File:2nd century Hebrew decalogue.jpg

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English: The w:Nash Papyrus, a collection of four papyrus fragments acquired in Egypt by W. L. Nash and first described by Stanley A. Cook in 1903. The fragments were the oldest Hebrew fragments known at that time which contained a portion of the biblical pre-Masoretic text, specifically the Ten Commandments and the w:Shema Yisrael prayer. The order the commandments listed in the Nash papyrus differs from that of the w:Hebrew Bible and w:Septuagint. See David Noel Freedman, The Nine Commandments (Doubleday, 2000) p.87. Though dated by Cook to the 2nd century, subsequent reappraisals have pushed the date back to the 2nd century BC. In addition to biblical text, it also exhibits a few unique readings. The papyrus was probably copied from a liturgical work.

Date

Second or first century BC

Source

Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, Volume 25 (January-December 1903), p. 56

Author

Unknown author

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	19:41, 30 January 2012	832 × 1,348 (303 KB)	Lindert	slightly rotated, adjusted brightness
	23:43, 29 January 2012	846 × 1,362 (342 KB)	Lindert	higher resolution
	20:26, 23 November 2011	271 × 470 (41 KB)	Luxo	Reverted to version as of 07:25, 10 November 2005
	14:02, 5 November 2011	464 × 271 (40 KB)	Rotatebot	Bot: Image rotated by 90°
	07:25, 10 November 2005	271 × 470 (41 KB)	Sheynhertz-Unbayg~commonswiki	{{PD}} {{JewishEncyclopedia}}
	08:43, 17 September 2005	271 × 490 (40 KB)	Tgr	Possibly the earliest manuscript of decalogue (Second Century?), containing variations from the Masoretic Text. Probably the oldest example of square characters in a Hebrew manuscript. (From "Transactions of Society of Biblical Archeology.") Sou