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Does the Vatican have Original texts? If not how did we get the translations from today…
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Catholig
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Most of the “original texts” don’t exist anymore, atleast not the ones St. Jerome used when he translated the Bible into Latin, however the Vatican does have Codex Vaticanus, which was written in the 4th Century.Does the Vatican have Original texts? If not how did we get the translations from today…
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Ron_Conte
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None of the original manuscripts of the Bible are still in extistence. All we have are copies of copies of copies… of copies of copies, with many copiest errors and some editing.
There are very old fragments, literally a small piece of one page. There are old manuscripts, but the oldest are not complete books, let alone complete Bibles. Modern Bibles are influenced by thousands of manuscripts, in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Arabic, and other languages.
It is complicated.
There are very old fragments, literally a small piece of one page. There are old manuscripts, but the oldest are not complete books, let alone complete Bibles. Modern Bibles are influenced by thousands of manuscripts, in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Arabic, and other languages.
It is complicated.
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Mintaka
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However, we have far more manuscripts of books of the Bible that have survived from classical times than we do of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid.
Thousands more, in fact.
Also, both Jewish and Christian copying of books of the Bible has generally been very careful, and copies have been frequently compared and corrected throughout the history of the books. In general, this system for transmission of information has worked quite well down the centuries.
Thousands more, in fact.
Also, both Jewish and Christian copying of books of the Bible has generally been very careful, and copies have been frequently compared and corrected throughout the history of the books. In general, this system for transmission of information has worked quite well down the centuries.
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Verbum
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Hi Jedda,
The science of manucripts (the name of which I can’t recall) has made tremendous progress in the last 100 years or so. Scholars use all the extent manuscripts to establish a “genealogy”, (the order in which the manuscripts were copied). Thus, they can tell at what time variants were included, and which are more likely to have been in the original text. You can see part of this work when you buy a “critical” edition. The variants (with the list of manuscripts for each of them) are at the bottom of the page. One popular critical edition of the New Testament is the Greek-Latin Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine by Eberhard Nestle and successors. See
amazon.com/Novum-Testamentum-Graece-Eberhard-Nestle/dp/3438051001
The intro is in several languages, including English.
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The science of manucripts (the name of which I can’t recall) has made tremendous progress in the last 100 years or so. Scholars use all the extent manuscripts to establish a “genealogy”, (the order in which the manuscripts were copied). Thus, they can tell at what time variants were included, and which are more likely to have been in the original text. You can see part of this work when you buy a “critical” edition. The variants (with the list of manuscripts for each of them) are at the bottom of the page. One popular critical edition of the New Testament is the Greek-Latin Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine by Eberhard Nestle and successors. See
amazon.com/Novum-Testamentum-Graece-Eberhard-Nestle/dp/3438051001
The intro is in several languages, including English.
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thistle
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The Dead Sea Scrolls proved that copies were about 98% accurate and discrepancies were minor, like spelling errors only.However, we have far more manuscripts of books of the Bible that have survived from classical times than we do of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid.
Thousands more, in fact.
Also, both Jewish and Christian copying of books of the Bible has generally been very careful, and copies have been frequently compared and corrected throughout the history of the books. In general, this system for transmission of information has worked quite well down the centuries.
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