Cambridge, University Library Taylor-Schechter Collection 12

The siglum Taylor-Schechter 12.182 (T-S 12.182; also referenced as TM nr. 62326;

LDAB The Leuven Database of Ancient Books (LDAB) is a resource for all ancient written literary manuscripts, from 500 BC to AD 800. It currently lists more than 16.000 Greek, Latin, Coptic, Syriac and Demotic literary texts. It is said that it "attempts ...

id: 3490; Rahlfs 2005) designates a manuscript written on parchment in

codex The codex (plural codices ) was the historical ancestor of the modern book. Instead of being composed of sheets of paper, it used sheets of vellum, papyrus, or other materials. The term ''codex'' is often used for ancient manuscript books, with ...

form. This is a palimpsest of a copy of Origen's work called the

Hexapla ''Hexapla'' ( grc, Ἑξαπλᾶ, "sixfold") is the term for a critical edition of the Hebrew Bible in six versions, four of them translated into Greek, preserved only in fragments. It was an immense and complex word-for-word comparison of the ...

. The manuscript is dated to 7th-century AD, and is the oldest of the hexapla manuscripts. The hexapla was completed before 240 CE.

History

The fragments comes from Egypt, were published by C. Taylor in his work Hebrew-Greek Cairo Genizah Palimpsests, Cambridge, 1900, pp. 54–65.

Description

This is palimpsest in codex form written on parchment. It contains Psalms 22 (LXX 21): 15-18 fol. A recto, 19-24 and 25-28 fol. B verso, and the middle columns, 2-5 columns of the Hexapla.

Tetragrammaton ΠΙΠΙ

The manuscript is written in koine Greek, and the divine name is notable, it contains the tetragrammaton in Greek characters "Pipi" (). According to Jerome, some septuagint manuscripts had the

Divine Name The Tetragrammaton (; ), or Tetragram, is the four-letter Hebrew theonym (transliterated as YHWH), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible. The four letters, written and read from right to left (in Hebrew), are ''yodh'', '' he'', ''waw'', and '' ...

written in this way. Jerome mentions that some Greek manuscripts contain the Hebrew letters YHWH (), he also comments that this Hebrew could mislead some Greek readers to read YHWH as "Pipi" (ΠΙΠΙ), since the letters YHWH (read right to left) look like " Pi Iota Pi Iota" (read left to right) in Greek.Letter 25 to Marcellus According to Pavlos D. Vasileiadis and Nehemiah Gordon, the manuscript has "the nomen sacrum with a supralinear

Hebrew yod Yodh (also spelled jodh, yod, or jod) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Yōd /𐤉, Hebrew Yōd , Aramaic Yod , Syriac Yōḏ ܝ, and Arabic . Its sound value is in all languages for which it is used; in many la ...

for יהוה (YHWH), followed by . This transitional combination represents the Tetragrammaton in Ps 22:20 XX 21:20in three separate ways in the Septuagint column of Origen’s Hexapla, preserved in a palimpsest in the Cairo Genizah."

Actual location

Today it is kept at the Library of the University of Cambridge as a part of the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah Collection (Cambridge University Library T-S 12.182).

References

Sources

External links

Cambridge University Library T-S 12.182 on Cambridge Digital Library'The oldest fragment of Origen's Hexapla: T-S 12.182', Genizah Research Unit's Fragment of the Month
*{{cite web, title=The Hexapla, publisher=Artefacts of Ancient Judaism, url=http://artefacts.lib.cam.ac.uk/show.html#hexapla, access-date=2015-03-09, url-status=dead, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416161134/http://artefacts.lib.cam.ac.uk/show.html#hexapla, archive-date=2015-04-16 A description of T-S 12.182
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7th-century biblical manuscripts Manuscripts in Cambridge Manuscripts from the Cairo Geniza Works by Origen