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{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form = Papyrus
| number = '''<math>\mathfrak{P}</math>47'''
| image = Papyrus 47 Rev 13,16-14.4.jpg
| isize =
| caption=
| name =
| sign =
| text = [[Book of Revelation]] 9:10-17:2 †
| script = [[Greek language|Greek]]
| date = 3rd century
| found = [[Egypt]]
| now at = [[Chester Beatty Library]]
| cite = F. G. Kenyon, ''The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri'' III, (London, 1934).
| size =
| type = [[Alexandrian text-type]]
| cat = I
| hand =
| note = close to [[Codex Sinaiticus|Sinaiticus]], [[Uncial 0308|0308]]
}}

'''Papyrus 47''' (Gregory-Aland), signed by '''<math>\mathfrak{P}</math>47''', is an early copy of the [[New Testament]] in [[Greek language|Greek]]. It is a [[papyrus]] [[manuscript]] of the [[Book of Revelation]], it contains Rev. 9:10-11:3; 11:5-16:15; 16:17-17:2. The manuscript [[Palaeography|paleographically]] has been assigned to the 3rd century. It gives the [[number of the beast]] as "666" (as opposed to 616).<ref>''[http://books.google.com.vn/books?ei=MYWHUZKGJcLtrAeP7oDAAQ&id=o78NAQAAMAAJ&dq= Beacon Bible Commentary: Hebrews-Revelation]'' (1969), p. 577. "616" is given by [[Papyrus 115]].</ref>

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the [[Alexandrian text-type]]. [[Kurt Aland|Aland]] ascribed it as a ''Normal text'', and 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=99
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=2pYDsAhUOxAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
|isbn=978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>
The text of this manuscript is closest to [[Codex Sinaiticus]], and they are witnesses for one of early textual types of the Book of Revelation.<ref>Philip W. Comfort, ''Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism'', Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 68. </ref> Another type is represented by manuscripts [[Papyrus 115]], [[Codex Alexandrinus]], and [[Codex Ephraemi]].

It is currently housed at the [[Chester Beatty Library]] (Inv. 14. 1. 527) in [[Dublin]].<ref name = Aland/><ref name = INTF>{{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=10047|title= Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|accessdate=26 August 2011|location=Münster}} </ref>

== See also ==

* [[List of New Testament papyri]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==

* [[Frederic G. Kenyon|F. G. Kenyon]], ''The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri'' III, (London, 1934).
* {{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 = 335–351
| url =
| isbn = 978-0-8423-5265-9}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Papyrus 0047}}
[[Category:New Testament papyri]]
[[Category:3rd-century biblical manuscripts]]
[[Category:Early Greek manuscripts of the New Testament]]
[[Category:Manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library]]

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