The article provides a fresh edition and analysis of p.ifao inv. 237b (𝔓98), supposedly the earliest manuscript of the Book of Revelation. The new edition includes corrections to Hagedorn’s 1992 edition, an updated transcription (including two previously undeciphered lines of text), and a colour image of the papyrus. The text of the papyrus is then inspected and classified based on the manner of transmission and the textual quality it reflects.
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So Orsini and Clarysse, “New Testament Manuscripts and Their Dates,” 457. Note also frequent rounded loops in alpha and phi.
Cf. K. Aland and B. Aland, The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism (2nd ed.; trans. E.F. Rhodes; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989) 59.
See Aland and Aland, Text of the New Testament, 58-64, 96-101.
See B. Aland, “Kriterien zur Beurteilung kleinerer Papyrusfragmente des Neuen Testaments,” in New Testament Textual Criticism and Exegesis: Festschrift J. Delobel, ed. A. Denaux (betl 161; Leuven: Leuven University Press and Peeters, 2002) 2; B. Aland, “Der textkritische und textgeschichtliche Nutzen früher Papyri, demonstriert am Johannesevangelium,” in Recent Developments in Textual Criticism: New Testament, Other Early Christian and Jewish Literature, ed. W. Weren and D.-A. Koch (Studies in Theology and Religion 8; Assen: Royal van Gorcum, 2003) 19-20.
So B.D. Ehrman, “A Problem of Textual Circularity: The Alands on the Classification of New Testament Manuscripts,” Biblica 70 (1989) 381 n. 19.
See Gignac, Grammar, 2:278-282, 285. Cf. also J.R. Royse, Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri (nttsd 36; Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008) 894.
See further A. Dain, Les manuscrits (Collection d’études anciennes Paris: Belles Lettres, 1949) 44-45; E.C. Colwell, “Method in Evaluating Scribal Habits: A Study of P45, P66, P75,” in Studies in Methodology in Textual Criticism of the New Testament, ed. E.C. Colwell (Leiden: Brill, 1969), 112, 116, 120, 122-124; M.L. West, Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique: Applicable to Greek and Latin Texts (Teubner Studienbücher Philologie; Stuttgart: B.G. Teubner, 1973) 24; L.D. Reynolds and N.G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature (3rd ed.; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991) 226-227; Jongkind, Scribal Habits, 246.
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The article provides a fresh edition and analysis of p.ifao inv. 237b (𝔓98), supposedly the earliest manuscript of the Book of Revelation. The new edition includes corrections to Hagedorn’s 1992 edition, an updated transcription (including two previously undeciphered lines of text), and a colour image of the papyrus. The text of the papyrus is then inspected and classified based on the manner of transmission and the textual quality it reflects.
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