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Re: orion Nash Papyrus
I am very greatful to all who answered - and let me summarize the information:
Excluding DSS, the oldest Biblical texts we have are:
1. "Silver Amulet" with a short text from Numbers (priestly blessings),
dated 700BC (in Paleo-Hebrew script).
2. "Nash Papyrus", Decalogue and Shma, dated 1BC (used to paleographically
date DSS, Herodian script)
3. Biblical fragment from Cairo Genizah, dated 5AD (this must be in the
square Babilonian script)
That's pretty sparse. What if we widened the criteria to include any Jewish
literary text, including pseudoepigraphic and apocryphal (but excluding
such things as funerary inscriptions, deeds of sale and marriage,
administrative lists, Uzziah inscription, etc..) - would we then have a
much longer list of manuscripts for the period of, say, up to destruction
of the temple?
Best regards, Asia
At 09:31 AM 10/25/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 04:49:41 +0200
>From: "Naomi G.Cohen" <ngcohen@research.haifa.ac.il>
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>The Nash Papyrus includes not only the according to its Sept. version
>(which has an addition at the beginning), but continues immediately at the
>end with the beginning of the Shema (it is fragmented at the bottom which
>is presumably why only the first two verses are found). This is generally
>accepted as reflecting the statement found in the Mishnah respecting the
>daily recitation of the Decalogue followed by the Shema.
>ngc
>Dr. Naomi G. Cohen
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>At 01:00 PM 24-10-98 GMT, you wrote:
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>>orion-digest Saturday, October 24 1998 Volume 01 : Number 449
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>>Prior to the finding of DSS, the oldest known Biblical manuscript was the
>>Nash papyrus found at the turn of the century, containing the ten
>>commandments.
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>Dr. Naomi G. Cohen
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