Job - 𐤀𐤉𐤅𐤁

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Canonical Versions

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Masoretic Text of Job - in Hebrew	איוב (לפי נוסח חמסורה) מקור: מִקְרָא עַל־פִּי הַמָּסוֹרָה	Leningrad Codex Aleppo Codex
Peshitta Job - in Syriac Aramaic	ܐܝܘܒ ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה	Codex Ambrosianus
Ethiopic Job - in Ge'ez	መጽሐፈ ፡ ዘኢዮብ ። ዐይን: Francisco María Esteves Pereira Manuscript transcriptions from THEOT IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible); Cambridge Ms. 1570; EMML 6977; all THEOT transcriptions aligned (sample of text only)	"Pre-Solomonic" ms.: EMML 6977 (13th c.) [p: 10] Typical "early" mss.: BN Éth. 7 (14th c.) [fragmented at start]; EAP 704/1/5 (early 15th c.); EMML 1768 (late 15th c.) [p: 158]; EMML 7584 (16th c.) [p: 32]; d'Abbadie 55 (16th c.) Typical "standardized" mss.: EMML 6686 (17th c.) [p: 32]; D'Abbadie 35 (17th c.); EMML 7103 (1659) [p: 31]; EMML 2440 (1663) [p: 28]; Davies Axum Zion 3 (1664) [p: 397]; Unesco 10-4 (late 17th-early 18th c.) [p: 36]; EMIP 1924 (17th-18th c.) [p: 76]; Princeton Garret Eth. 7 (18th c.) [p: 5r]; EMML 38 (18th c.) [p: 76]; EMML 6930 (18th c.) [p: 37] Typical "modern" ms.: IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible) (1934) [p: 344v] Beta Israel ms. : d'Abbadie 30 (17th-18th c.) "Minor recension" ms.: Cambridge Ms. 1570 (translated by Jacob the Israelite) (1588);
Septuagint Job - in Koine Greek	Ιώβ: Rahlfs' edition πηγή: nocr; Swete's edition πηγή: biblehub The available Greek texts represent a conflation of the "Old Greek" and the "Theodotian" translations	Codex Vaticanus (p: 769)
Vulgate Job - in Latin	job fons: vulgate.org	Codex Gigas

Semi-canonical and non-canonical versions

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Dead Sea Scrolls versions of Job, including a Jewish Targum - in Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic -- (SHOW/HIDE)
Dead Sea Scrolls Book of Job -in Hebrew	ספר איוב: נוסחי מגילות ים המלח מקור: הדרך ליהוה	Dead Sea Scrolls Book of Job fragments in Hebrew 4QPaleoJob-c
Dead Sea Scrolls Targum Job - in Jewish Aramaic	תרגום איוב (מקומראן): 11QTargumJob 4QTargumJob מקור: ארמיטה	All Dead Sea Scrolls Targum Job fragments
Vetus Latina ("Old Latin") Job - in Latin	job fons: Petri Sabatier
Targum Em"et (semi-canonical) - in Jewish Aramaic	תרגום אמ"ת על איוב מקור: מקראות גדולות של ספריא critical edition מקור: ארמיטה	Ms. Paris Hebrew 17 (The National Library of France)
Early Palestinian Christian versions of Job - in "Syriac" Aramaic	general fragments, fragments from the lectionary ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה

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