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How We Got the Bible. Part One: From Moses to the Canon Part Two: From Jerome toWycliffe Part Three: From Erasmus to Tyndale, and Onward. Part I: From Moses to the Canon. Moses begins writing the Old Testament ca. 1400 B.C. Paul begins writing the New Testament ca. A.D. 49 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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  • How We Got the BiblePart One: From Moses to the Canon

    Part Two: From Jerome toWycliffe

    Part Three: From Erasmus to Tyndale,and Onward

  • Part I: From Moses to the CanonMoses begins writing the Old Testament ca. 1400 B.C.

    Paul begins writing the New Testament ca. A.D. 49

    The Canon is complete by A. D. 100

  • O.T. HebrewHebrew TextStone, Clay, Papyrus, Leather

  • Preserving the Hebrew ScripturesThe Massoretes, ca. A.D. 500, sought ways and methodsby which to eliminate scribal slips of addition or omission.this they achieved through intricate procedures of count-ing (Neal Lightfoot, How We Got the Bible, 2003, p. 132).

    Pre-Massoretes, Talmud regulations reflect infinite carein the preservation and transmission of the text of theHebrew Scriptures.

    Evidence from the Cairo Genizah, discovered late 19thcentury, indicated damaged or inferior manuscripts takenout of circulation -- later buried.

  • The Dead Sea

  • Qumran CommunityMiqveh (Baptistry)Dining AreaScriptorium

  • Dead Sea Scrolls, ca. 250 BCIsaiah ScrollShrine of the BookCave 4

  • On the Nile DeltaAntiochus IV, r. 175-64 BCRosetta Stoneca. 196 BCSeptuagint Version, ca.250 BC

  • Antiochus IV, Epiphanesr. 175-164 B.C.Attempted to destroy the Hebrew Scriptures

  • Alexandria, Egypt

  • The Septuagint (LXX) Versionca. 250 B.C.O.T. in Greek translationproduced in Alexandria, Egypt.

  • Rosetta Stone, ca. 196 B.C.Alexander the Great sowedGreek language throughoutthe classical world -- thekoine (common) dialect wasthe lingua franca of the RomanEmpire by New Testament times.

  • New Testament, Koine GreekPapyrus P 52, Oldest N.T.portion, A.D. 110-130

  • Preserving the Greek N. T.Of CAESARS GALLIC WARS from A.D. 900 10 Copies

    Of THUCYDIDES (History) from A.D. 900 8 Copies

    Of HERODOTUS (History) from A.D. 900 8 Copies

    Of ARISTOTLE (Philosophy)from A.D. 1100 5 Copies

    Of NEW TESTAMENTfrom A.D. 110-30 onward,over 5000 portions or com-plete copies.

  • Preserving the Greek N. T.To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity,for no documents of the ancient period are as well attested bibliographically as The New Testament.

    J.W. Montgomery, Barrister/Scholar

  • Do We Have the Bible?It is reassuring at the end to find that the general result of all

    these discoveries and all this study is to strengthen the proof of

    the authenticity of the Scriptures, and our conviction that we

    have in our hands, in substantial integrity, the veritable Word

    of God. Sir Frederick Kenyon, Dir. British Museum, dec.

  • About Textual VariantsWe possess so many MSS., and we are aided by so many versions, that we arenever left to the need of conjecture as themeans of removing errata.

    S. P. Tragelles, Greek New Testament, Prolegomena

  • O.T. Canon Finalized, Council ofJamnia, A.D. 90?

  • N.T. Canon Finalized, Council of Carthage, A.D. 397?

  • The Indestructible Word of GodHeaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away.Matthew 24:35