[SunkenCiv]

Medieval scribe

Portrait of Chaucer from Hoccleve's Regement (or Regiment) of Princes. [licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.]

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The printing press is definitely one of mankind’s greatest inventions.

[Arrowhead1952]

Our adult Bible study group is studying a series "How we got our Bible". The scribes of past were assigned to write each line with the exact same number of characters and words. The same went for columns and pages.

After the words were written, a second, third, fourth and fifth scribe would check the work and each would write the exact number of words on the bottom of the page. The center word and character would be marked on each page as well.

The accuracy of the Bible had been questioned for years, until the discovery of The Dead Sea Scrolls. The oldest manuscripts were identical to those scrolls.