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Papyrus 72
Manuscript · 3rd–4th century AD · Bible manuscripts · also called P72, Papyrus Bodmer VII–VIII
See it on the map and timeline- Date
- 3rd–4th century AD (the handwriting (an estimate))
- Found
- Egypt (bought from a dealer; probably from the same find as the other Bodmer Papyri), 1956. Bought by Martin Bodmer on the Egyptian antiquities market in 1955–56 and published by Michel Testuz in 1959. Bodmer gave the pages with 1 and 2 Peter to Pope Paul VI in 1969; Jude stayed in Geneva.
- Now
- Vatican Apostolic Library (1 and 2 Peter) and Fondation Martin Bodmer (Jude), Vatican City and Cologny (Geneva) (Pap. Bodmer VIII (Vatican); P. Bodmer VII (Bodmer))
- Passages
- 1 Peter 1:1 – 1 Peter 5:14, 2 Peter 1:1 – 2 Peter 3:18, Jude 1:1–25
What it is
Pages from a papyrus book with the letters 1 Peter, 2 Peter and Jude in Greek. They come from a larger miscellaneous codex that also held other early Christian writings.
How it connects to the Bible
No older copy of the complete text of any of these three letters is known. Its text of 1 and 2 Peter is close to that of the great codices Vaticanus and Alexandrinus, while its Jude is copied more freely.