Papyrus 65

Papyrus $\mathfrak{P}$⁶⁵

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Text	1 Thessalonians 1-2 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	National Archaeological Museum (Florence)
Cite	V. Bartoletti, PGLSI XIV, (1957), pp. 5-7.
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Papyrus 65 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by $\mathfrak{P}$⁶⁵, 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

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 Comfort $\mathfrak{P}$⁴⁹ and $\mathfrak{P}$⁶⁵ came from the same manuscript.

Location

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

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

Further reading

• Vittorio Bartoletti, Papiri greci e latini della Società Italiana, vol. XIV, (1957), pp. 5–7.
• Naldini, Documenti, no. 17.

Images

• Papyrus 65