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Manuscript
Ketef Hinnom Silver Scrolls
scroll
- Date
- c. 600 BCE
- Language
- Biblical Hebrew,Paleo-Hebrew
- Material
- Silver
- Provenance
- Ketef Hinnom, Jerusalem
- Contents
- Priestly Blessing (Numbers 6:24–26)
- Notes
- Oldest known biblical text of any kind.
Significance
The earliest surviving fragment of biblical text, predating the Dead Sea Scrolls by four centuries.