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Will the Best Bible Please Stand Up?

Data Over Dogma

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The History of Christianity in Eastern Europe

In the early fourth century around the time of Nicaea and the development of our canon we had some missionaries who went south to a place called Aksum which is the kingdom that is now known as Ethiopia. They took the manuscripts of the Septuagint with them before they had whittled it down to what we now know as the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament and even the Apocrypha so their canon is the largest canon in the world. Our earliest manuscripts of the book of Enoch are in Ethiopia at least our earliest full manuscripts and then we found some fragmentary manuscripts of first Enoch among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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