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Timeline

The Torah is presented here with the first six books of the Nevi'im. Together they constitute the earliest history of the Abrahamic faith and it peoples.

Monarchic (pre-586 BC) Exilic (586-538 BC) Persian (538-332 BC)
1000 900 800 700 600 500 400 BC
GenesisGen
ExodusExod
LeviticusLev
NumbersNum
DeuteronomyDeut
JoshuaJosh
JudgesJudg
1 Samuel1 Sam
2 Samuel2 Sam
1 Kings1 Kgs
2 Kings2 Kgs
Solomon's Temple builtc. 960 BC Destruction of Jerusalem & First Temple587/586 BC Second Temple completed515 BC

Chapters

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Outline

  1. First address: review of the journey 1:1-4:43
  2. Second address: the great commandment and the Law 4:44-26:19
  3. Blessings, curses, and covenant renewal 27:1-30:20
  4. Moses' final acts, song, and death 31:1-34:12

Manuscript witnesses

Earliest papyri

Nash Papyrus — c. 150-100 BC
A Hebrew papyrus of the Decalogue and the Shema; before Qumran, the oldest known biblical Hebrew manuscript.

Major codices

Leningrad Codex (B19A) — 1008 AD
The oldest complete Masoretic Hebrew Bible and the base text of modern critical editions.

Other witnesses

Dead Sea Scrolls (Qumran) — c. 250 BC - 68 AD
The Qumran biblical manuscripts, the oldest Hebrew and Aramaic witnesses by roughly a millennium.
Samaritan Pentateuch — tradition; oldest mss c. 12th c. AD
The Samaritan community's distinct Hebrew Torah, differing from the Masoretic Text in thousands of readings.

Sources

  1. a Coogan, Michael D. The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, 4th ed. Oxford University Press, 2018.