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A New Testament papyrus is a copy of a portion of the New Testament made on papyrus. To date, over one hundred and twenty such papyri are known. In general, they are considered the earliest witnesses to the original text of the New Testament.〔Nestle-Aland 1996〕 This elite status among New Testament manuscripts only began in the 20th century. The grouping was first introduced by Caspar René Gregory, who assigned papyri texts the Blackletter character followed by a superscript number. This number refers not to the age of the papyrus, but to the order in which it was registered.〔Law 2012, p. 95〕 Before 1900, only 9 papyri manuscripts were known, and only one had been cited in a critical apparatus ( by Constantin von Tischendorf). These 9 papyri were just single fragments, except for , which consisted of a single whole leaf.〔Aland 1996, pp. 83-84, 87〕 The discoveries of the twentieth century brought about the earliest known New Testament manuscript fragments.〔', , , and all dating to the 2nd century〕 Kenyon in 1912 knew 14 papyri,〔Kenyon, F. G., (''Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament'' ), London2, 1912, p. 129.〕 Aland in his first edition of ''Kurzgefasste...'' in 1963 enumerated 76 papyri, in 1989 were known 96 papyri, and in 2008 124 papyri. As of 2015, a total of 131 papyri are known. The most important papyri are (the Chester-Beatty papyrus), which contains the Gospels; , which contains the letters of Paul; and , which contains the Revelation of John. All of these date from sometime in the third century.〔Law 2012, p. 95〕 Discoveries were also made of more complete manuscripts, which allowed scholars to examine the textual character of these early manuscripts.〔, , and of the Bodmer Papyri are notable in this regard. In fact, the preservation level of surprised scholars because the first 26 leaves were basically fully intact, and even the stitching of the binding remained.〕 Not all of the manuscripts are simply New Testament texts: , , , are texts with commentaries; , , and are lectionaries; , , and are talismans; and , , , , , , and belong to other miscellaneous texts, such as writing scraps, glossaries, or songs.〔Aland 1996, p. 85〕 Every papyrus is cited in Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece. == List of all registered New Testament papyri == * The P-numbers are the standard system of Gregory-Aland. * Dates are estimated to the nearest 50 year increment. * Content is given to the nearest chapter; verses are sometimes listed. Thus, many of the papyri are small fragments, not whole chapters. For instance, contains 5 verses out of the 40 verses in John chapter 18. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of New Testament papyri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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