Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>]

Hi,

this is a quick and off the cuff response but working from memory and  
to the best of my knowledge the main ones are 117 fragments of the  
Fouad collection.

Basically speaking, you can tell the old ones because they contain the  
tetragrammaton in square hebrew characters. However, it is uncertain  
at which point the copyists started replacing with kyrios because  
Jerome claims to have had access to Greek MSS containing the name as  
late as the 4th century.

The NW reference bible lists 9 other minor MSS that contain the name.  
I would start looking there if you don't get any better answers from  
the list members. I don't have a copy to hand so can't help much  
further.

Anyway, I hope this was helpful. Let me know if you get a better  
answer. I'm interested as well.

Also, one thing you may be interested in knowing is that the Greek  
monasteries in Athos have libraries of thousands of uncatalogued MSS.  
I know because I was there. That may be a place to look if you are  
genuinely interested but getting access to their libraries is not easy.

James Christian



Quoting Roberto Farfan <refp AT hotmail.com>:

> Hello Everybody,
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> I wonder if you can help me informing me about the LXX manuscripts   
> founded that belong before Jesus time.
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> I would like to know how many manuscripts of the LXX we have that   
> are dated BC.
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> For example, until now I know there is Génesis and Deuteronomio in   
> koinè, from LXX, dated 1 a.E.C. from the Fuad coleccion (inv. 266).
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> What else do you know??
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> Best Regards,
>
> Roberto Emilo
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