PaulK
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Message 4 of 16 (58140)
09-27-2003 5:49 AM
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Reply to: Message 1 by sidelined
09-27-2003 1:55 AM
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Of course there are no actual "original texts" of any of the Hebrew Tanakh ("Old Testament"). What we have is the best attempt to reconstruct a single text from the surviving versions that could be made around 1,000 years after Jesus (The Masoretic text). The evidence we do have (Dead Sea Scrolls, textual evidence of additions) suggests that quite major variations were accepted prior to the destruction of Jerusalem - certainly in the Prophets and the Writings. The other problem of textual corruption rather than wholesale additions or editing affected the whole collection - including the Torah.
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PaulK
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Message 7 of 16 (58187)
09-27-2003 2:21 PM
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Reply to: Message 6 by sidelined
09-27-2003 1:55 PM
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Well what about it ? As I said it was the best effort that could be made to construct a single text at the time (6th-10th Centuries AD) - but we know from the Dead Sea scrolls that there wasn't a single text then - there were major variations in some books.
Aside from the known additions how can we tell that the variations preserved in the Dead Sea Scrolls are not closer to the originals than the Masoretic text ?
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