Re: translations
Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Sat, 31 Jan 1998 12:23:41 -0800
AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote:
> eh, speaking as someone who has studied a bit of theology and looked at the
> textual issues surrounding the Christian Scriptures, you've represented just
> one viable position among many in your post below. The people who have
> adopted that position flatter themselves with the title "The Only Really
> Objective Bible Scholars," but I've sat thru their classes and know better
> than to believe that...
>
> The Dead Sea Scrolls are remarkable in that the texts of the Hebrew Scriptures
> they contained dated from the time of Christ. Previous to their discovery,
> the oldest Hebrew texts we had were the Masoretic texts dating from the 10th
> century. Over the course of 900 years, you would be surprised how well
> preserved the Hebrew Scriptures were. The DSS contained complete texts of the
> book of Isaiah and Deuteronomy, and fragments of all books of the Hebrew
> Scriptures except one or two (don't remember what they were).
You stop short of acknowledging the Nag Hammadi Library (the Gnostic Gospels), I
notice.
Malcolm