Papyrus 108 designated by ¹⁰⁸, is an early copy of a part of the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

 in Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

. It is a papyrus

Papyrus

Papyrus is a thick paper-like material produced from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge that was once abundant in the Nile Delta of Egypt....

 manuscript

Manuscript

A manuscript or handwrite is written information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way...

 of the Gospel of John

Gospel of John

The Gospel According to John , commonly referred to as the Gospel of John or simply John, and often referred to in New Testament scholarship as the Fourth Gospel, is an account of the public ministry of Jesus...

. The surviving texts of John are verses 17:23-24; 18:1-5, they are in a fragmentary condition. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the late 2nd or early 3rd century.

Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type

Alexandrian text-type

The Alexandrian text-type , associated with Alexandria, is one of several text-types used in New Testament textual criticism to describe and group the textual character of biblical manuscripts...

. The manuscripts, though small, concurs with Codex Sinaiticus

Codex Sinaiticus

Codex Sinaiticus is one of the four great uncial codices, an ancient, handwritten copy of the Greek Bible. It is an Alexandrian text-type manuscript written in the 4th century in uncial letters on parchment. Current scholarship considers the Codex Sinaiticus to be one of the best Greek texts of...

. It has itacistic error in John 17:23 (γεινωσκη instead of γινωσκη).

Location
The manuscript is currently housed at the Papyrology Rooms, of the Sackler Library

Sackler Library

The Sackler Library holds a large portion of the classical, art historical, and archaeological works belonging to the University of Oxford, England.- History :...

 at Oxford University with the shelf number P. Oxy. 4447.

Images

• P.Oxy.LXIV 4447 from Papyrology at Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online"
• Image from ¹⁰⁸ recto, John 17:23-24
• Image from ¹⁰⁸ verso, John 18:1-5

Official registration

• "Continuation of the Manuscript List" Institute for New Testament Textual Research, University of Münster
  University of Münster
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