Song of Songs - 𐤔𐤉𐤓 𐤄𐤔𐤉𐤓𐤉𐤌

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Canonical Versions

Version Modern or critical edition Selected manuscript/s

Masoretic Text of Song of Songs
- in Hebrew		 שיר השירים (לפי נוסח חמסורה)
מקור: מִקְרָא עַל־פִּי הַמָּסוֹרָה 		Leningrad Codex,

Aleppo Codex (incomplete)

Peshitta Song of Songs
- in Syriac Aramaic		ܬܫܒܚܬ ܬܫܒܚ̈ܬܐ
ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה		Codex Ambrosianus

Ethiopic Song of Songs
- in Ge'ez		መጽሐፈ ፡ መሓልየ ፡ መሓልይ ።
ዐይን: Hugh Gleave
additional strophes of the "Hebraist edition"
ዐይን: Roger Cowley
Song of Songs in a printed EOTC psalter
(1900. "Hebraist edition" text.)
manuscript transcriptions from THEOT: EMML 6531 (common edition);
Leiden Or. 4734 (common edition);
EMIP 797 (common edition);
IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible - common edition);
EMIP 244 (Hebraist edition);
EthioSPaRe DD-004 (Hebraist edition);
EMML 2064 (Old Giyorgis edition);
EMIP 2290 (extended Old Giyorgis edition);
all THEOT transcriptions aligned by verse

Note: the Hebraist and Old Giyorgis editions contain additional strophes not corresponding to any other version.		 Common or "Short" Edition:
Typical "early" ms.
EMML 6531 (15th-16th c.) [p: 163]; Davies Dabra Libanos (16th c.) [p: 168]
Typical "standardized" ms.
EMIP 797 (20th c. Late, but typical for this type.) [p: 158]
Typical "modern" ms.
IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible) (1934) [p: 414r]
Beta Israel fragment
(possibly with a slightly alternate recension)
Faitlovitch Ms. 28
(vs. 6:3-7:4 of Song of Songs "common" recension,
followed by three additional words not in any recension.)
[p: 3-4. Fragment used to wrap the ms.]
Hebraist or "Medium" Edition:
EMIP 244 (18th c.) [p: 184]
Old Giyorgis or "Long" Editions:
Old Giyorgis Edition
EMML 2064 (15th c.) [p:152]
Extended Old Giyorgis Edition
EMIP 2290 (20th c.) [p: 101]

Septuagint Song of Songs
- in Koine Greek		Ασμα Ασμάτων:
Rahlfs' edition
πηγή: nocr
Swete's edition
πηγή: biblehub 		Codex Vaticanus (p: 763)

Vulgate Song of Songs
- in Latin		 canticum canticorum
fons: vulgate.org		Codex Gigas

Semi-canonical and non-canonical versions

Version Modern or critical edition Selected manuscript/s

Dead Sea Scrolls versions of Song of Songs
- in Hebrew		 ספר שיר השירים: נוסחי מגילות ים המלח
מקור: הדרך ליהוה 		All Dead Sea Scrolls Song of Songs fragments

Targum Five Megillot (semi-canonical)
- in Jewish Aramaic		תרגום ה' מגילות על שיר השירים
מקור: מקראות גדולות של ספריא
critical edition
מקור: ארמיטה		Ms. Paris Hebrew 110
(The National Library of France)

Vetus Latina ("Old Latin") Song of Songs
- in Latin		 canticum canticorum salomonis
fons: Petri Sabatier

Significantly related biblical texts:

Books in the tradition of Solomon:

Other books also included in the Ge'ez Psalter ("Dawit"):

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