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Manuscript

Nash Papyrus

papyrus
Date
c. 150–100 BCE
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.

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