Papyrus 98 (in the Gregory–Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓98, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Book of Revelation. The manuscript palaeographically had been assigned to years around 150–250.

Description

The surviving text of Revelation includes verses 1:13–2:1 in a fragmentary condition. The script is well-formed and large. It was formed in a scroll. The biblical text is on the side verso. On the recto is another documentary text dated to the end of the 1st century or the beginning of the 2nd century. Side verso of the scroll was used for the biblical text at the end of the 2nd century.

It has an error of dittography in the first line – περι̣εζωσμμ̣εν̣ον instead of περιεζωσμενον.

Text

It is still not placed in any of Aland's Categories of New Testament manuscripts. "The text shows several differences from that printed in Nestle–Aland 27th".

[Recto]

In Rev 1:18 it lacks the phrase as Latin Codex Gigas and some manuscripts of Vulgate. It is the only Greek manuscript not containing this phrase.

History

The manuscript was probably written in Egypt.

The first publisher was Wagner in 1971, who did not know that it was a biblical text. Hagedorn discovered that it was the text of Rev. 1:13–2:1.

1. Present location

The manuscript is currently housed at the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (P. IFAO inv. 237b [+a]) at Cairo.

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

References

Further reading

• D. Hagedorn, P.IFAO II 31: Johannesapokalypse 1,13-20, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 92 (1992), pp.243–247.

• Peter Malik, "Novum Testamentum" 58 (2016), p. 204–217.

Image

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