An Exodus scroll has been dated to the third quarter of the third century B.C.E., one of Samuel to the end of the same century, and a scroll of Jeremiah to between 225 and 175 B.C.E. Sufficient material from the third to the first century B.C.E. has been found to trace changes in writing styles and individual letters of the Hebrew and Aramaic alphabets, something of great value in dating manuscripts.
की तीसरी शताब्दी के तीसरे चतुर्थांश में निर्धारित की गयी है, शमूएल के एक खर्रे की तिथि उसी शताब्दी के अन्त में, और यिर्मयाह के एक खर्रे की तिथि सा.