LibGuides: Ancient Biblical Manuscripts Online: Online Manuscripts for BHS

Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia Online Manuscripts

Here you will find links to manuscripts referenced in the BHS Critical Apparatus. These are organized according to Gleason A. Archer's Survey of Old Testament Introduction, Rev. and Exp. ed., pg 38. If no link is present, we have yet to discover one. Please email Jacob Gucker if you would like to submit a link.

Pre-Christian Hebrew Mss.

Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
Format: High resolution images with integrated viewer.
"The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library offers an exceptional encounter with antiquity. Using the World's most advanced imaging technology, the Digital Library preserves thousands of scroll fragments, including the oldest known copies of biblical texts, now accessible to the public for the first time."
The Nash Papyrus
Format: High resolution image with integrated viewer
Provided by Cambridge Digital Library

Post-Christian Hebrew Mss.

Codex Cairensis
Format: Black and white facsimile.
Provided by Seforim Online
The Aleppo Codex
Format: High resolution images with integrated viewer. Site is devoted to viewing the manuscript.
Leningrad Codex
Format: Electronic transcription in a database.
Provided by the J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research.
Note: Requires the SBL Hebrew Font
The Samaritan Pentateuch
Format: High Resolution Images with integrated viewer.
Provided by Cambridge Digital Library
Bomberg Old Testament
Format: Black and white facsimile.
Found at the Internet Archive.

The Greek Versions

Codex Sinaiticus
Format: High resolution Images with integrated viewer.
"Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament."
Codex Ephraemi Syri Rescriptus
Format: High resolution images with integrated viewer.
Provided by the National Library of France.
Rylands Papyrus 458
Format: High resolution image with integrated viewer.
Provided by John Rylands University Library

Aramaic Targums

Targumic Manuscripts at Cambridge Digital Library
Format: High resolution images with integrated viewer.
Provided by Cambridge Digital Libraries
Contains a number of Aramaic Targum manuscript fragments.
Targum Manuscript Database
Format: Catalogue of Library holdings for Targumic manuscripts.
Provided by the Targum Institute.

Latin Versions

Syriac Versions

Subject Guide

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