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I am trying to make a chart and I would like a little help. It's kind of complicated but here goes; I want to know what the oldest (surviving) complete manuscripts there are of the OT, NT, or both, in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. I would like the names of the manuscripts and the year they were written.

In addition I would like to know the names of any and all surviving fragments of these (written prior to the above) with the year they were written.

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Hi Shaggy, came up with these
The two oldest Complete New Testament Manuscripts Codex Sinaiticus
Dates from the mid fourth century and originally included both Old and New Testaments plus the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas, all in Greek. Sin. was found in a monastery library on the slopes of Mount Sinai in 1859 and brought to St. Petersburg. In 1933 it was sold to the British Museum in London where it currently resides.
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The oldest surviving manuscript of the complete Bible is the Codex Leningradensis which dates to 1008 AD.
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All of the original copies of the gospels have been lost. We must rely upon hand-written copies which are an unknown number of replications removed from the originals. The oldest known surviving part of a gospel dates from about 125 CE. It consists of a few passages from an unknown gospel. Another ancient manuscript, a portion of the Gospel of John, is also dated to about 125 CE. Remaining gospel manuscripts date to the third century CE or later.
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The Codex Alexandrinus (Figure 3) is one of the three earliest and most important manuscripts of the whole Bible in Greek, the others being the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Vaticanus in Rome. Written in the first half of the fifth century, it preserves one of the best texts of Deuteronomy and Revelation, and is the oldest manuscript of the second and third books of Maccabees.
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The original manuscripts for the OT. Written between 1450 BC and 400 BC. Written in archaic Hebrew, gradually changed to modern square script Hebrew after 400 BC, and still used to this day. Around 500 AD the Masoretes developed a system of vowel and accents to punctuate the text, they also standardised the text and content, preparing it for printing much later (Psalter 1477, Full OT 1488). The oldest surviving material was the Masoretic from the 9C, until the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947 from 2-1C BC
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this last one you might find useful the authors aims and yours are similar, good luck! Smile
 
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