APIS
(The Advanced Papyrological Information System) - An online database featuring
records and images of papyri from all of the major collections in North America,
APIS includes a record for each
leaf of P46 that is owned by the University of Michigan (P.Mich. inventory
no. 6238).
These web pages draw heavily on the original publications of P.
Chester Beaty 2, by Sir Frederick Kenyon, and P.Mich. inv 6238, by Prof. Henry
Sanders. Also included below are materials that were used in the preparation
of these web pages or which may be useful to readers wishing to learn more about
P46 and New Testament scholarship.
Kenyon, F.G., Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts (5th ed.) (London
1958).
Metzger, B.M., The Text of the New Testament; Its Transmission, Corruption,
and Restoration. (Oxford 1964).
Metzger, B.M., A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament: A Companion
Volume to the United Bible Societies’ Greek New Testament (3d ed.)
Paap, A.H.R.E., Nomina Sacra in the Greek Papyri of the First Five Centuries.
Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava VIII (Leiden 1959).
Roberts, C.H. & T.C. Skeat, The Birth of the Codex. (London
1983).
Sanders, H.A. (ed.), Michigan Papyri IIIa. No. 222, A Third Century
Codex of the Epistles of Paul (Ann Arbor 1935). [Univ. of Mich. Studies,
Humanistic Series 38].
Turner, E.G., The Typology of the Early Codex (Pennsylvania 1977).