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What are some of the oldest passages in the Hebrew Bible? - Reddit

I've seen some scholars date portions of Genesis 49, 1 Samuel 4, Psalm 82, Deuteronomy 32:8 and the Song of the Well in Numbers 21 fairly early.

The oldest passages that I know of are The Song of the Sea in Exodus 15 and the Song of Deborah (Judges 5) which use pretty archaic Hebrew.

List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts - Wikipedia

The oldest complete Torah scroll still in use has been carbon-dated to around 1250 and is owned by the Jewish community of the northern Italian town of Biella.

The Earliest Scriptures - Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art

The Hebrew Bible—the thirty-nine books of the Torah, Nevi'im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings)—was formed over a number of centuries. Between 500 and 900 ...

What Is the Oldest Hebrew Bible? - Biblical Archaeology Society

The Dead Sea Scrolls are fragments of the oldest Hebrew Bible text, while the Aleppo Codex and the Leningrad Codex are the oldest complete versions.

The Three Oldest Biblical Texts - Bible Archaeology Report

Written in Hebrew and dating to the second century B.C. it was the oldest known biblical text prior to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

World's earliest most complete Hebrew Bible coming to SMU

DALLAS (SMU) – A rare 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible will be exhibited to the public at SMU's Bridwell Library April 18-20, before coming up to ...

What Are the Oldest Copies of the Bible? - TheCollector

The Oldest complete copy of the Old Testament Hebrew Bible is called the Codex Sassoon, and was compiled sometime in the 1000s-1100s CE. It has ...

Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia

The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh also known in Hebrew as Miqra is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, ...

9 Oldest Copies of the Torah in the World

The word Torah can mean many different things, but in general it refers to the first five books of the Jewish Bible, which is known as the Pentateuch.

What Is the Oldest Bible? - Bible Odyssey

However, its Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible are not the oldest witnesses we have to the Hebrew/Aramaic scriptures. The Dead Sea Scrolls (circa 250 ...

Rare display: World's oldest Hebrew Bible goes on show in Israel

One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million ...

Who Wrote the Torah? - Ideas | Institute for Advanced Study

This manuscript of the Hebrew Bible dates to the year 1008 C.E., so it is a medieval text, but it is the oldest complete textual witness to the Pentateuch. This ...

How Old is the Hebrew Bible? - Yale University Press

For traditionalists, the age of a book is the age of its author – Moses for the Pentateuch, David for the Psalms, Solomon for the Song of Songs, ...

World's oldest Hebrew Bible sells for a record-breaking $38.1 million

A rare find ... The Codex Sassoon is believed to be the very first codex, or manuscript in book form, of the Hebrew Bible. In the centuries prior to its writing ...

The 24 Books of the Hebrew Bible - Torah.org

In their simplest form, the twenty-four books of the Jewish Bible – the Tanach – present a history of the first 3500 years from creation until the building ...

What Are the Earliest Versions and Translations of the Bible?

At first, just the Torah was translated, in the third century B.C.E.; the rest of the biblical books were translated later. The whole Hebrew Bible was likely ...

When was the Old Testament Written? - The Gospel Coalition

The Law. Parts of 'the Law' or 'Pentateuch' (the first five books, from Genesis to Deuteronomy) are very ancient. Jewish tradition in ...

Oldest complete Hebrew Bible expected to break auction records

Before the first codices (manuscripts in book form) of the Hebrew Bible, there existed only portions or sections of biblical texts in scroll ...

World's oldest, nearly complete Hebrew bible up for auction | AFP

The earliest and most complete Hebrew Bible, dating to the late ninth to early tenth century, is to be auctioned at Sotheby's in New York.