Via SunkenCiv.
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.
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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
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.
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Typical Irish hyperbole.
Historic Ireland Ping
Idiotic headline, idiotic article at least with regards to the comparison to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Which is sad, because of course it is an important medieval manuscript. But neither to Ireland nor to the rest of the world does this come within a thousand miles of the importance of the DSS.
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The senior conservator John Gillis stated that he was "transfixed with fear" when he had to restore the delicate document. He said it was “the first early medieval manuscript to come to light in 200 years anywhere in Europe”.“We never before had to deal with a manuscript recovered from a bog,” and said its survival was “miraculous” because normally vellum “shouldn’t survive – it should gelatinize away.
“When he first saw the psalter, ‘it didn’t look like a book at all’ it contained 60 pages of vellum, a parchment made from animal skins, which had been inscribed with “the complete text in Latin of all 150 of the Bible’s Book of Psalms”. He said, “about 15 per cent has survived.”
Read: “How the Irish Saved Civilization” by Thomas Cahill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Irish_Saved_Civilization
About St. Columba, patron saint of Derry, and an important historical figure in Ireland, and for this subject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Columba
disclosure: a great, great, great uncle of mine was named “Adomnan” the ninth abott of Iona, and the chief source regarding the life of Columba.
Bottom line: Ireland remained literate and safe, whilst the dark ages destroyed much of previous civilization from Rome.
Probably took it into the bog to use as toilet paper and lost his ass.
Wait another 650 years and perhaps the Vatican may come out with an opiniuon on it.
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