Papyrus 22
Papyrus 22 is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is designated by , and is a papyrus manuscript containing text from the Gospel of John. Using the study of comparative writings styles,, the manuscript has been dated to the early 3rd century CE. It is the only identified New Testament papyrus to have been written originally as a roll; not a codex or re-using the back of a scroll.
Description
The original manuscript was likely a roll, and currently only has extant John 15:25-16:2, 21–32. The text is written in two consecutive columns, with the reverse side of the roll being blank. The manuscript employs conventional Nomina Sacra: . The text contains no punctuation marks.The Greek text of this codex is considered a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Åland described it as a normal text and placed it in Categories of [New Testament manuscripts#Category I|Category I]. This manuscript displays an independent text. Coincidences with the Codex Sinaiticus are frequent, but divergences are noticeable. There are no singular readings. According to Reverend Ellwood Schofield, the papyrus "rather represents the eclecticism of the early papyri before the crystallizing of the textual families had taken place."