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To: circlecity

Jerome was concerned that he lacked hebrew originals. He didn’t know what we know now that many of these books were written originally in Greek. Of the ones originally published in Hebrew - we have better manuscripts today that available to Jerome.

Oddly enough the list coincides precisely with the gap between the Greek and Hebrew originals. I wonder why that is.


208 posted on 07/14/2013 5:16:36 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: JCBreckenridge; circlecity

“Jerome was concerned that he lacked hebrew originals.”


Jerome wasn’t concerned that he lacked the “Hebrew originals.” He was concerned that the Jews did not consider them canonical, and so did not include them. 1 Maccabees is available in Hebrew, so he said, but he did not include it. There are no new “manuscripts” that suddenly make Judith, for example, canonical scripture, despite it being filled with historical and geographical errors.


217 posted on 07/14/2013 5:23:18 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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