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To: Between the Lines

That would be a “Targum” wouldn’t it, if it were an Aramaic bible from the time of Christ. I would think it would be pretty easy to tell if it really were that ancient, and I thought all bibles were scrolls back then.


21 posted on 02/06/2009 10:51:16 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: Unam Sanctam

The Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus both date from the 4th century, and are the oldest known more-or-less complete manuscripts to bind most of the modern books of the Bible into a single codex.

Prior to the popularisation of the codex format there was no such thing as a “Bible,” since the different books were kept as separate scrolls.


24 posted on 02/06/2009 11:02:19 AM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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To: Unam Sanctam
and I thought all bibles were scrolls back then.

It is not unusual to find scrolls that have been cut up and bound into books.

28 posted on 02/06/2009 11:10:12 AM PST by Between the Lines (For their sin of 50 million abortions God gave them over to be an ObamaNation {Romans 1:24-32})
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