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Manuscript
Nash Papyrus
papyrus
- Date
- c. 150–100 BCE
- Language
- Biblical Hebrew
- Material
- Papyrus
- Provenance
- Egypt
- Contents
- Decalogue and Shema
- Notes
- Before Qumran, the oldest known Hebrew biblical manuscript.
Significance
For decades the oldest surviving Hebrew biblical text; a liturgical rather than scriptural copy.