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The siglum AqTaylor designates fragments of the literal translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek by Aquila. This is a septuagint manuscript dated after the middle of the fifth century C.E., but not later than the beginning of the sixth century C.E. . Aquila's translation was performed approximately in the year c.130 C.E.

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History

The fragments were published by C. Taylor in his work Hebrew-Greek Cairo Genizah Palimpsests, Cambridge, 1900, pp. 54–65.

Description

This manuscript contains Psalms 90-103. The manuscript is written in koine Greek, but it contains the tetragrammaton in archaic Hebrew script characters () in Ps 91:2, 9; 92:1, 4, 5, 8, 9; 96:7, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13; 97:1, 5, 9, 10, 12; 102:15, 16, 19, 21; 103:1, 2, 6, 8.

Actual location

Today is kept at Library of the University of Cambridge

References

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