Nash Papyrus
Overview
A small papyrus sheet acquired in Egypt by the collector W. L. Nash and published in 1903, containing the Ten Commandments followed by the Shema. Usually dated to the 2nd or 1st century BCE, it was the oldest known Hebrew biblical text until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947. The order of its commandments matches the Greek Septuagint, and scholars think it was a liturgical or devotional text rather than part of a Torah scroll.
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