Where is original bible

Look at what he said to eve in the garden, Yea, hath God said,… Questioning her did God really say that. If God is the author of one who is the author of the rest?

He lives He lives!!! For the simple reason , the BCE copy called the septuigent does not exist and never did. The example adduced by Tov from 1 Samuel provides an interesting case study. We are assured by God Himself that the Word will remain intact. I have complete faith that the message of the Bible is what God intends it to be. Anyone who researches the source s of the Old Testament and ignores Elephantine is just presenting incomplete research.

We just imagine a border, but nobody has ever been able to draw it on a map. The actual archeology points to Elephantine as being the oldest Hebrew Temple we have. There no evidence of a Temple in modern Jerusalem before Herod, in fact Josephus says there was only an altar of huge white stones, and that Herod removed whatever was there and built the Temple Mount.

The stories of the return of the of the captives to the Temple in Ezra and Nehemiah are exclusively about the restoration of the Temple at Elephantine under Darius II. The names of the people and the events regarding the Temple are the same as the names and events at Elephantine.

Fundamentalists just say the book of Ezra is all mixed up ;-. Elephantine began under Cyrus the Great but was stopped sometime after the reign of Cambyses. It was later rebuilt under Darius II. Exactly as the chronology of the Book of Ezra has it.

Ezra 3 6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the Lord. But the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. Josephus records the writing of Hecateus regarding what was on the Mound in modern Jerusalem before Herod in Apion I, These are most likely the stones Herod used for the base of the Temple Mount wailing wall. Hard by it is a large edifice, wherein there is an altar and a candlestick, both of gold, and in weight two talents: upon these there is a light that is never extinguished, either by night or by day.

As for Jesus? Since this was written when Jesus was 5 years old 6CE , it would have been circulating when Jesus, Mary and Josephus went into Egypt right?

As a place of pilgrimage, Jerusalem was a hotbed of sectarianism then just as it is today. The Elephantine texts are interesting but marginal. They come from a small Jewish community well away from the core community in Judea or in Persia. The text from Kings about Rabshakeh implies that the Judeans spoke Hebrew, not Aramaic, although the two languages are close relatives. Indeed, the relationship of Hebrew to Aramaic, as well as Edomite and Moabite, is close enough to infer that the Hebrew-speaking Israelites came from the east, not from the Canaanite or Phoenician coastal cities.

All the First Temple-era texts from archaeological work are in Hebrew, written in paleo-Hebrew script. Aramaic did not become a lingua franca until the Persian conquest. The Persians made Aramaic one of the official languages of their empire. Before that, it was an obscure language of a small kingdom around Damascus.

The LXX was natural. It surprises me that up till now people discuss about Jesus when the Dead sea scrolls have proven that Jesus is a might of The Romans and a total allegory. Even the Demon whom The satanic kingdom has given power as Jesus has tried to kill me after I refused his warning not to tell people that he is not real.

This is because YHWH revealed whom this entity is to me in The worst thing anybody will do is to talk about this evil name Jesus. Lack of repentance has made it impossible for YHWH to reveal hidden truth about the evil Christianity in this world. The messiah is not Jesus if you are spirit filled to see the messiah you will know that Jesus is a pagan deity zeus without Glory like Yahshua in spirit. From a prophetic standpoint, and on at least some level, historical as well, the fact that the Elephantine Jewish community existed where it did makes it a dubious outlier.

Historically, we have found images of YHWH with a consort, which constitutes a double transgression. Could it offer something of value not generally acknowledged? Possibly, but the evidence needs to be convincingly presented. Interesting that Rose brought up the issue of the Jewish community in Elephantine being mostly ignored.

The earliest language recording Bible verses would be Aramaic, as the Elephantine Papyrus is the oldest existing source. Corresponding themes are the stoppage and rebuilding of the Temple, its walls and doors. Meaning there is a record of Bible events going back at least to BCE. The oldest language that records these events in existence today is Aramaic. Which comes back to the sources of the original Biblical texts. Why no mention of Elephantine? Yet the texts are right there at the Hebrew Temple in Elephantine and Christianity and Judaism mostly brushes them under the carpet as if they were a red headed step child.

Wonder why? First written Text,? Of Bible? What Language? There was separation of letters between words far earlier that the writing of the Septuagint and the final version of the Masoretic text so I dont think that is the cause of the scribal error.. Good point Kelly. On the other hand the inconsistency between the texts is in itself proof that the texts were inconsistent. X, 1, 2. When Rabshakeh had made this speech in the Hebrew tongue, for he was skillful in that language, Eliakim was afraid lest the multitude that heard him should be disturbed; so he desired him to speak in the Syrian tongue.

Josephus says Greek was unaccustomed i. Antiq, Preface 2. Now I have undertaken the present work, as thinking it will appear to all the Greeks worthy of their study; for it will contain all our antiquities, and the constitution of our government, as interpreted out of the Hebrew Scriptures.

I grew weary and went on slowly, it being a large subject, and a difficult thing to translate our history into a foreign, and to us unaccustomed language.

Antiq, XX, 11, 2. For those of my own nation freely acknowledge that I far exceed them in the learning belonging to Jews; I have also taken a great deal of pains to obtain the learning of the Greeks, and understand the elements of the Greek language, although I have so long accustomed myself to speak our own tongue, that I cannot pronounce Greek with sufficient exactness; for our nation does not encourage those that learn the languages of many nations, and so adorn their discourses with the smoothness of their periods;.

He describes the meaning of the changing of Abram to Abraham, and Sari to Sarah using the Greek spellings of the names, Philo is clueless to the Hebrew spellings. What language are Pilate and Jesus speaking in this image? Very interesting—and contextually, very lame.

I appreciate this detailed comment. Why not look at Isaiah 61 as it was quoted by Jesus Christ himself in Luke ,19?

What we see is that the Dead Sea Scrolls are not consistent among themselves. LXX Esaias 61 1 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me; he has sent me to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind;. KJ Isaiah 61 1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;.

Great Isaiah Scroll Qumran 61 1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because YHWH has anointed me to preach good tidings to the weak; to bind up the brokenhearted, to call to the captives liberty, and to the imprisoned the opening of prison. And He will glorify the pious on the throne of the eternal Kingdom. He who liberates the captives, restores sight to the blind, straightens the b[ent]. Luke 4 17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

Very interesting. I have assumed that this was already been done by scholars, but perhaps not. Your email address will not be published.

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Glazer thinks Freer purchased the codex partly because he found it mysterious and beautiful. Freer was a known collector of Asian art, and in , his pieces were officially accepted into the Smithsonian.

The collection didn't physically move to Washington, D. After Freer brought the manuscripts back to his home in Detroit, Michigan, he would occasionally display them in his dining room—which was actually another piece of art he had purchased in London. The dining room, called the Peacock Room, had been redecorated by artist James Whistler in and Freer bought it in and had it shipped to America.

Freer believed that art should be enjoyed for its own sake, said Glazer, so he would display pieces from different time periods and genres together. The way the Peacock Room is currently displayed in the Smithsonian gallery mirrors how Freer displayed it in his home in , said Glazer, complete with Asian ceramics. Glazer hoped that by seeing the Washingtonianus in the former dining room, people would get a better sense of how Freer viewed his own collection.

He was trying to "create this story of beauty that reached back in time and forward into his own time," Glazer said.

All rights reserved. All Shook Up In addition to its rarity, the Washingtonianus is best known for an extra passage near the end of the Gospel of Mark that is attributed to Jesus and that doesn't appear in any other known biblical manuscript. Literary License? Mysterious and Beautiful When Charles Freer bought the Codex Washingtonianus from an antiquities dealer in Egypt in , he didn't know how important the pages would become, said the Smithsonian's Glazer.

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For centuries, the Old Testament has been widely interpreted as a story of disaster and rescue — of the Israelites falling from grace before picking themselves up, dusting themselves down and finding redemption. In this podcast, biblical scholar John Barton considers the historical background to the most influential book in western culture, exploring its creation and how it fits into the histories of Judaism and Christianity:.

So what happened next? The Bible is in little doubt. It tells us that Moses led the Israelites out of their captivity in Egypt whose population had been laid low by ten plagues inflicted on them by God before Joshua spearheaded a brilliant invasion of Canaan, the promised land.

The historical sources, however, are far less forthcoming. Like all good autocrats, Merneptah, pharaoh of Egypt, loved to brag about his achievements.

And when he led his armies on a successful war of conquest at the end of the 13th century BC, he wanted the world, and successive generations, to know all about it.

The medium on which the pharaoh chose to trumpet his martial prowess was a three-metre-high lump of carved granite, now known as the Merneptah Stele. But it is the final three lines of the inscription that has arguably excited most interest among historians. But the Israelites would survive. It would spawn what is surely the most influential book of all time: the Bible. If the early history of the Israelites is uncertain, so is the evolution of the book that would tell their story.

Catherine Nixey and Edith Hall discuss a pivotal moment in religious history, when Christianity became the dominant faith of the Roman empire:. Until the 17th century, received opinion had it that the first five books of the Bible — Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy — were the work of one author: Moses. That theory has since been seriously challenged. Scholars now believe that the stories that would become the Bible were disseminated by word of mouth across the centuries, in the form of oral tales and poetry — perhaps as a means of forging a collective identity among the tribes of Israel.

Eventually, these stories were collated and written down. The question is by whom, and when? A clue may lie in a limestone boulder discovered embedded in a stone wall in the town of Tel Zayit, 35 miles southwest of Jerusalem, in The boulder, now known as the Zayit Stone, contains what many historians believe to be the earliest full Hebrew alphabet ever discovered, dating to around BC.

The Zayit Stone does not in itself tell us when the Bible was written and collated, but it gives us our first glimpse of the language that produced it. And, by tracking the stylistic development of that language down the centuries, and cross-referencing it with biblical text, historians have been able to rule out the single-author hypotheses, concluding instead that it was written by waves of scribes during the first millennium BC.

From about the eighth century BC onwards, the Old Testament contains some real historiography, even though it may not all be accurate. Are we guilty of placing too much emphasis on this question?