Thursday, December 21, 2023

P69 (P. Oxy. 2383) (late second or early third century) lacking Luke 22:42-44

 On P69 (P. Oxy. 2383) (late second or early third century):

 

The manuscript does not include Luke 22:42-44. The editor of this papyrus, E. G. Gurner, is fairly confident that the only way to account for this large lacuna is to assume that the copyist’s exemplar did not contain Luke 22:43-44 and that verse 42 was omitted during copying. Thus, P69 is one of the earliest witnesses to the omission of this text, along with P75, א1, B, T, and W. (Philip Wesley Comfort and David P. Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, 2 vols. [3d ed; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel Academic, 2019], 1:439)

 

Further Reading

 

Lincoln H. Blumell, "Luke 22:43–44: An Anti-Docetic Interpolation or an Apologetic Omission?,” TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 19 (2014): 1–35.

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