Papyrus 138

Papyrus manuscript

New Testament manuscript

Papyrus **138**
New Testament manuscript
Name	P. Oxy 5346
Sign	𝔓¹³⁸
Text	Luke 13:13–17, 25–30
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Oxyrhynchus
Now at	University of Oxford, Sackler Library, Oxford, England
Cite	Parsons, Peter John and Nikos Gonis and W E H Cockle, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. 83, no. 5346, Egypt Exploration Society: London, England, 2018.
Type	Alexandrian

Papyrus 138 (designated as 𝔓¹³⁸ in the Gregory-Aland numbering system) is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of Luke. The text survives on fragments from one edge of a single leaf containing parts of verses 13:13–17 on the front and 13:25-30 on the back. The manuscript has been assigned paleographically to the 3rd century.^[1]

Location

𝔓¹³⁸ is housed at the Sackler Library (P. Oxy 5346) at the University of Oxford.^[2]

Textual variant

In Luke 13:29, 𝔓¹³⁸ reads απο immediately preceding the beginning of βορρα, as do the Alexandrian manuscripts 𝔓⁷⁵ and 070. But according to the reconstruction of Parsons based on line-spacing, it lacks και before απο.

References

^ P. Parsons, N. Gonis and W. Cockle, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. 83, no. 5346, Egypt Exploration Society: London, England, 2018.
^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 3 March 2023.