Ruth - 𐤓𐤅𐤕

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Canonical Versions

Version Modern or critical edition Selected manuscript/s

Masoretic Text of Ruth
- in Hebrew
רות (לפי נוסח חמסורה)
מקור: מִקְרָא עַל־פִּי הַמָּסוֹרָה
Leningrad Codex

Aleppo Codex

Peshitta Ruth
- in Syriac Aramaic
ܪܥܘܬ
ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה
Codex Ambrosianus

Orit Ruth
- in Ge'ez
ኦሪት ፡ ዘሩት ።
ዐይን: Augustus Dillman
manuscript transcriptions from THEOT:
Davies Dabra Bizan; EMIP 754;
EMML 6359; Gunda Gunde 60;
Gunda Gunde 88;
all THEOT transcriptions aligned by verse
"Pre-Solomonic" ms.:
BN Éth. 3 (1262-1277)
Typical "early" mss.:
BL Or. 480 (14th-15th c.) [p: 483]; Davies Kebran (1417/18) [p: 221];
EMML 1929 (1434-68) [p: 259]; EMML 9001 (15th c.) [p: 126];
Gunda Gunde 88 (15th c.) [p:63]; Davies Bizan 1 (16th c.) [p: 173]
Cambridge Ms. 1570 (translated by Jacob the Israelite) (1588);
Typical "standardized" and "modern" mss.:
EMML 6359 (1678) [p: 136]; EMIP 754 (18th c.) [p: 65];
EMML 39 (19th c.) [p: 178]; EMIP 1115 (1895/6) [p: 270]
Unesco 2-4 (1900-1925) [p: 167];
IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible) (1934) [p: 121r]
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: 183];
D'Abbadie 148 (18th c.); Ben Zvi Institute 6001 (20th c.)
Mss. representing a "minor recension":
Gunda Gunde 60 (16th c.) [p: 78];
EMML 7637 (16th c.) [p: 200]

Septuagint Ruth
- in Koine Greek
Ρούθ:
Rahlfs' edition
πηγή: nocr
Swete's edition
πηγή: biblehub
Codex Vaticanus (p: 304)

Vulgate Ruth
- in Latin
ruth
fons: vulgate.org
Codex Gigas

Semi-canonical and non-canonical versions

Version Modern or critical edition Selected manuscript/s

Dead Sea Scrolls versions of Ruth
- in Hebrew
ספר רות: נוסחי מגילות ים המלח
מקור: הדרך ליהוה
All Dead Sea Scrolls Ruth fragments

Targum Five Megillot (semi-canonical)
- in Jewish Aramaic
תרגום ה' מגילות על רות
מקור: מקראות גדולות של ספריא
critical edition
מקור: ארמיטה
Valmadonna 1, England, 1189 CE

Vetus Latina ("Old Latin") Ruth
- in Latin
ruth
fons: Petri Sabatier
(and a newer critical edition of the same)
(fons: Vetus Latina: die Reste der altlateinischen Bibel)

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