Papyrus 70

Papyrus $\mathfrak{P}$⁷⁰

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Name	P. Oxy. 2384
Text	Matthew 2-3; 11; 12; 24 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Ashmolean Museum National Archaeological Museum (Florence)
Cite	E. Lobel, C. H. Roberts, E. G. Turner, and J. W. B. Barns, OP XXIV (1957), pp. 4-5.
Size	15 x 25 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I
Hand	carelessly written

Papyrus 70 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by $\mathfrak{P}$⁷⁰, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 2:13-16; 2:22-3:1; 11:26-27; 12:4-5; 24:3-6.12-15. $\mathfrak{P}$⁷⁰ has a fairly reliable text, though it was carelessly written. The manuscript palaeographically had been assigned to the late 3rd century.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland ascribed it as a “strict text”, and placed it in Category I.

Present location

It is currently housed at the Ashmolean Museum (P. Oxy. 2384) in Oxford and at the Papyrological Institute of Florence in National Archaeological Museum (Florence) (PSI 3407 – formerly CNR 419, 420).

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Oxyrhynchus papyri

Images

• Oxyrhynchus 2384
• $\mathfrak{P}$⁷⁰ Matt. 11:26-27
• $\mathfrak{P}$⁷⁰ Matt. 12:4-5

Further reading

• Edgar Lobel, Colin H. Roberts, E. G. Turner, and J. W. B. Barns, Oxyrhynchus Papyri, XXIV (London: 1957), pp. 4–5.
• M. Naldini, Nuovi frammenti del vangelo di Matteo, Prometeus 1 (Florence: 1975), pp. 195–200.