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To: Cvengr
Scripturally, Job, the oldest book of Scripture has references to Lucifer, Satan, angels and fallen angels.

That makes me wonder how much was added to the Bible and New Testament during those many dark-age days preceding Guttenberg's printing press, when Catholic monks were accumulating contents for, translating and hand-writing what finally made it into modern Bibles.

The fact that the Devil and a Heaven distinct from Hades were not in Homer's Odyssey leads me to think that those theological touchs were added by monks.

326 posted on 02/09/2003 8:10:46 PM PST by thinktwice
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To: thinktwice
Job is considerably older than Homer and extant manuscripts were written much closer to their original author than the Iliad.
332 posted on 02/10/2003 3:59:16 AM PST by Cvengr
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To: thinktwice
"That makes me wonder how much was added to the Bible and New Testament during those many dark-age days preceding Guttenberg's printing press"

No need to wonder. Archeology has proven that the bible we have to day is substantially unchanged. Differences are minor (e.g. the dropping of an article), but the information is unchanged.

347 posted on 02/10/2003 10:39:25 AM PST by MEGoody
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