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  2. Masoretic Text - Wikipedia

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    The oldest manuscript fragments of the final Masoretic Text, including vocalications and the masorah, date from around the 9th century. [ b ] The oldest-known complete copy, the Leningrad Codex , dates from the early 11th century.

  3. List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    It likely dates to between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the major Masoretic texts [30] En-Gedi Scroll , fragment of Hebrew parchment dated to 2nd century CE, discovered in 1970 containing portions of the first 2 chapters of Leviticus [ 31 ]

  4. Dating the Bible - Wikipedia

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    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 of a Greek translation known as the Septuagint. The oldest extant manuscripts of the vocalized Masoretic Text date to the 9th century CE. [1]

  5. Leningrad Codex - Wikipedia

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    The biblical text as found in the codex contains the Hebrew letter-text along with Tiberian vowels and cantillation signs. In addition, there are masoretic notes in the margins. There are also various technical supplements dealing with textual and linguistic details, many of which are painted in geometrical forms.

  6. Chronology of the Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Masoretic Text is the basis of modern Jewish and Christian bibles. While difficulties with biblical texts make it impossible to reach sure conclusions, perhaps the most widely held hypothesis is that it embodies an overall scheme of 4,000 years (a "great year") taking the re-dedication of the Temple by the Maccabees in 164 BCE as its end-point. [4]

  7. Ussher chronology - Wikipedia

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    Ussher used the chronology found in the Masoretic text instead of the alternative chronologies found in the Septuagint and Samaritan Pentateuch. Ussher fixed this period as 2082 years, from 4004 to 1922 BC. "Abraham's migration to Solomon's temple."

  8. Biblical literalist chronology - Wikipedia

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    The Masoretic text, which lacks the 650 years of the Septuagint, is the text used by most modern Bibles. There is no consensus of which is right, however, without the additional 650 years in the Septuagint, according to Egyptologists [ 3 ] the great Pyramids of Giza would pre-date the Flood (yet show no signs of water erosion) and provide no ...

  9. Masoretes - Wikipedia

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    The Masoretes (Hebrew: בַּעֲלֵי הַמָּסוֹרָה, romanized: Baʿălēy Hammāsōrā, lit. 'Masters of the Tradition') were groups of Jewish scribe-scholars who worked from around the end of the 5th through 10th centuries CE, [1] [2] based primarily in the Jewish centers of the Levant (e.g. Tiberias and Jerusalem) and Mesopotamia (e.g. Sura and Nehardea). [3]