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{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form = Papyrus
| number = <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>20
| image = Papyrus 20 (Jc 1 vers).jpeg
| isize =
| caption=
| name = [[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|P. Oxy.]] 1171
| sign =
| text = [[Epistle of James]] 2-3 †
| script = [[Greek language|Greek]]
| date = 3rd century
| found = [[Egypt]]
| now at = [[Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library|Princeton University Library]]
| cite = [[Bernard Pyne Grenfell|B. P. Grenfell]] & [[Arthur Surridge Hunt|A. S. Hunt]], ''Oxyrhynchus Papyri'' IX, (London 1912), pp. 9-11
| size = 11.5 by 4.5 cm
| type = [[Alexandrian text-type]]
| cat = I
| hand =
| note =
}}

'''Papyrus 20''' (in the [[Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland|Gregory-Aland numbering]]), designated by <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>20, is an early copy of the [[New Testament]] in [[Greek language|Greek]]. It is a [[papyrus]] [[Biblical manuscript|manuscript]] of the [[Epistle of James]], but it only contains Chapter 2:19-3:9. The manuscript has been [[Paleography|paleographically]] assigned to the early 3rd century.<ref name = Aland/>

== Description ==

The original size of the leaves was 17 by 12 cm.

The text is neatly written in upright semi-cursive letters. The main [[Nomina Sacra]] are used, but πατηρ/pater/father and ανθρωπος/anthropos/man are written out in full.<ref name = Grenfell>B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, ''Oxyrhynchus Papyri'' IX, (London 1912), p. 9.</ref>

The Greek text of this codex is representative of the [[Alexandrian text-type]] (rather proto-Alexandrian). [[Kurt Aland|Aland]] placed it in [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts#Category I|Category I]].<ref name = Aland>{{Cite book
|last=Aland
|first=Kurt
|authorlink=Kurt Aland
|coauthors=[[Barbara Aland]]; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.)
|title=The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism
|publisher=[[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company]]
|year=1995
|location=Grand Rapids
|page=97
|url=http://books.google.pl/books?id=2pYDsAhUOxAC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false
|isbn=978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref> This manuscript shows the greatest agreement with [[Codex Sinaiticus]] and [[Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209|Vaticanus]],<ref name = comfort>{{Cite book
| last = Comfort
| first = Philip W.
| authorlink = Philip Comfort
| author2 = David P. Barrett
| title = The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts
| publisher = Tyndale House Publishers
| year = 2001
| location = Wheaton, Illinois
| pages = 106
| url =
| isbn = 978-0-8423-5265-9}} </ref> but not with codices [[Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus|Ephraemi]], [[Codex Regius (New Testament)|Regius]] and other late Alexandrian manuscripts.<ref name = Grenfell/>

Philip Comfort has conjectured that the scribe who wrote <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>20 was also the same scribe who wrote [[Papyrus 27|<math>\mathfrak{P}</math>27]], where the Greek letters α, β, δ, ε, λ, ι, μ, ν, ο, π, ρ, σ, ψ, υ, φ, ω are formed identically in both manuscripts.<ref name = comfort/>

It is currently housed at the [[Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library|Princeton University Library]] (AM 4117) in [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]].<ref name = Aland/><ref name = INTF>{{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=10020|title= Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|accessdate=23 August 2011|location=Münster}} </ref>

== See also ==

* [[List of New Testament papyri]]
* [[Princeton Papyri]]

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==

* [[Bernard Pyne Grenfell|B. P. Grenfell]] & [[Arthur Surridge Hunt|A. S. Hunt]], [http://www.archive.org/stream/pt9oxyrhynchuspa00grenuoft#page/8/mode/2up ''Oxyrhynchus Papyri'' IX], (London 1912), pp. 9-11.

== External links ==

* Robert B. Waltz. [http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/ManuscriptsPapyri.html#P20 NT Manuscripts: Papyri, <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>20] ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism''
* [http://www.princeton.edu/~dcskemer/APISJames1.html Images of the <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>20 at the Princeton University Library Papyrus]
* [http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0POxy--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4----ded--0-1l--1-en-50---20-about-1708--00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=POxy&cl=CL5.1.9&d=HASH66d3e01e54ed3ca692ae08 P. Oxy. 1171] at the Oxyrhynchus Online

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[[Category:New Testament papyri]]
[[Category:3rd-century biblical manuscripts]]
[[Category:Early Greek manuscripts of the New Testament]]
[[Category:Oxyrhynchus papyri]]

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