Indeed - fragments or "scraps" as I mentioned before. Nothing to compare with the complete scrolls of biblical books in Hebrew found at Qumran.3. The Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) are discovered manuscripts from
Qumran, which date from around 168 BC to about 68 AD.[4]
4. So LXX is older than the DSS by about 100 years.
Date of oldest MSS: Large parts of the Hebrew Bible are preserved in the
DSS. Only a few scraps of the LXX are preserved; the earliest MSS of
substantial parts of the LXX are 4th-5th centuries CE if I remember rightly.
So the Hebrew text clearly wins on both comparisons of age, for what
it's worth.
The oldest witnesses to the LXX include a 2nd century BC fragments of Leviticus and Deuteronomy (Rahlfs nos. 801, 819, and 957), and 1st century BC fragments of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and the Minor Prophets (Rahlfs nos. 802, 803, 805, 848, 942, and 943).
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