Titles

Each epistle begins with a title, centered and offset by a number of short dashes. It was the standard practice for Greek bookrolls and codices to include the title and author's name at the end of the work. However, since this is a collection of smaller works, each epistle has its own title inserted at the start of the text (much like how titles were added to individual poems in collections of Greek poetry). The title shown above reads πρὸϲ Ἑβραίουϲ, "to the Hebrews." Clearly it was not necessary to state that this was Paul's letter to the Hebrews, and it is likely that the codex contained a fuller title, such as "The Epistles of Paul" at the end of the codex, which is now lost.

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