P46
Papyrus 46 (a Pauline codex — Romans through Hebrews)
The letters are Paul’s; the copyist’s name is unknown
Most of Paul, in one binding, from the second or third century. The Pastorals and Philemon are missing, and nobody can say whether they were ever there.
- Catch rate
- 12 / 255
- Base research
- 158
- Stat total
- 290
Base stats
Every stat is a checkable fact about the actual book, not a designer's mood. Bars are drawn against the highest value any book reaches.
Why these numbers
The game's own explanation, as a reader sees it in the backpack.
Eighty-six leaves of an original hundred and four. This is not a fragment — it is most of a book, and it is the largest surviving Stamina of any manuscript in the game.
Romans, both Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians and Hebrews, in one binding. It can quote the creed, the letter and the sermon without reaching for anything else.
An enormous, careful, early witness — and its date is still argued, from as early as c. 125 to as late as c. 225. That open question is the only thing keeping its Defend off the top.
Every textual critic alive knows this codex. It takes the floor faster than any other manuscript here.
Cited for this book
Split today between the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin and the University of Michigan. Its date is genuinely open: a minority argue c. 125–150, most place it c. 175–225. Either way it is the earliest substantial witness to Ephesians we have — and it copies Hebrews straight in among Paul’s letters, which is the earliest physical evidence of how that book was filed.
Moves learned
By levelling up. A book that develops keeps what it knew and learns the rest on its new schedule.
| Lv | Move | Type | Cat. | Pwr | Acc | PP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delivered and Received | History | Argument | 72 | 100% | 10 |
| 1 | Random Verse | Bible | Argument | 10 | 100% | 30 |
| 1 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 12 |
| 32 | Nothing Can Separate | Soteriology | Argument | 76 | 100% | 10 |
| 38 | Spoken by His Son | Christology | Argument | 74 | 100% | 10 |