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The paper focuses on the status of the text of the Jewish Scripture in its Hebrew and Greek versions in the historical context of the 2nd and 3rd centuries of the Christian era. Although there is no evidence for the existence of a definite edition of the biblical text in either Hebrew or Greek, nor of a list of books universally recognised as authoritative, the Jewish Scripture, called the ‘Old Testament’ in the 2nd century, remains a fundamental source for the Jewish communities and for the pluralistic Christian movement.