Editing Book of Judges (section)

===Manuscript sources===
Four of the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] feature parts of Judges: 1QJudg, found in [[Qumran Caves|Qumran Cave 1]]; 4QJudg<sup>a</sup> and 4QJudg<sup>b</sup>, found in [[Qumran Caves|Qumran Cave 4]]; and XJudges, a fragment discovered in 2001.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40387582|title=A New Fragment of Xjudges|author1=Eshel, Esther|author2=Eshel, Hanan|author3=Broshi, Magen|year=2007|journal=Dead Sea Discoveries|volume=14|issue=3|pages=354–358|doi=10.1163/156851707782177468|jstor=40387582}}</ref><ref name=Rezetko>{{cite journal |last=Rezetko |first=Robert |title=The Qumran Scrolls of the Book of Judges: Literary Formation, Textual Criticism, and Historical Linguistics |journal=[[Journal of Hebrew Scriptures]] |year=2013 |volume=13 |issue=2 |page=9 |doi=10.5508/jhs.2013.v13.a2 |doi-access=free |hdl=2066/120003 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

The earliest complete surviving copy of the Book of Judges in [[Biblical Hebrew|Hebrew]] is in the [[Aleppo Codex]] (10th century CE).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-sep-28-adfg-aleppo28-story.html|title=Scholars search for pages of ancient Hebrew Bible|date=September 28, 2008|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aleppocodex.org/links/9.html|title=The Aleppo Codex|website=www.aleppocodex.org|access-date=2020-08-29|archive-date=2012-01-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120115105923/http://www.aleppocodex.org/links/9.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[Septuagint]] (Greek translation) is found in early manuscripts such as the Codex Colberto-Sarravianus (c. AD 400; contains many lacunae) and the Fragment of Leipzig (c. AD 500).<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 October 2009 |title=A New English Translation of the Septuagint |url=http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/nets/edition/07-judges-nets.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008003053/http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/nets/edition/07-judges-nets.pdf |archive-date=2008-10-08 |url-status=live |access-date=21 October 2022 |website=University of Pennsylvania}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rezetko |first=Robert |title=The Qumran Scrolls of the Book of Judges: Literary Formation, Textual Criticism, and Historical Linguistics |url=https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/2066/120003/120003.pdf |access-date=21 October 2022 |website=Radboud University}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nuVfrzcd9xMC&q=%22leipzig+fragment+%22&pg=PA284|title=Targum and Testament Revisited: Aramaic Paraphrases of the Hebrew Bible: A Light on the New Testament, Second Edition|first=Martin|last=McNamara|date=July 26, 2010|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=9780802862754|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pefhAAAAQBAJ&q=%22Codex+Colberto-Sarravianus+%22+judges&pg=PA729|title=The Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism|first=Robert B.|last=Waltz|publisher=Robert B. Waltz|via=Google Books}}</ref>