Monthly Archives: May 2011

 In a previous post I paid attention to some intentional alterations made in some Manuscripts of the Bible. Though many may be deemed trivial and don’t influence our faith or any doctrinal belief, I personally do not want to build … Continue reading →

In a previous post we looked at the harmonizing done by Tatian. But he was not the only person to deliberately alter the text of the New Testament. Around the year 310 A.D. Lucian of Antioch also set out to … Continue reading →

Intentional changes. In some cases it is obvious that certain words were deliberately changed by a well-meaning scribe. This he did to rectify an error that he believed a previous scribe had made. It also happened when a scribe had … Continue reading →

3. Errors due to faulty hearing. A modern Hebrew scroll, of the kind being used every Sabbath to read from. As the demand for more copies of the Bible documents grew, centers for copying of Bibles were founded. In such a … Continue reading →

2. Errors caused by faulty memory or the mind. We first had a look at errors caused by faulty sight of the scribe. Now we look at errors that happened during the second part of his work. After the scribe … Continue reading →

The “jumping” of the eye. In this copy of part of the Codex Sinaiticus, I circled in red three lines containing exactly the same letters. In this post we discuss the possibility of a mistake caused by the “jumping” of the … Continue reading →

The causes for variations. With great care and hard work every copy was made. The scribe strived to produce am copy without any faults or deviations from the original. Because scribes realized that variations do exist in the copies of … Continue reading →

The reliability of the New Testament documents.    When one wants to consider the reliability of any ancient document, three aspects need to be looked at. 1.) How short the time span is between the actual event and the date … Continue reading →

2) Practices in the profession of the Scribe Initially anybody who wanted a copy of any document of the Bible, had to make his own copy or buy one from a professional scribe. To make a copy required an awful … Continue reading →

The Minuscule Manuscripts of the New Testament.  At the beginning of the ninth century a new smaller letter type in running hand, called minuscules was developed. Do note that there was no use of both types of letter types in the same document, … Continue reading →