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TM 113846 / LDAB 113846 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/113846

also known as Nash Papyrus

TM Gallery info The Nash Papyrus (TM 113846) is a 2nd century BC Hebrew papyrus from Egypt with a copy of the Ten Commandments and the Shema Yisrael prayer. It was acquired in Egypt in 1898 by W.L. Nash, the secretary of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, who donated it to the Cambridge Library where it still is today. The document is important for it divergence from the canonical Masoretic text.

Metadata

Date: 2nd - 1st century BC: BC 199 - 1

Provenance: Egypt - Egypt (N/AThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Hebrew

Material: papyrus

Book form: sheet

Content (beta!): literary text, Old Testament: ten commandments (decalogue) (= Exodus 20.2-17 combined with Deuteronomium 5.6-21) and shema

Authors / works: Testamentum vetus (Hebrew), Exodus: 20.2-17 (epitomized)
Testamentum vetus (Hebrew), Deuteronomium: 5.6-21 (epitomized)

Culture & genre: religion — liturgy, prayer (religion: jewish)

Recto/Verso: Ro

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM, otherother [2]

Publications

Les papyrus en caractères hébraïques trouvés en Egypte p. 26-27 (Sirat, Colette - 1985)
&Birnbaum, The Hebrew scripts 1 151 col. 209-213 (Birnbaum, Solomon Asher - 1954) [default]

∙CPJ 4 609 (Hacham, Noah - 2020)

∙Jewish Quarterly Review 15 (1903), p. 392-408 (Burkitt, Francis Crawford - 1903)

Photo: Sirat, Les papyrus en caractères hébraïques, pl. 1

Collections

∙Aylesbury, Private collection Nash number unknown (previous)
∙Cambridge, University Library Ms. Or. 233 (previous)

present location unknown

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