Old Testament and New Testament Manuscript History
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Who are the Essenes? Where is the Nag Hammadi Library? Can sacred texts be found in a desert dump? What does an island in the Nile have to do with Ezra and Nehemiah? Was Miles Coverdale the Main Man of the Age of English Bible translations? Follow the history of the Bible, its translations and manuscripts, from Cuneiform Tablets to the Spanish inquisition.
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Old Testament and New Testament Manuscript History - Michael J. Findley
Old Testament and New Testament Manuscript History
(Excerpts from Biblical Studies OT and NT Student Editions)
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Michael J. and Mary C. Findley
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Old Testament and New Testament Manuscript History (excerpted from Biblical Studies OT and NT Student Editions) 2nd Edition
copyright Michael J and Mary C. Findley 2015
Findley Family Video Publications
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Scripture references are as follows: The Bible: The king James Version, public domain. RV (English Revised Version), also public domain. (Please see the Authors' Note within the doctrinal study materials on Evans' language, Style and Content for information concerning this translation.) The New International Version, from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION registered NIV registered. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. The New American Standard Version: Scripture quotations taken from the New American Standard Bible registered, Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation Used by permission.
img2.jpgCreation Museum’s Prophets of the Old Testament exhibit, Isaiah. Photo released into the Public Domain by the photographer.
History of the Bible Part One: Old Testament
img3.jpgEven if some parts of the Bible were handed down through oral transmission, they are still accurate. Incredibly, some people who dare to call themselves scholars
claim that Hebrews of the Kingdom period did not have a written language. The only reason for making this outrageous claim is to manufacture doubt about the reliability of the Old Testament. They can claim it had to be written later, undermining the possibility of correct chronology and accuracy of prophecies.
A terra cotta tablet list of gods of Ugarit was excavated at Ras Shamra. It is in the Louvre, Paris, France.
(Ugarit is written in cuneiform but is almost identical to ancient Hebrew and unlike other cuneiform languages. See Appendix for more information.)
Not even the discovery of actual kingdom period written Hebrew could convince some people. The Hebrew alphabet from the kingdom period resembled a Phonician alphabet. The illustration shows a copy of the Siloam Inscription which was placed at the mouth of Hezekiah’s Tunnel, August 2010. It is written in Paleo-Hebrew, Phoenician alphabet. The original was found in the tunnel and removed in 1891 to the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Turkey.
img4.jpgBefore these discoveries this type of bigotry could at least be excused. Now the evidence demands that the Hebrews were at least capable of writing the Old Testament.
Ezekiel and Daniel both had the Word of God during the exile. Though many Jews abandoned the Word of God during the exile in Assyria, Babylon, and Persia, believing Jews spread it throughout these empires.
When the exiles returned to Judah, Ezra read the Word of God to the people. The way the people repented showed that most of them were unfamiliar with the Word