[Iscool]

Even modern non-archival paper only lasts a few decades, and that's in houses with heating and air-conditioning. I guess I don't understand what claim you think that Jerome made and which turned out to be false.

I am not the one that made the claim Jerome translated from the originals...How many curious lurkers are out there reading that the Catholic church translated their texts right from the original writings of the Apostles and Patriarchs???

I'm just letting them know there's not an ounce of truth in it...

[Mad Dawg]

So you're saying that when they said "original Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic texts" you (or some person to be names later) thought they meant the original manuscripts, the "autographs"?

Well, that's not what most people mean by that, but since it's unclear and since someone who wasn't familiar with the language of scholarship might think it mean the original pieces of paper, I suppose it's good to clarify for that person that that is not what is meant.

However, to say that there is a lie involved is another thing lacking an ounce of truth. It takes a special kind of effort to parlay ignorance of the language of scholarship on the part of person A into a lie by person B.