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World's oldest Bible to be available online
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impalpable
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I love looking at old documents like this. I took a class on the witch hunts of Salem, MA during undergrad and we had access to a website with primary documents from the initial witch trials. It was very cool to look at, even online.
I think it's great that so many old documents are being made available online.
abecedarian
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True:lol:
But that statement bothers me just the same. Why would people be unhappy that a fragment of this Bible didn't mention the Resurrection? Hello, it OLD and it's a fragment...I'd be happy any of it survived at all, not angry it didn't contain a certain part of Scripture. Seems to me whoever said that was just stirring the waters...
I agree. Unless the resurrection stuff mentioned should be on a page but isn't.
abecedarian
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That's another thing.. this thing about chapter and verse didn't come about for a long time.. I'd have to check but I'm thinking it wasn't until sometime during the Reformation. I'd need to know which book the fragment is from and what else in on the page to know whether to get upset.
Doesn't changing the order of the sentences/paragraphs change the meaning?
abecedarian
Well-Known Member
It could but I don't think the order was different, just wasn't marked with 'coordinates' like we use today.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I think that the pages that contain resurrection passages aren't there because they didn't survive.
At any rate, it will be interesting to see how much the Bible has changed over the past 1600 years. Well, the New Testament.
At any rate, it will be interesting to see how much the Bible has changed over the past 1600 years. Well, the New Testament.
pontalba
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The one thing we can all be assured of is the fact that meanings will be twisted, and moaning will be heard from all sides as to what is or is not included. And since there is no way of knowing what was lost, or deliberately included or deliberately excluded we can take no meaning from said inclusion or exclusion.
Sure but can't this version, since it is closer to the original chronologically speaking, be considered more valid than our modern versions?
pontalba
Well-Known Member
It depends, logically speaking one would assume so, however there were divisive elements in Christianity at the time and the found versions could or might not be of a sect or group that was deliberately withholding original scripture.
We just don't have any way of knowing that.
True but we don't know if our versions are any "truer".
pontalba
Well-Known Member
The modern versions jive with the portions of The Dead Sea Scrolls that were found in 1947.
Other than that God states that He would never allow His Word to die. Of course that is a matter of faith. Either you have faith or you don't.
Sure but that's the Old Testament. The one I'm talking about has New Testament material.
pontalba
Well-Known Member
The Psalms overlap.
And my previous post regarding the 4th Century.....
still holds true.
The Psalms aren't one of the books of the New Testament. Unless you're using a different Bible than everyone else.
pontalba
Well-Known Member
/patiently/
If you read the link I provided however Psalms is included in the list of found bits at the site by the Dead Sea. That is what I was referring to in my post.
EDIT: Sparky, note Psalms mentioned in your article link and mine....that is the connection.