Posted on 04/10/2023 7:24:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The fragment of the Syriac translation of the New Testament under UV lightCredit: Vatican Library
Front five rows are the splash zone.
If we could go back in time and actually see what happened with Jesus I wonder what the story would be. My guess not what we think and what has been embellished over the centuries and turned into Myth.
This is cool!!
SO...what does it say? What Book is it from?
Epstein didn’t kill himself?
Myth huh?
Yeah, that’s why society is so much better now that all the smart people have dispensed with believing that myth.
The above is a common misunderstanding among the uninitiated. The historical scholars have no such myth delusions, and have attested to the existence and crucifixion of Christ.
is there an archive.org link for the full book?
I have a really old copy of this maybe, or not?
https://archive.org/details/thebookofjasher1840/page/n9/mode/2up
“If we could go back in time and actually see what happened with Jesus I wonder what the story would be. My guess not what we think and what has been embellished over the centuries and turned into Myth.”
https://soundcloud.com/user-216129961/art-bell-dr-glenn-kimball-the-lost-history-of-jesus
Lol. Must not be very familiar with textual criticism. Holy Writ has been verified with all the variations. To suggest it is myth is staggeringly ignorant.
Slight differences is what one would expect without a printing press. This variance sounds pretty authentic as it appears to be what an eyewitness saw.
Bkmk
Why even admit there was a Jesus? It would be better if you just discounted Him altogether.
Folks should remember, too, that the relative age of two documents, without more, is not that good a measure of accuracy. Many other factors are considered, including their generations (how many times has it been copied) and comparisons with other copies of the same material. I’m no scholar, but I know there are relatively late manuscripts considered better sources than earlier Hebrew texts of some Old Testament material — in some cases, because they were translated from earlier Hebrew texts no longer available.
https://www.thetextofthegospels.com/2016/02/early-syriac-versions-of-gospels.html
EXCERPT:
Even the two copies that we possess have barely survived: the Sinaitic Syriac is a palimpsest; it has survived, not because anyone valued it as a copy of the Gospels, but because a copyist in the year 778 erased its Gospels-text and recycled the pages as material on which to write part of a later composition (a collection of stories about female saints and martyrs). Its faded Gospels-text was recovered, following its discovery at St. Catherine’s monastery in the 1890’s, by the gentle application of ammonium hydrosulfide to the parchment.
“This overwriting of a rubbed-out text means that it was so bad a rendering that it was not worth keeping.”
Interesting thought. I learned that before writing had been invented they would say the scriptures and if someone got even the smallest thing wrong the next person would pick up the verses.
Same goes for later on when the scribes would write it. And doing a ritual cleansing each time before they wrote the name of God (YHWH). If they even got the smallest thing wrong (like a jot or that other symbol over a letter) they had to toss the entire page iirc.
So - perhaps it was just a small error?? I guess they can compare it to other forms of the same verse.
Definitely! /s
Pushing history and our understanding of it further back in time. Love it!
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