Bernkastel
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Bolivar687
asked, here is some background info(I shouldnt be putting this much effort into a ruined thread) from the beginning of Part 1.The words in the Bible can be a matter of life and death to some people across the globe, but the bible is not without fault. The original New Testament was written in Greek, which was then translated to Latin by the Vulgate and then into English by King James Bible, even though Jesus's sayings would have been in Aramaic, the language of Judea of that time. The modern bible that we use today is different from the copies of bible found upto 2000 years ago, that still survive today, even many Christian and Jewish scholars acknowledge. The modern Bible you often find is the Gideon's Bible, based on the English Standard Version of 2001 made to suit 21st century standard, which is a translation of Revised Standard Version of 1952, which is itself a revision of the American Standard Version of 1901, which is a translation of the English Revised version of the late 1800s, which is finally a revision of the King James Version of the Bible published in 1611.
King James version used several sources for its translation. Like Greek Masoretic Text for Old Testament primarily copied, edited and distributed by a group of Jews known as the Mesorets between 7th and 10th century AD, oldest surviving text dating to ninth century AD. These Masoretic texts are based on even older texts which are now lost. The New Testament is similarly based on a series of copies each branching of to dfferent versions. For example, the Vulgate used in Catholic Churches contains many differences with the Masoretic Texts. For hundreds of years Archeologists are discovering older versions of Bible like the Codex Vaticanus written in Greek around 300 AD, Codex Sinaticus written around 330 to 360 AD, fragmented documents of Aquila of Sinope written in 2nd Century, Papyrus 66 discovered in Egypt around 200 AD and the famous Dead Sea Scrolls, although all of these are still copies of the original and many times there are dozens of textual variations between them. These are all manually copied by scribes, which can take months and even years and they change from scribe to scribe.
Textual variants in the New Testament - Wikipedia
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