The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_Papyrus" class="extiw" title="w:Nash Papyrus">w:Nash Papyrus</a>, a collection of four papyrus fragments acquired in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=W._L._Nash&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="W. L. Nash (page does not exist)">W. L. Nash</a> and first described by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stanley_A._Cook&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Stanley A. Cook (page does not exist)">Stanley A. Cook</a> in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/1903" title="1903">1903</a>. The fragments were the oldest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" class="extiw" title="w:Hebrew language">Hebrew</a> fragments known at that time which contained a portion of the biblical pre-<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Masoretic_text&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Masoretic text (page does not exist)">Masoretic text</a>, specifically the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments" title="Ten Commandments">Ten Commandments</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shema_Yisrael" class="extiw" title="w:Shema Yisrael">w:Shema Yisrael</a> prayer. The order the commandments listed in the Nash papyrus differs from that of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" class="extiw" title="w:Hebrew Bible">w:Hebrew Bible</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint" class="extiw" title="w:Septuagint">w:Septuagint</a>. See <i>David Noel Freedman, </i>The Nine Commandments<i> (Doubleday, 2000) p.87</i>. 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.
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Second or first century BC
Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, Volume 25 (January-December 1903), p. 56