DSS Text and Variants Flashcards
Wrote Masoretic Text
Masoretes
Time of Masoretic Text
600-1000 CE
Places of Masoretic Text
Babylon, Tiberius, Greater Palestine
Major Codexes of MT
Leningrad & Aleppo (1000 CE Tiberius)
What books included in MT
39 Books of Old Testament
What books in LXX
39 + Apocrypha
King that commissioned LXX
Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt
Reign of King that commissioned LXX
285-247 BCE
Letter supposedly sent for LXX
Letter of Aristeas
Period LXX was translated
3rd Century BCE (2nd Temple)
Older capital letter script
Unicial Script (Majuscule Script)
Dates from Unicial Script
4th-8th AD
Carolingian Renaissance/Earlier smaller letter script
Minuscule Script
Dates from Minuscule Script
800 CE & later
Major Uncial Manuscripts
- Vaticanus (B)
- Sinaiticus (alep) (Constantine)
- Both 4th century CE