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To: terycarl
Luckily for all of us, the Catholics wrote them down, collected them, copied them (by hand) for 1600 years, until the printing press was invented

Izzat so??


In 1440, German inventor Johannes Gutenberg invented a printing press process that, with refinements and increased mechanization, remained the principal means of printing until the late 20th century.


 
 
 
 

2,731 posted on 10/20/2014 6:59:05 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
In 1440, German inventor Johannes Gutenberg invented a printing preLuckily for all of us, the Catholics wrote them down, collected them, copied them (by hand) for 1600 years, until the printing press was inventedss

give or take very few years....they didn't start printing anything for years after the press was invented, there was only one of them until, over time they proved efficient....then people who wanted to print something had to buy a press and learn how to use it. Then they started to print things, I'm fairly certain that the Bible was fairly high on their priority list although I don't know why it should be. The VAST majority of the people coulddn't read mostly because they had nothing to read. Over time, however, as people had access to an affordable book, and had learned to read it ( I don't know what they learned to read on) the bible over many years, became available to all.....1600 years probably isn't that far off....a meaningless number anyway!!....I'll give you a hundred years.....the year 1500 maybe

2,764 posted on 10/20/2014 8:37:47 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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