The Book in the order it was written
TimelineContentsSection X. Discoveries That Illuminate the Text · 1896-1979

The Nash Papyrus (Acquired 1898-1903)

described in the volume, no text in the public-domain sources

A single damaged sheet from Egypt, dated to roughly 150-100 BCE, carrying the Ten Commandments followed immediately by the Shema. Until the Dead Sea discoveries it was the oldest known Hebrew biblical manuscript by a wide margin. Its Decalogue mixes the Exodus and Deuteronomy wordings and its sequence matches a liturgical order attested in rabbinic sources, so it is usually taken to be a devotional or teaching text rather than a scroll of scripture. Both passages it preserves follow.

No text was available from a public-domain source, so this work is described rather than printed. The accuracy report says why.