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A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible.Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see Tefillin) to huge polyglot codices (multi-lingual books) containing both the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the New Testament, as well as extracanonical works.
As a result, the lapse of time between the original manuscripts and their surviving copies is much longer than in the case of the New Testament manuscripts. The first list of the Old Testament manuscripts in Hebrew, made by Benjamin Kennicott (1718–1783) and published by Oxford in two volumes in 1776 and 1780, listed 615 manuscripts from ...
Not all of the manuscripts are simply New Testament texts: 𝔓 59, 𝔓 60, 𝔓 63, 𝔓 80 are texts with commentaries; 𝔓 2, 𝔓 3, and 𝔓 44 are lectionaries; 𝔓 50, 𝔓 55, and 𝔓 78 are talismans; and 𝔓 10, 𝔓 12, 𝔓 42, 𝔓 43, 𝔓 62, 𝔓 72, and 𝔓 99 belong to other miscellaneous texts, such as writing scraps ...
The manuscripts that have survived to our times do not transmit the complete New Testament in the Middle Egyptian dialects. One of them, in the Fayumic dialect, contains only John 6:11–15:11 (with gaps). [43] A manuscript with the text-type of the Gospel of John in the Subachmimic dialect is dated to the years 350–375. [44]
The oldest surviving Hebrew Bible manuscripts, the Dead Sea Scrolls, date to c. the 2nd century BCE. Some of these scrolls are presently stored at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. The oldest text of the entire Christian Bible , including the New Testament, is the Codex Sinaiticus dating from the 4th century CE, with its Old Testament a copy ...
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The Codex Vaticanus (The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Vat. gr. 1209), is a manuscript of the Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Old Testament and the majority of the New Testament. It is designated by siglum B or 03 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and as δ 1 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts.
The Codex Sinaiticus (Shelfmark: London, British Library, Add MS 43725), also called the Sinai Bible, is a fourth-century Christian manuscript of a Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Greek Old Testament, including the deuterocanonical books, and the Greek New Testament, with both the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas included.