I Samuel - '𐤔𐤌𐤅𐤀𐤋 𐤀

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Canonical Versions

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Masoretic Text of I Samuel - in Hebrew	שמואל א' (לפי נוסח חמסורה) מקור: מִקְרָא עַל־פִּי הַמָּסוֹרָה	Leningrad Codex Aleppo Codex
Targum Jonathan on I Samuel - in Jewish Aramaic	תרגום יונתן על שמואל א' מקור: מקראות גדולות של ספריא combined critical edition מקור: ארמיטה	Codex Reuchlinianus 3, 1105 CE [earliest print edition: Leiria, 1494 CE (P: 2)]
Peshitta I Samuel - in Syriac Aramaic	ܐ. ܫܡܘܐܝܠ (ܐ. ܡܠܟ̈ܐ) ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה	Codex Ambrosianus
Ethiopic First Kings (I Samuel) - in Ge'ez	መጽሐፈ ፡ ነገሥት ፡ ቀዳማዊ ። ዐይን: Augustus Dillman Transcription of I Samuel 2:1-10 (from THEOT) [Song of Hana, Biblical]	"Pre-Solomonic" ms.: EMML 6940 (12th-13th c.) [p: 3] Likely typical "early" ms.: Davies Bizan 1 (16th c.) [p: 176] Likely typical "standardized" mss.: Gunda Gunde 106 (1682-1706) [p: 3]; EMIP 754 (18th c.) [p: 66]; EMML 819 (18th c.) [p: 6]; EMML 38 (18th c.) [p: 4] Likely typical "modern" mss.: EMIP 752 (19th c. confirmed typical ms. for I Samuel 2:1-10) [p: 50] ; IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible) (1934) [p: 122v] Potential "Outlier" mss.: Cambridge Ms. 1570 (translated by Jacob the Israelite) (1588); D'Abbadie 35 (17th c.); Davies Axum Zion 3 (1664) [p: 320]
Septuagint First Kings (I Samuel) - in Koine Greek	Βασιλειών Α': Rahlfs' edition πηγή: nocr Swete's edition πηγή: biblehub (these represent an "Old Greek" recension)	Codex Vaticanus (p: 309) Codex Alexandrinus
Vulgate I Samuel - in Latin	samuhel I fons: vulgate.org	Codex Gigas

Non-canonical versions

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Dead Sea Scrolls versions of I Samuel - in Hebrew	ספר שמואל א': נוסחי מגילות ים המלח מקור: הדרך ליהוה	All Dead Sea Scrolls Samuel fragments
Early Palestinian Christian versions of I Samuel - in "Syriac" Aramaic	general fragments, additional fragment ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה
Septuagint-based Syriac versions of First Kings (I Samuel) - Syriac Aramaic -- (SHOW/HIDE)
Syro-Hexaplar (Septuagint) First Kings (I Samuel) (only fragments extant)	ܐ. ܡܠܟ̈ܐ: ch. 2, 16, 20 ܡܒܘܥܐ: Willem Baars: New Syro-Hexaplaric texts. Only previews available at this link. ch. 7, 20 ܡܒܘܥܐ: M.H. Gottstein: Neue Syrohexaplafragmente [doc. pp. 14-18]
Jacob of Edessa's revision of First Kings (I Samuel) (a combination of the Syro-Hexapla and the Peshitta)	ܟܬܒܐ ܩܕܡܝܐ ܕܡܵܠܟܘܬܐ ܡܒܘܥܐ: Alison Salvesen: "The Books of Samuel in the Syriac Version of Jacob of Edessa" (p. 1) [the full text is not available at this link.] (two major lacunae in the extant text)	BL Add. Ms. 14429 (not digitised)
Vetus Latina ("Old Latin") I Samuel - in Latin	primus samuelis (primum regum) fons: Petri Sabatier
Additional Jewish Targumim: Tosefta to Targum I Samuel - in Jewish Aramaic	תוספתא לתרגום שמואל א' מקור: ארמיטה

Related quasi-biblical texts

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Dead Sea Scrolls Texts Closely Related to Samuel - in Hebrew -- (SHOW/HIDE)
Vision of Samuel from Qumran - in Hebrew	מגילת חזון שמואל מקור: : מאגרים	4Q160 = 4Q Vision of Samuel
Apocryphon on Samuel-Kings from Qumran - in Hebrew	מגילת אפוקריפון שמואל-מלכים מקור: : מאגרים	6Q9 = 6Q pap. Apocryphon on Samuel-Kings

Other significantly related biblical texts

  Books of Samuel/Kings:

•     II Samuel
•     I Kings
•     II Kings

Odes or Canticles: presents liturgical recensions of I Samuel ch. 2

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