Joshua - 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏

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Canonical Versions

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Masoretic Text of Joshua - in Hebrew	יהושע (לפי נוסח חמסורה) מקור: מִקְרָא עַל־פִּי הַמָּסוֹרָה	Leningrad Codex Aleppo Codex
Targum Jonathan on Joshua - in Jewish Aramaic	תרגום יונתן על יהושע מקור: מקראות גדולות של ספריא combined critical edition מקור: ארמיטה	Yemenite manuscript of Yosef ben Benayah ben Sa'adyah ben Zekharyah ben Margaz, 1483 CE Codex Reuchlinianus 3, 1105 CE
Peshitta Joshua - in Syriac Aramaic	ܝܫܘܥ ܒܪ ܢܘܢ ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה	Codex Ambrosianus
Orit Joshua - in Ge'ez	ኦሪት ፡ ዘኢየሱስ ። ዐይን: Augustus Dillman	"Pre-Solomonic" ms.: BN Éth. 3 (1262-1277) Likely typical "early" mss.: Davies Kebran (1417/18) [p: 174]; IES 294 (15th c.) [p: 264]; EMML 9001(15th c.) [p: 96]; Gunda Gunde 88 (15th c.) [p: 2]; Davies Bizan 1 (16th c.) [p: 140] Likely typical "standardized" mss.: EMML 6359 (1678) [p: 110]; EMIP 754 (18th c.) [p: 53] Likely typical "modern" mss.: EMIP 1115 (1895/6) [p: 216]; Unesco 2-4 (1900-1925) [p: 2_126]; IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible) (1934) [p: 97v] Beta Israel mss.: NLI Tofsei HaOrit 2 (scribe Amda Maryam) (15th-16th c.); NLI Or. 87 (Hoharwa Monastery) (17th c.); EMIP 2111 (Haverford Octateuch) (17th-18th c.) [p: 151]; D'Abbadie 148 (18th c.); Ben Zvi Institute 6001 (20th c.) Potential "Outlier" mss.: BL Or. 480 (14th-15th c.) [p: 397]; EMML 1929 (1434-68) [p: 213]; Gunda Gunde 60 (16th c.) [p:43]; EMML 7637 (16th c.) [p: 166]; Cambridge Ms. 1570 (translated by Jacob the Israelite) (1588); EMML 1842 (1662/3) [p: 186]; EMML 39 (19th c.) [p: 145]
Septuagint Joshua - in Koine Greek	Ιησούς Ναυή: Rahlfs' edition πηγή: nocr Swete's edition πηγή: biblehub	Codex Vaticanus (p: 238) Codex Alexandrinus (represents an alternate recension for ch. 15 and 18) Codex Sinaiticus (incomplete)
Vulgate Joshua - in Latin	josue fons: vulgate.org	Codex Gigas

Non-canonical versions

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Dead Sea Scrolls versions of Joshua - in Hebrew	ספר יהושע: נוסחי מגילות ים המלח מקור: הדרך ליהוה	All Dead Sea Scrolls Joshua fragments
Samaritan Book of Joshua, or The Samaritan Chronicle - in Samaritan Hebrew and in Samaritan Arabic	ࠎࠐࠓ࠰ ࠄࠉࠌࠉࠌ (ࠎࠐࠓ࠰ ࠉࠄࠅࠔࠏ࠰ ࠁࠍ࠰ ࠍࠅࠍ) -- Samaritan Hebrew recension. משה גסטר سفر يوشع بن نون عليه السلام -- later Samaritan Arabic recension. ࠌࠒࠅࠓ: Juynboll, Theodor Willem Johann additional Samaritan Hebrew recension: part 1; part 2. ࠌࠒࠅࠓ: Adler et Seligsohn The Arabic and additional Hebrew recensions continue the narrative chronologically, and present Samaritan versions of the histories recounted in all the books of the Masoretic Canon, and of the Maccabees.	Book of Joshua (Gaster Samaritan Ms. 888) in Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Arabic; Samaritan Chronicle (Gaster Samaritan Ms. 1168) in Samaritan Hebrew, but translated from the Arabic text.
Early Palestinian Christian version of Joshua - in "Syriac" Aramaic	general fragments ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה
Syro-Hexaplar (Septuagint) Joshua - in Syriac Aramaic	ܝܫܘܥ ܒܪ ܢܘܢ ܡܒܘܥܐ: Paul de Lagarde: Bibliothecae Syriacae Fragments: Joshua 6 Willem Baars: New Syro-Hexaplaric texts. Only previews available at this link. Joshua 6 M.H. Gottstein: Neue Syrohexaplafragmente [doc. pp. 13-14]
Alternate Septuagint recension "A" -- in Koine Greek	Joshua ch. 15, Joshua ch. 18 -- Rahlfs' edition. πηγή: nocr	Codex Alexandrinus
Vetus Latina ("Old Latin") Joshua - in Latin	josue fons: Petri Sabatier; (a newer critical edition exists, not available online.)	Codex Lugdunensis (Ms. 1964, P: 30R)
Additional Jewish Targumim: Tosefta to Targum Joshua - in Jewish Aramaic	תוספתא לתרגום יהושע מקור: ארמיטה

Related quasi-biblical texts

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Dead Sea Scrolls: Apocryphon of Joshua / Prophecy of Joshua - in Hebrew	מגילת דברי יהושע, 4Q480 (Prophecy of Joshua) מקור: : מאגרים	All Apocryphon of Joshua and Prophecy of Joshua Fragments

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