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Description: The relationships among the various ancient manuscripts of the Old Testament, according to the Encyclopaedia Biblica.[page needed] Dotted pale blue lines indicate texts which were used to correct the main source. The isolated letters are standard siglums designating particularly significant manuscripts: א [aleph] = Codex Sinaiticus A = Codex Alexandrinus B = Codex Vaticanus Q = Codex MarchalianusIn addition, the standard abbreviations: MT = Masoretic Text LXX = Septuagint - in this diagram, this refers to the original version of the Septuagint (as opposed to Lucian, Heysicius, Hexaplar, A, B, X [aleph], etc., the Old Testaments/Hebrew Bibles of which are commonly also called Septuagint) See also File:ATtextgeschichte farb.jpg
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