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Missing Booksof the Bible

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Introduction

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Syllabus

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Worksheet for your questions

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Course Website

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Scriptures Lost & Found

• Manuscripts in the News

• The “Truth” behind the Bible

• Why the Manuscripts Matter

• The Great Manuscript Discoveries

• Technology & the Texts

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Manuscripts in the News

March 13, 2014 !

7 New Dead Sea Scrolls !

Phylacteries from Qumran Cave 4

!!

c.100–1 BCE?

Manuscripts in the News Recent Discoveries

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March 13, 2014 !

7 New Dead Sea Scrolls !

Phylacteries from Qumran Cave 4

!!

c.100–1 BCE?

Manuscripts in the News Recent Discoveries

Manuscripts in the News Recent Discoveries

March 13, 2014 !

7 New Dead Sea Scrolls !

Phylacteries from Qumran Cave 4

!!

c.100–1 BCE?

September 18, 2012 !

Gospel of Jesus’ Wife !

Revealed by Harvard gnostic scholar

Karen King !!

c.100s–200s CE if genuine

Manuscripts in the News Recent Discoveries

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September 18, 2012 !

Gospel of Jesus’ Wife !

Revealed by Harvard gnostic scholar

Karen King !!

c.100s–200s CE if genuine

Manuscripts in the News Recent Discoveries

March 3, 2011 !

The Jesus Tablets !

or Jordan Lead Codices !

promoted by David Elkingtonas the earliest Christian texts

!!

c.30 CE if genuine

Manuscripts in the News Recent Discoveries

March 3, 2011 !

The Jesus Tablets !

or Jordan Lead Codices !

promoted by David Elkingtonas the earliest Christian texts

!!

c.30 CE if genuine

Manuscripts in the News Recent Discoveries

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July 6, 2008 !

The Gabriel Revelation or the Jeselsohn Stone

!!

Described by paleographer Ada Yardeni as “a Dead Sea Scroll on stone”

!!

c.50–1 BCE

Manuscripts in the News Recent Discoveries

July 6, 2008 !

The Gabriel Revelation or the Jeselsohn Stone

!!

Described by paleographer Ada Yardeni as “a Dead Sea Scroll on stone”

!!

c.50–1 BCE

Manuscripts in the News Recent Discoveries

May 2006 !

The Gospel of Judas !

From Codex Tchachos !

Featured in a special byNational Geographic

!!

c.200s-300s CE Greek original 160 CE?

Manuscripts in the News Recent Discoveries

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May 2006 !

The Gospel of Judas !

From Codex Tchachos !

Featured in a special byNational Geographic

!!

c.200s-300s CE Greek original 160 CE?

Manuscripts in the News Recent Discoveries

May 2006 !

The Gospel of Judas !

From Codex Tchachos !

Featured in a special byNational Geographic

!!

c.200s-300s CE Greek original 160 CE?

Manuscripts in the News Recent Discoveries

May 2006 !

The Gospel of Judas !

From Codex Tchachos !

Featured in a special byNational Geographic

!!

c.200s-300s CE Greek original 160 CE?

Manuscripts in the News Recent Discoveries

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May 2006 !

The Gospel of Judas !

From Codex Tchachos !

Featured in a special byNational Geographic

!!

c.200s-300s CE Greek original 160 CE?

Manuscripts in the News Recent Discoveries

Manuscripts in the News How the Media Packages Discoveries

14 December 1993

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6 June 1995

30 September 1997

24 August 1999

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11 June 1996

Manuscripts in the News How the Tabloids Package Discoveries

• The texts prophesy events now ▪ some catastrophic, others optimistic ▪ sense that the “lost” has been found to help us

• Scholars are sometimes quoted ▪ but they’re not always real people ▪ more about giving an impression of

legitimacy

• Conspiracy theories abound ▪ manuscripts were lost because they threaten

someone ▪ and now they could shake everything up!

Manuscripts in the News How the Media Packages Discoveries

mainstream

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Manuscripts in the News How the Media Packages Discoveries

• From science desk, not religion ▪ religion is old, familiar, tired ▪ journalists want scoops, discoveries that

subvert familiar beliefs – that’s what science does

• The first “frame” is hard to change ▪ “locking in” a particular explanation ▪ understanding subsequent scholarly debates

is tough, and scholars don’t make it easier

• The need for public interest can promote sensationalizing ▪ giving too much play to marginal views ▪ exacerbating conspiracy theories

mainstream

Tabloid or Mainstream? !

You be the judge…

The Gabriel Revelation or the Jeselsohn Stone

!

National Geographic TV

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The Gabriel Revelation or the Jeselsohn Stone

!National Geographic TV

Online ad for Smithsonian Channel Program about the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife

program pulled when questions surfaced about the papyrus’ authenticity !

!

Then you’ll see the official videofrom Harvard Divinity School

do you notice any differences?

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program pulled when questions surfaced about the papyrus’ authenticity !

Smithsonian Channel

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Harvard Divinity School Press Release about the discovery of The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife

!Karen King is a faculty member at HDS

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The Truth behind

the Bible

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Where it comes from…

“Bible” comes from τα βιβλια = the books

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TEXT

APPARATUS  (annotations)

How Scholars Build the Bible

• They gather all the available manuscript evidence

• They compare every overlapping verse

• If verses differ, they have to make a judgment about which version is earliest

• They create a composite text verse by verse in the original language

• This is translated for readers today

• New manuscript discoveries are folded in

Eugene Ulrich

Chief editor of the biblical DSS mss

At work in the scrollery at the Rockefeller Museum, East Jerusalem

October 1995

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4QSamuela

Col. 10 (1 Sam 10:27 + addition –11:2)

New American Bible 1970

Ulrich Dissertation 1978

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New Revised Standard Version 1991

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Why the Manuscripts

Matter

When the extant manuscripts

were copied

1000 BCE

1 BCE / 1 CE

1200 CE

When the books of the Bible were written

TorahProphets Writings

Hebrew Bible

100

200

300

400

500

600

273 mss

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When the extant manuscripts

were copied

1000 BCE

1 BCE / 1 CE

1200 CE

When the books of the Bible were written

TorahProphets Writings

Gospels Acts Epistles

Revelation

Hebrew Bible New Testament

100

200

300

400

500

600

129 mss (600-1500 CE)

48 mss

29

23

25

5

5000+ total

mostly fragmentary papyri

pOxy

Sinaiticus & other major codices Gnostic

mss

DSS

The Manuscript Basisof ModernVersions

1000 BCE

1 BCE / 1 CE

1200 CE

When the books of the Bible were written

TorahProphets Writings

Gospels Acts Epistles

Revelation

Hebrew Bible New Testament

100

200

300

400

500

600

DSS

129 mss (600-1500 CE)

48 mss

29

23

25

5

5000+ total

Douay Rheims (1582)

based on the Latin Vulgate

1000 BCE

1 BCE / 1 CE

1200 CE

When the books of the Bible were written

TorahProphets Writings

Gospels Acts Epistles

Revelation

Hebrew Bible New Testament

100

200

300

400

500

600

129 mss (600-1500 CE)

48 mss

29

23

25

5

5000+ total

King James Version

(1611)

The Manuscript Basisof ModernVersions

DSS

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1000 BCE

1 BCE / 1 CE

1200 CE

When the books of the Bible were written

TorahProphets Writings

Gospels Acts Epistles

Revelation

Hebrew Bible New Testament

100

200

300

400

500

600

129 mss (600-1500 CE)

48 mss

29

23

25

5

5000+ total

Revised Standard

Version (1901)

The Manuscript Basisof ModernVersions

DSS

1000 BCE

1 BCE / 1 CE

1200 CE

When the books of the Bible were written

TorahProphets Writings

Gospels Acts Epistles

Revelation

Hebrew Bible New Testament

100

200

300

400

500

600

129 mss (600-1500 CE)

48 mss

29

23

25

5

5000+ total

New American

Bible (1970)

The Manuscript Basisof ModernVersions

DSS

1000 BCE

1 BCE / 1 CE

1200 CE

When the books of the Bible were written

TorahProphets Writings

Gospels Acts Epistles

Revelation

Hebrew Bible New Testament

100

200

300

400

500

600

129 mss (600-1500 CE)

48 mss

29

23

25

5

5000+ total

New Revised

Standard Version

(1990)

The Manuscript Basisof ModernVersions

273 mss

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1000 BCE

1 BCE / 1 CE

1200 CE

When the books of the Bible were written

TorahProphets Writings

Gospels Acts Epistles

Revelation

Hebrew Bible New Testament

100

200

300

400

500

600

129 mss (600-1500 CE)

48 mss

29

23

25

5

5000+ total

New Revised

Standard Version

(1990)

The Manuscript Basisof ModernVersions

5

21

12

5

6

1

273 mss

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TheGreat

Manuscript Discoveries

Great Manuscript Discoveriesof the Past Two Centuries

Dead Sea Scrolls (1947-1955) Thousands of parchment and papyrus fragments from almost 900 different manuscripts, including almost every book of the Jewish scriptures, mostly in Hebrew

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The Isaiah Scroll from Cave 1 (1QIsaa)

Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments bought from the Bedouin

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Piecing together the manuscripts

Excavating the Site

Great Manuscript Discoveriesof the Past Two Centuries

Oxyrhynchus Papyri (1896-1907) Tens of thousands of papyrus fragments of classical and Hellenistic Greek works, documents from daily life, and Jewish and Christian texts, including biblical books

Dead Sea Scrolls (1947-1955) Thousands of parchment and papyrus fragments from almost 900 different manuscripts, including almost every book of the Jewish scriptures, mostly in Hebrew

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Oxford University Researchers Grenfell & Hunt

The Dump at Oxyrhynchus

Sifting the Site

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Grenfell & Hunt on site in 1896

Great Manuscript Discoveriesof the Past Two Centuries

Codex Sinaiticus (1859) 4th century copy of the entireGreek Bible

Oxyrhynchus Papyri (1896-1907) Tens of thousands of papyrus fragments of classical and Hellenistic Greek works, documents from daily life, and Jewish and Christian texts, including biblical books

Dead Sea Scrolls (1947-1955) Thousands of parchment and papyrus fragments from almost 900 different manuscripts, including almost every book of the Jewish scriptures, mostly in Hebrew

St. Catherine’s Monastery Sinai Peninsula, Egypt

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Constantine von Tischendorf & Codex Sinaiticus

Other Major Codices

Vaticanus

Alexandrinus

Ephraemi Rescriptus

Great Manuscript Discoveriesof the Past Two Centuries

Codex Sinaiticus (1859) 4th century copy of the entireGreek Bible

Oxyrhynchus Papyri (1896-1907) Tens of thousands of papyrus fragments of classical and Hellenistic Greek works, documents from daily life, and Jewish and Christian texts, including biblical books

Nag Hammadi (1945) 13 books with 52 separate “tractates” 4th century copies of earlier Gnostic Christian works

Dead Sea Scrolls (1947-1955) Thousands of parchment and papyrus fragments from almost 900 different manuscripts, including almost every book of the Jewish scriptures, mostly in Hebrew

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Muhammad Ali Sammanwho discovered the codices

The 13 Nag Hammadi Codices

Scholars studying the codices at the Coptic Museum in Cairo

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Technology& the Texts

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Part of the “Thanksgiving Scroll”from Cave 11 (11QHa)

Part of the same scroll, magnified,under normal (left) and

infrared (right) light

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