Papyrus 65

Papyrus 65 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓65, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the First Epistle to the Thessalonians. The surviving texts of the epistle are the verses 1:3-2:1 and 2:6-13. The manuscript has been assigned on palaeographic grounds to the 3rd century.

Text
Papyrus 𝔓65
New Testament manuscript
Text1 Thessalonians 1-2 †
Date3rd century
ScriptGreek
FoundEgypt
Now atNational Archaeological Museum (Florence)
CiteV. Bartoletti, PGLSI XIV, (1957), pp. 5-7.
TypeAlexandrian text-type
CategoryI

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I, but text of the manuscript is too brief for certainty. According to Philip Comfort, 𝔓49 and 𝔓65 came from the same manuscript.

Location

It is currently housed at the Papyrological Institute of Florence in National Archaeological Museum (Florence) (PSI 1373).

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