Exploring My Strange Bible Making of the Bible Part 2 - Old Testament Manuscripts & The Making of the New Testament
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Aug 23, 2017 AI Snips
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Biblical Glazing
- Comparing manuscript families reveals additions to Jeremiah, likely after the original writing.
- These additions, often quotes from Psalms, show how later readers connected different biblical books.
Jeremiah 10 Manuscript Comparison
- Tim Mackie describes comparing Greek and Hebrew manuscripts of Jeremiah 10.
- He highlights additions in the Masoretic Text, absent in the Septuagint and a Dead Sea Scroll.
Masoretic Text and Earlier Variations
- The Masoretes preserved one version of the Hebrew Bible, sometimes inaccurately.
- The period preceding them had more textual variations, requiring careful study.