And the end of it has the list of manuscripts. The second PDF has the latter half of the book which is chapter 12 onwards, which is what is relevant to you. While I can't give you a count, I can show you the full list that Ginsberg lists, and you can get the ideaĪs mentioned at the link i gave, the book is split into two PDFs. Here Ginsberg is referring to the earlier 916CE text that only contains the latter prophets. Note that St Petersberg codex can be ambiguous as it may refer to the Leningrad Codex, or the earlier 916CE text that only contains the latter prophets. The answer at this link by me, What manuscript(s) does BHS get Joshua 21:36-37 from? has some screenshots of Ginsberg's work showing some of the list of manuscripts it reviews, and links to where you can download it. It was published before the Aleppo Codex became widely available, and of course before the dead sea scrolls were discovered. and another work probably examines them also, Variae lectiones Veteris Testamenti ex immensa mss. The Greek tradition was deemed most valuable for purging the Old Testament of antiChristian falsifications allegedly introduced by the Jewish Sages into the forerunner of the masoretic text. Part two describes in detail the background of the modern versions that the HOTTP took into account in its work. Textual criticism aimed at proving that the wording of the Greek Bible was the exclusively legitimate verbalization of the divine message. Michaelis and presents the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project and its goals. Those manuscripts have been examined by C.D. Part one surveys the history of OT textual criticism from its origins to J. We have the Aleppo Codex, and the Leningrad Codex.īesides those, there are a loads of manuscripts that aren't a complete OT, though no doubt taken together form a complete OT many times over. I'm not sure re an exact count, but the oldest would be the dead sea scrollsĪnything complete or near complete is much later like 900CE onwards. Cambridge holds nearly 200.000 of them in present day, but it also remains unclear how many of them are Old Testament manuscripts.Īny help or answer would be greatly appreciated. His library is called the second Firkovich collection, and it contains many Biblical manuscripts, but I can't make out whether all 17.000 manuscripts mentioned are Biblical or how many of them are Old Testament manuscripts.Īnother collection is the Cairo Geniza collection, which consisted of 300.000 manuscripts before being dispersed. I also came across the library of a man named Abraham Firkovich, who apparently managed to obtain at least 1.300 Samaritan manuscripts of the Pentateuch, the first 5 books of the Bible. Wikipedia lists that there are about 2000 manuscripts of the Septuagint version of the Old Testament today. In the process you will gain an appreciation for the vast work that has been accomplished in preserving the text of Scripture and find a renewed confidence in its reliability.When looking into this, the closest I got to an answer is that the Masoretes were great copyists, but that they also had a way of disposing of older manuscripts, through the process of burial, and that this is the reason there supposedly aren't many preserved manuscripts of the Old Testament. Wegner gives you an overview of the history and methods, aims and results of textual criticism. In plain language and with ample illustration, Paul D. But if you are one of those interested in a general understanding of textual criticism, this book introduces you to textual criticism of the whole Bible-the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament. Epp, Decision Points in New Testament Textual Criticism, 3739, The Significance of the Papyri For Determining the Nature of the New Testament Text in the Second Century: A Dynamic View of Textual Transmission, in Epp and Fee, Studies in the Theory and Method, 27497. That is why nearly every book on the subject focuses on the textual criticism of either the Old or New Testament. See, for example, Aland and Aland, Text of the New Testament, 31737 Eldon J. In fact, the task of textual criticism is so daunting and detailed that it is divided between Old Testament textual critics and New Testament textual critics. Sorting out the errors and determining the original wording is the task of textual criticism. And despite the most careful and painstaking efforts of scribes and publishers down through the centuries, errors of one sort or another have crept in and have been reproduced. The Bible has been on a long historical journey since its original composition.
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