Have to admit, made me laugh to. The Jews actually did a great job of protecting most of what we now call 'the bible' for a very long time. In fact, Jesus and the first century church used these same 'old testament' books (or tanakh) when this thing called 'christianity' was just getting started.
Are you Jewish? Because if you are in this case you would be the same as us on this forum. Considered non-Christian, by some elements. :)
“In fact, Jesus and the first century church used these same ‘old testament’ books (or tanakh) when this thing called ‘christianity’ was just getting started”
The study of the Scriptures thrived throughout the middle ages, an era in which theology and Biblical studies were considered the “pinnacle of learning” and the “queen of the sciences.” During the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church preserved and transmitted the Scriptures. It is said that two monks working full-time required four years to transcribe the entire Bible. Hence, it was due to their incredible value and their desirability as an object to steal that Bibles were sometimes chained down in churches and libraries (as were other books of high value), and not because of a Church conspiracy to keep the Bible from the masses, as some would assert. To the contrary, the Church did all in its power to transmit the written word during the Middle Ages as it also helped to preserve Western learning and culture. Could care less if it was the New Testament or Old Testament. Fact is fact. The only Christians that existed before the heretic Luther broke the church apart were CATHOLICS. Without the Catholic CHurch there would no Bible, OT or NT.