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Will the Best Bible Please Stand Up?

Data Over Dogma

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The Differences Between the New Testament and the Old Testament

The differences are probably minor in most cases but if we're leaving out entire verses and you know we're changing the ending of an entire chapter on something that's not insignificant. There are a couple places where we have pretty significant amounts of text. In many contemporary translations of the Bible you will have double brackets around this story in a footnote explaining that this is not original to the New Testament. This is something that was added later. And the other the other example to which you alluded I think was the end of the gospel of Mark. We have manuscripts that end Mark with very very early manuscripts that talk about the tomb being empty and they were fearful. Some people think this may have to do with

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