Endnote 6 – I: The Text Behind the Text of the Hebrew Bible

In fact, the Nash Papyrus had already given a glimpse of an earlier stage of the Pentateuchal text before the fixing of the Rabbinic Recension, but its witness was largely ignored. See W. F. Albright, “A Biblical Fragment from the Maccabaean Age: The Nash Papyrus,” Journal of Biblical Literature 56 (1937), pp. 145–176.