The Nash Papyrus
The Ten Commandments and the Shema were being copied on papyrus in the second century BC.
Außerbiblisch genanntHandschrift2nd century BC
A single sheet carrying the Ten Commandments and the Shema. Until 1947 it was the oldest known Hebrew biblical manuscript by a margin of a thousand years, and the palaeographic work done on it is what allowed the Dead Sea Scrolls to be dated so quickly when they appeared.
Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD.
- Gefunden
- Egypt, 1898 — Acquired by Walter Llewellyn Nash
- Heute in
- Cambridge University Library
- Sprache
- Hebrew
- Wie es zu uns kam
- Ausgegraben oder noch dort stehend, wo es errichtet wurde.
Was er zeigt
It is a liturgical or devotional sheet rather than a scroll of a biblical book, and its text mixes the Exodus and Deuteronomy versions.
Wie Historiker es nutzen
A landmark in Hebrew palaeography; the dating framework built on it is still in use.
In der Schrift
Quellen
- Albright, "A Biblical Fragment from the Maccabaean Age", JBL 56 (1937)
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