| Manuscripts |
Manuscript Date |
Contents |
Comments |
| Abisha Scroll |
1400 BCE (?) |
Torah |
This scroll of the Samaritan Pentetuch is proported to be written by Aaron's son but this cannot be substatiated. |
| Dead Sea Scrolls |
200 BCE - 70 CE |
Torah, Prophets, Writings, Pseudopigrapha, Sect and Secular writings |
Every book of the Tenach/Old Testament has been found, at least in part, with the exception of the book of Ester. Other books were discovered as well including secular writings and some psuedopigrapha. |
| Cairo Geniza Fragments |
500 CE - 800 CE |
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| Cairo Codex |
895 CE |
Prophets, Writings |
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| Leningrad Codex |
916 CE |
Prophets |
One of the Ben Asher Masoretic manuscripts |
| Aleppo Codex |
930 CE |
Torah, Prophets, Writings |
One of the Ben Asher Masoretic manuscripts; Source for the Hebrew University Bible;source for Maimonides Torah Scrolls; Portions of the codex destroyed in fire in 1948 |
| British Museum Codex |
950 CE |
Torah (incomplete) |
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| Leningrad Codex |
1008 CE |
Torah, Prophets, Writings |
One of the Ben Asher Masoretic manuscripts |
| Kitag Gi-Hulaf |
before 1050 CE |
Torah, Prophets, Writings |
The earliest extant attempt at collating the differences between the Ben Asher and Ben Naphtali Masoretic traditions was made by Mishael ben Uzziel |
| ? |
? |
Torah, Prophets, Writings |
From the Ben Chayyim Tradition |
| Reuchlin Codex |
1105 CE |
Prophets |
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| Samaritan Pentetuch |
1211 CE |
Torah |
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| First Rabbinic Bible |
1516 CE |
Torah, Prophets, Writings |
Composed by Daniel Bomberg; second edition composed by converted Rabbi Abraham Ben Chayyim; The KJV is based on this text. |
| Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia |
1906 CE |
Torah, Prophets, Writings |
Composed by Rudolph Kittel and revised in 1912; Based on the Ben Chayyim text. Revised again in 1936 but based on the Codex Leningrad; This was then revised in 1966. |
