Papyrus 8 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by or α 8 (von Soden), is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, it contains ; ; .. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 4th century.

The text is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page.C. R. Gregory, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament, p. 46.

Text The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.

The text of the codex was published by Salonius in 1927.A. H. Salonius, Die griechischen Handschriftenfragmente des Neuen Testaments in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, ZNW 26 (1927), pp. 97-119.

Location It is currently housed at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and part of the Berlin Papyrus Collection (Papyrus Berlin 8683).

See also Acts of the Apostles: chapter 4, 5, and 6 List of New Testament papyri

References

Further reading

C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments III (Leipzig: 1909), pp. 1087–1090.

A. H. Salonius, Die griechischen Handschriftenfragmente des Neuen Testaments in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, ZNW 26 (1927), pp. 97–119.

External links Digital image of P8 at CSNTM