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Old manuscripts pdf8/26/2023 ![]() It was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls that helped scholars to answer this question: “Does the Masoretic Text faithfully represent the Hebrew text as originally written by the authors of the Old Testament books?” The tradition of the Masoretic Text is significant for four reasons: It provided the only textual witness to the Old Testament for more than 1,000 years (9th century AD to 1947 when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered) its internal consistency clearly attests to the care, precision, and systematic rigor with which the Masoretic scribes copied the manuscripts the Masoretic Text tradition allows the textual critic to reasonably assume a prior tradition going back to as early as AD 70 and it provides the primary textual witness by which all other textual witnesses are measured. Following the tradition of earlier scribes, the Masoretes were committed to faithfully preserving the correct form of the Hebrew text. Scholars deem these five ancient Hebrew sources to be immensely valuable for biblical research:Īs we noted in last week’s post, the majority of English translations of the Old Testament are derived from ancient texts created by the group of scribes called the Masoretes. Specifically, the Aleppo Codexand the Leningrad Codex, which they produced in the 10th and 11th centuries. ![]() In this week’s post, let’s look at some important Hebrew manuscripts that help to validate Old Testament Scripture. Of just the known 5,800+ Greek New Testament manuscripts, there are more than 2.6 million pages! That equates to one mile of New Testament manuscripts (and 2.5 miles for the entire Bible), compared with an average four feet of manuscript by the average classical writer. Combining both the Old and New Testament, we have more than 66,000 manuscripts and scrolls that speak to the validity of Scripture! I love reposting the following statistic, as it’s so impressive: So much historical documentation exists to confirm the faithful transcription of Scripture. ![]() I hope one truth you’re learning, as we travel this series together, is that the Bible is THE most vetted document in the history of the world. In last week’s blog post we answered the question, “Did ancient scribes faithfully transcribe biblical texts?” Resoundingly, research shouts, “YES!” Historical manuscripts have already done so. Basic local alignment search tool (BLAST)-based identification and phylogeny-based identification using the data set of internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences is required to determine the species identities of the fungal strains.Modern Christians don’t have to defend the validity of the Bible. Three fungal isolates could not be described and were grouped as Mycelia sterilia. Morphological characterization described the fungal isolates in the genera of Aspergillus, Penicillium, and Eurotium. The fungal isolates were xerophilic in nature. Twenty fungal isolates were able to grow on the old paper strips indicating that the old manuscripts are liable to fungal degradation. The paper strips were inoculated with cell suspension at a concentration of approximately 1 × 10 7 cell/mL. Detection of fungal deterioration on paper was investigated by using paper strip method with old paper of European origin on Czapek’s Dox Agar (CDA) without carbon source. Twenty-two fungal isolates were obtained by sterile cotton swab and the culture-dependent method on Dichloran Glycerol Agar (DG18). Observation by loop was carried out in the field to determine the type of paper and to detect biodeterioration of the manuscripts. All manuscripts showed brown and black spots, and fungal spores on the surfaces. The objectives of this study were to isolate and morphologically characterize fungi from nine old manuscripts of European origin. Keraton Kasepuhan Cirebon has collection of five old manuscripts of European origin from 19 th century, and the former library of Faculty of Humanities Universitas Indonesia has collection of four old manuscripts of European paper origin from 19–20 th centuries.
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