PAPYRUS 8 (P8) P. Berlin 8683 Early Greek Manuscript Copy of Acts 4-6

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Text	Acts 4-6 †
Date	250-300 C.E.
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Cite	A. H. Salonius, Die griechischen Handschriftenfragmente des Neuen Testaments in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, ZNW 26 (1927), 97-119
Size	18.6 by 10.4 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II

Text	Acts 4:31-37; 5:1-9; 6:1-6, 8-15
Date	250-300 C.E.
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Housing Location	Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Inv. 8683)
Cite	A. H. Salonius, Die griechischen Handschriftenfragmente des Neuen Testaments in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, ZNW 26 (1927), 97-119
Size	18.6 by 10.4 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II

Lukas, Acta Apostolorum 4, 31–6, 15. frühes 4. Jh. n.Chr.

Papyrus 8 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by P⁸ 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 Acts 4:31-37; 5:2-9; 6:1-6.8-15. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 250-300 C.E.[1]

The text is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page.[2]

Text of P8

The Greek text of this codex is representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.[3]

The text of the codex was published by Salonius in 1927.[4]

Housing Location

It is currently housed at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Inv. no. 8683) in Berlin.[5]

[1] Philip Wesley Comfort and David P. Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Academic, 2019), P. 85, Vol. I
[2] C. R. Gregory, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament, p. 46.
[3] Kurt Aland; Barbara Aland (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 96.
[4] A. H. Salonius, Die griechischen Handschriftenfragmente des Neuen Testaments in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, ZNW 26 (1927), pp. 97-119.
[5] “Handschriftenliste”. Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved Sunday, April 19, 2020.