P45 (Chester Beatty Papyrus 1)
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In the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin and the Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek,
Vienna
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Third Century
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Contains parts of all the Gospels and Acts
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Text is chiefly Caesarean in Mark, Alexandrian and Western elsewhere
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Represents a large collection of Biblical manuscripts aquired around 1930
from a dealer in Egypt by A. Chester Beatty, an American collector
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leaves vary in age from second to fourth centuries
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Believed to have been found on the banks of the Nile near Memphis
Derived from Gospel Parallels, Ed. Burton H. Throckmorton,
Jr., 1979, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville
LivingWeb Library: Scriptures: 229.9513
- Early Papers
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