Keywords: 2nd century Hebrew decalogue.jpg Hebrew fragments known at that time which contained a portion of the biblical pre-Masoretic text specifically the Ten Commandments and the w Shema Yisrael prayer The order the commandments listed in the Nash papyrus differs from that of the w Hebrew Bible and w Septuagint See David Noel Freedman The Nine Commandments Doubleday 2000 p 87 Though dated by Cook to the 2nd century subsequent reappraisals have pushed the date back to the 2nd century BC In addition to biblical text it also exhibits a few unique readings The papyrus was probably copied from a liturgical work Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology Volume 25 January-December 1903 p 56 Author Second or first century BC pd-art-100 Nash Papyrus Ten Commandments Egypt in the 2nd century Ten Commandments in Hebrew |