Biblical manuscript
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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 to huge p
A page from the Aleppo Codex, Deuteronomy
Folio 41v from Codex Alexandrinus contains the Gospel of Luke with decorative tailpiece.
The beginning of the Gospel of Mark from the Book of Durrow
A page from the Sinope Gospels. The miniature at the bottom shows Jesus healing the blind.
Dead Sea Scrolls
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The Dead Sea Scrolls, which mostly consist of the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish biblical manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered over a period of ten years,
Biblical manuscript
…Aleppo Codex (c. 920 CE) and Leningrad Codex (c. 1008 CE) were once the oldest known manuscripts of the Tanakh in Hebrew. In 1947, the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran pushed the manuscript history of the Tanakh back a millennium from such codices. Before this discovery, the earliest extant manuscripts of…
Caves at Qumran
Qumran cave 4, where ninety per cent of the scrolls were found
A view of the Dead Sea from a cave at Qumran in which some of the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered
The Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) contains almost the whole Book of Isaiah.