Isaiah - 𐤉𐤔𐤏𐤉𐤄𐤅

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Canonical Versions

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Masoretic Text of Isaiah - in Hebrew	ישעיהו מקור: מִקְרָא עַל־פִּי הַמָּסוֹרָה	Leningrad Codex Aleppo Codex
Targum Jonathan on Isaiah - in Jewish Aramaic	תרגום יונתן על ישעיהו מקור: מקראות גדולות של ספריא combined critical edition מקור: ארמיטה	Codex Reuchlinianus 3, 1105 CE
Peshitta Isaiah - in Syriac Aramaic	ܐܫܥܝܐ ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה	Codex Ambrosianus
Ethiopic Isaiah - in Ge'ez	ትንቢተ ፡ ዘኢሳይያስ ፡ ነቢይ ። ዐይን: Johannes Bachmann	Likely typical "early" mss.: EMML 2080 (14th-16th c.) [p: 42]; EAP 704/1/5 (early 15th c.); EMML 1768 (late 15th c.) [p: 79]; EMIP 1029 (15th-16th c.) [p: 132]; EMML 7584 (16th c.) [p: 100]; d'Abbadie 55 (16th c.) Likely typical "standardized" mss.: EMML 7103 (1659) [p: 70]; Gunda Gunde 106 (1682-1706) [p: 102]; EMML 38 (18th c.) [p: 90] Likely typical "modern" ms.: IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible) (1934) [p: 435r] Beta Israel mss. (including one "potential outlier" ms.): d'Abbadie 30 (17th-18th c.); BSB Cod. aethiop. 26 (17th-18th c.) Potential "outlier" text-type: Berlin Peter 42 (15th c.) Potential "Outlier" mss.: Cambridge Ms. 1570 (translated by Jacob the Israelite) (1588); D'Abbadie 35 (17th c.); Unesco 10-4 (late 17th-early 18th c.) [p: 83]; EMML 1917 (early 19th c.) [p: 6]
Septuagint Isaiah - in Koine Greek	Ησαΐας: Rahlfs' edition (a critical text closer to Codex Alexandrinus) πηγή: nocr Swete's edition (follows Codex Vaticanus) πηγή: biblehub Ziegler's edition with critical apparatus	Codex Vaticanus (p: 1002); Codex Alexandrinus. (These two manuscripts represent different recensions here, and Alexandrinus is considered more reliable) Codex Sinaiticus (largely agrees with Alexandrinus here)
Vulgate Isaiah - in Latin	isaias fons: vulgate.org	Codex Gigas

Non-canonical versions

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Dead Sea Scrolls versions of Isaiah - in Hebrew	ספר ישעיהו : נוסחי מגילות ים המלח מקור: הדרך ליהוה	Great Isaiah Scroll (1Q Isa-a); Additional Dead Sea Scrolls Isaiah and Pesher to Isaiah fragments
Early Palestinian Christian versions of Isaiah - in "Syriac" Aramaic	general fragments, fragments from the lectionary, additional fragment. ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה
Septuagint-based Syriac versions of Isaiah - in Syriac Aramaic -- (SHOW/HIDE)
Syro-Hexaplar (Septuagint) Isaiah - in Syriac Aramaic	ܐܫܥܝܐ ܡܒܘܥܐ: Heinrich Middeldorpf	Codex Syro-hexaplaris Ambrosianus
Jacob of Edessa's revision of Isaiah (a combination of the Syro-Hexapla and the Peshitta)	ܐܫܥܝܐ: Ceriani's partial edition, ter Haar Romeny's analysis with some quotations, Juckel's analysis with some quotations (only preview available at this link.)	BL Add. Ms. 14441 (not digitised)
Vetus Latina ("Old Latin") Isaiah - in Latin	isaiae fons: Petri Sabatier (newer critical edition: part one, part two. fons: Vetus Latina: die Reste der altlateinischen Bibel
Additional Jewish Targumim: Tosefta to Targum Isaiah - in Jewish Aramaic	תוספתא לתרגום ישעיהו מקור: ארמיטה

Related quasi-biblical texts

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Dead Sea Scrolls: Text Related to Isaiah 11 - in Hebrew	4Q250 = Text Related to Isaiah 11 מקור: : qumran-digital	4Q250 = pap. Cryptic A Text Related to Isaiah 11

Significantly related deuterocanonical texts:

The Ascension of Isaiah

Odes or Canticles: presents liturgical recensions of Isaiah ch. 5, 12, 26, 38, 45, and 61.

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