Posted on 07/01/2010 8:26:44 AM PDT by decimon
An eighth-century religious manuscript described as " more important than the Dead Sea Scrolls" has finally been put on display at the National Museum of Ireland.
The 1,200 year old religious manuscript was found in a bog with the Latin words of Psalm 83 open. It had lain undisturbed for 1,200 years.
The psalm closes with the words: “Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD—that you alone are the Most High over all the earth."
The National Museum rated the work as of "staggering importance" and says the book of psalms or psalter is among the top ten most valuable ever found.
(Excerpt) Read more at irishcentral.com ...
Via SunkenCiv.
Bog ping.
How could that be more important?
The dead sea scrolls confirmed that several books really were authored prior to Christ and had remained virtually unchanged from that time.
I wonder what’s so staggeringly important about it.
Why?
I’m not sure I get why this is so important a find. Not Biblically, certainly, or am I missing something. I mean I see the historical signifcance, but it’s pretty after the fact for it to be be of Biblical significance, isn’t it?
Article actually says more important “for Ireland” than the Dead Sea scrolls. Pretty cool stuff regardless of any hyperbole.
Because they don’t have the dead sea scrolls but they do have the Irish manuscripts. I guess procession is 90% of the importance along with the law.
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Which New Testament books supposedly pre-date Christ?
I do understand that the Dead Sea Scrolls actually lend support to the inclusion of the deuterocanonycals in the Old Testament (which is what the earliest Christian records prove Catholics have done for 1700 years, and all Christians did until the protestants edited the bible in the1500s).
bflr
This is very important Eschatologically, because Psalm 83 is actually being lived out in our day- see:
http://www.believersingrace.com/psalm83part1.html
http://www.believersingrace.com/psalm83part2.html
http://www.believersingrace.com/psalm83part3.html
Of course that manuscript is more important to Dr Patrick Wallace. The Dr.’s museum has that manuscript - and not the dead sea scrolls. If he had both...
The oldest existing Hebrew manuscript of the Scriptures is the Aleppo Codex which dates to the 10th century (the Aleppo is now partially destroyed due to Muslim rioting in 1947, the Codex Leningradiensis from the 11th century is now the oldest more or less complete text) and the oldest Greek is the Codex Vaticanus dating to the 4th century.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are a piece work of different editions of different books spread over a long time period and do not present a complete text.
If this book turns out to be a reasonably complete text of the Vulgate dating to the 8th century and transcribed by a different group of monks that the Amiatinus, it will be extremely useful for recovering an even more accurate reconstruction of Jerome's Vulgate.
This is important because Jerome had access to Hebrew and likely Greek manuscripts that were older than the surviving texts. An even more accurate Vulgate could help to reconstruct those sources in a way the DSS cannot.
See post 16.
Maybe it weighs a lot.
I don’t have my bible here. Is the 83rd Psalm accurate in this found text?
Hmmm... what about the Book of Kells? It’s got at least the gospels from the Vulgate, though I’m not sure what else it includes, and it dates from the 790s if I remember right.
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