page_title: Papyrus 72
section_title: Text
hierarchical_section_title: Papyrus 72 / Text
caption_attribution_description: English: Papyrus 72 or Papyrus Bodmer VII-IX
context_page_description: Papyrus 72 is the designation used by textual critics of the New Testament to describe portions of the so-called Bodmer Miscellaneous codex, namely the letters of Jude, 1 Peter, and 2 Peter. These books seem to have been copied by the same scribe, and the handwriting has been paleographically assigned to the 3rd or 4th century.
  Although the letters of Jude and 1-2 Peter in this codex do not form a single continuous text, scholars still tend to refer to these three texts as a single early New Testament papyrus.
context_section_description: The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. According to Aland in 1-2 Peter it has normal text, in Jude free text, both with certain peculiarities. Aland placed it into I Category. It is close to the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus.
caption: 1 Peter 2:7-12; 2:12-17 in Papyrus Bodmer VII-IX
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