New testament letters

[wiggbuggie]

are these letters actual hand written letters written in greek that were found in those churches? Are they placed in a museum? Were did paul letters or peters come from?

 

[CountrySteve]

they were written in greek originally and they don’t have the original letters

 

[1ke]

are these letters actual hand written letters written in greek that were found in those churches?

The authors of scripture wrote their manuscripts and letters to either individuals or groups. Then the faithful made copies to share throughout all the various churches.

Yes, the were hand written, there were not any other options.

And, yes, they were written in Greek, although some scholars believe Matthew was originally written in Hebrew.

Are they placed in a museum?

There are many extant manuscripts, some from as early as the 2nd century.

Were did paul letters or peters come from?

I don’t think I understand your question. They came from Peter and Paul, who wrote them.

 

[wiggbuggie]

maybe I wasn’t clear but I was refering to the source material of the letters when they were translated. Like someone stated above me the original letters were lost but copies were made and passed around the believers. I’m guessing one of these copies were handed down and eventually translated.

 

[DianaCC]

Take a look at Romans 16:22; Galatians 6:11; Colossians 4:16,18; 2 Thessalonians 3:17 for surprising evidence that these were actual hand-written correspondence.

 

[thistle]

The authors of scripture wrote their manuscripts and letters to either individuals or groups. Then the faithful made copies to share throughout all the various churches.

Yes, the were hand written, there were not any other options.

And, yes, they were written in Greek, although some scholars believe Matthew was originally written in Hebrew.

There are many extant manuscripts, some from as early as the 2nd century.

I don’t think I understand your question. They came from Peter and Paul, who wrote them.

I might be wrong but I think the poster is asking if any original New Testament documents have survived. I am not aware any originals have survived although I think a fragment of Mark’s Gospel sits in the British Museum.

 

[DavidFilmer]

are these letters actual hand written letters written in greek that were found in those churches?

No. We do not have a single scrap of writing of any of the original Epistles of either Paul or Peter.

We have, at best, copies of copies (of copies of copies). And our modern concept of the term “copy” (ie, faithful reproduction) does not necessarily apply.

 

[NHInsider]

Also most of the extant “copies” from the first five centuries or so are not complete manuscripts, they are fragments - some of them quite small pieces.

 

[wiggbuggie]

interesting, do you have a link to the poster who said a fragment of the gospel of mark exits. Lately I’ve been thinking how the bible was put together and were these books, letters were found etc Like once I heard when they found the dead sea scrolls and compared the translation it was pretty accurate of what we already knew. God protects his word

 

[DavidFilmer]

interesting, do you have a link to the poster who said a fragment of the gospel of mark exits. Lately I’ve been thinking how the bible was put together and were these books, letters were found etc Like once I heard when they found the dead sea scrolls and compared the translation it was pretty accurate of what we already knew. God protects his word

Maybe you could site your source. A few scholars believe that a tiny bit of the Dead Sea Scrolls (fragment 7Q5) cites (just) two verses of the Gospel of Mark (6:52-53). They are pretty good verses (part of the Eucharistic account paralleled in John 6).

I’ve never heard anyone claim that the DSS preserves the Gospel (except for perhaps two verses in one of four books), or any part of any Epistle.

 

[Third_Day]

are these letters actual hand written letters written in greek that were found in those churches? Are they placed in a museum? Were did paul letters or peters come from?

About a month ago the CBS news program 60 Minutes went into the Vatican Library and viewed a fragment of John’s Gospel and other artifiacts.

cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/08/60minutes/main20052140.shtml

 

[Muze]

OK… .

1. The entire NT was written in Koine Greek. The only letter that has even had a suggestion of aramaic was Matthew, and that’s pretty much dead.
2. The letters were delivered and preserved by the early churches. There isn’t any sense in which they were “found”, as though they were lost. The faithful in the churches made copies to preserve the originals. Later on, the Eastern Church began to make COPIOUS numbers of copies, thus giving it the monkier the “majority text.”

Jerome translated what the RCC now uses, which is the Latin Vulgate.

 

[patrick457]

are these letters actual hand written letters written in greek that were found in those churches? Are they placed in a museum? Were did paul letters or peters come from?

First of all, we no longer have the originals, i.e. the actual handwritten first-edition copies. What we have are copies and copies of copies and so on. In fact, parts of the New Testament have been preserved in more manuscripts than any other ancient work, having over 5,800 complete or fragmented Greek manuscripts, 10,000 Latin manuscripts and 9,300 manuscripts in various other ancient languages including Syriac, Slavic, Gothic, Ethiopic, Coptic and Armenian.

 

[patrick457]

Maybe you could site your source. A few scholars believe that a tiny bit of the Dead Sea Scrolls (fragment 7Q5) cites (just) two verses of the Gospel of Mark (6:52-53). They are pretty good verses (part of the Eucharistic account paralleled in John 6).

I’ve never heard anyone claim that the DSS preserves the Gospel (except for perhaps two verses in one of four books), or any part of any Epistle.

That’s what Carsten Peter Thiede and Fr. José O’Callaghan proposed, but personally I side with the majority here and doubt their interpretation. I just think that isn’t it kind of odd that a cache of manuscripts connected with a sect who so rigorously and strictly stressed ritual purity (more so than any other Jewish group of the period, even the Pharisees) would contain the fragment of a section that precedes the Markan pericope of Jesus mitigating the purity laws of the old covenant (7:1-23)?