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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Again, individual books. When’s the first time that they were put together as a bible in the form that we are familiar with today?

You seem very reticent about it. Could it be that the Church predates the bible?


79 posted on 07/14/2013 4:00:29 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: JCBreckenridge

“When’s the first time that they were put together as a bible in the form that we are familiar with today?”


“In the form”? What does that mean? If you look at Polycarp, or Ignatius, or Irenaeus, who seemed to have the entire collection of the New Testament already together with which they quoted from, if all you’re asking about is when they were “together,” I would have to say: right away. But as to “codexes” or the “form,” which I take you to mean their outward appearance without regard to content... who knows, and who cares?


87 posted on 07/14/2013 4:06:55 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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