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To: caww; Lera; boatbums

“”And stfassisi saying the history given was “uneducated” is just another use of the tactics we see all the time. Again I’ll be back to address this further.””

Try starting here and you will realize the sources you use are meaningless. (It’s best you learn for yourself rater than me putting in my own words)

From Jewish Scribes to Christian Scriptoria?: Issues of Continuity and Discontinuity in their Greek Literary Worlds

by Robert A. Kraft, University of Pennsylvania Emeritus
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rak//earlylxx/SBL2004.htm


430 posted on 02/09/2012 5:52:40 AM PST by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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To: caww; Lera; boatbums; metmom

Here is more good stuff for you to read

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rak/jewishpap.html
excerpts

Scriptio continua, marginal breaks, diacritics, etc.—
Was the use of spacing between phrases, words, etc., standard Jewish practice?
To what extent do early Christian scriptural copies use unspaced Greek?
How do Christian texts use line formatting, maginal marks, enlarged letters, etc.?
How extensive was use of marginal markings in non-Christian (Jewish & other) texts?
What is the evidence for the early use of diacritics (breathings, accents, dieresis)?
Conclusions:

A large part of the problem is inability to identify clearly the evidence (what is “Jewish,” what is “Christian”?). It is reasonable to suppose that early Christian copyists learned from Jewish Greek predecessors from whom they also received scriptural and other texts and/or that some professional Jewish copyists may have joined the early Christian groups (as also some non Jewish professional copyists). Another part of the problem is our desire to simplify, despite our recognition that life then, as now, was not simple. Some people, scholars included, sometimes also feel the need to priviledge some streams of history over others — in this case, it is important to some theorists that Christianity make its unique contribution to the developments. My own take on it is that most of the developments cited as evidence are either general tendencies in the Greco-Roman world of that time, or are most easily understood as developments from the practice of some Jewish scribal groups that somehow influenced early Christian practice. The evidence is still indecisive, but there is enough of it to call into question the older simplifications.

The whole point of this is that the Catholic/Orthodox Church traditions and writings from the Early Church fathers brings synergy into believing the Bible is the word of God.

Separating one from the other means things start collapsing.


433 posted on 02/09/2012 6:33:54 AM PST by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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