ INTF. "Papirus 12 (GA)". Liste Handschriften. Münster Institute. Retrieved 2012-02-29.