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Papyrus 12 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1033 (in the Soden numbering), designated by siglum[1] P¹², is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus[2] manuscript[3] of the Epistle to the Hebrews; it contains only Hebrews 1:1.[4] The manuscript palaeographically[5] has been assigned to ca. 285. It may have been a writing exercise or an amulet.[6]

Papyrus P¹²
New Testament Manuscript papyri

Name	P. Amherst 3b
Text	Epistle to the Hebrews 1 †
Date	285-300 C.E.
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt 1897
Now at	The Morgan Library & Museum
Cite	B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri I, (London 1900), pp. 28-31 (P. Amherst 3 b)
Size	20,8 cm x 23 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Comfort Writes,

The manuscript is a letter written by an Egyptian Christian traveling in Rome to his fellow Christians in the Arsinoite Nome, in the Fayum of Egypt. On top of the second column, another writer has penned Hebrews 1:1 in three lines. On the verso of this manuscript, another writer has penned Genesis 1:1–5 LXX. The letter was written between the years 264/265 and 281/282, and the marginal addition was probably added not long after the composition of the letter.^[7]

Description

On the top of the second column, another writer has penned Hebrews 1:1 in three lines. It has been written in a small uncial hand.[8] On the verso of this manuscript, another writer has penned Genesis 1:1-5 according to Septuaginta.[9]

Text

Square brackets [ … ] indicates conjectural reconstruction of the beginning or ending of a manuscript, or, within the transcriptions, letters or words most likely to have been in the original manuscript.

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1 ΠολυμερῶςIn many parts καὶand πολυ[τρό]πωςin many ways πάλαιof old ὁthe θεὸςGod λαλήσ[α]ςhaving spoken το[ῖςto the π]ατράσ[ι]νfathers ἐνin τοῖςthe προ[φήταις]prophets

πολυμερως κ πολυ[τρο]πως
παλε ο θς λαλήσ[α]ς το[ις π]ατρα
σ[ι] ημ[ω]ν εν τοις προ[φηταις][10]

It has an error of itacism[11] (παλε instead of παλαι), the nomina sacra [12] contracted (θς).

The Greek text of this codex probably is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type,[13] but its text is too brief for certainty. Aland placed it in Category I,[14]

It supports textual variant with ημων as in codices P⁴⁶^c a t v vg^mss syr^p.[15]