…no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. In biblical language prophet and angel both called Holy Spirit.Īll scripture is given by inspiration of God, (2 Timothy 3:16) There are three types of inspiration: (1) Prophet is a chosen man by God from mankind listening God’s voice in dream (2) God talking with prophet from behind veil and (3) Angel comes to prophet with God’s message and recite word to word. It is not from any original scripture, not translation, not available God’s words in original inspiration but man made explanation as their wish. John 8:58, Yeshua said to them: “Timeless truth I speak to you: Before Abraham would exist, I AM THE LIVING GOD.” (Aramaic Bible in Plain English) (Jesus or Yeshua? Complete the sentence on I AM or goes till The Living God?) John 8:58, “Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” (NIV) (was before or born before?) John 8:58, Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. Not only scribes mistaken in old time but today missionaries who adding in it to compete each-other in making money by making new and new versions with claiming that our version is most accurate- see below verse and from which original Greek bible translated? (We know the rule of translation not to add, not subtract any word/s, neither change nor translate the name) The Complete Guide to Bible Versions (1991) by Philip Wesley Comfort Kenneth Connolly, who also has a documentary available on DVD on the same topic. The Indestructible Book: The Bible, Its Translators, and their Sacrifices (1996) by W. While not perfect, this is our best measuring stick to how accurate the Jewish scribes were throughout the centuries. While there are other items found among the Dead Sea Scrolls not currently in the Old Testament, the OT items that were found have few discrepancies to the versions from the Tenth Century. Numerous copies of each book was discovered (For example, 25 copies of Deuteronomy). Every book in the Old Testament was represented in this discovery except Esther. Over the next decade, more scrolls were found in caves and the discovery became known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. In 1947, a shepard boy discovered some scrolls inside a cave West of the Dead Sea. Until 1948, the oldest manuscripts of the Old Testament dated back to 895 A.D. How Accurate Were the Scribes?īeginning in the Sixth Century and into the Tenth Century A.D., some European Jewish scribes continued a similar method for copying manuscripts of the Old Testament in the original Hebrew language as originated by the scribes before Christ. Greek and eventually Latin versions continued to be copied. While a Hebrew version of the Old Testament continued to exist, the language wasn't spoken by many. The final item is why we have no original manuscripts of the Old Testament today.Īfter Jerusalem was sacked by Rome in the First Century, the process was lost.
As no document containing God's Word could be destroyed, they were stored, or buried, in a genizah - a Hebrew term meaning "hiding place." These were usually kept in a synagogue or sometimes in a Jewish cemetery.The documents could be stored only in sacred places (synagogues, etc).The middle paragraph, word and letter must correspond to those of the original document. The letters, words, and paragraphs had to be counted, and the document became invalid if two letters touched each other.There must be a review within thirty days, and if as many as three pages required corrections, the entire manuscript had to be redone.They must wipe the pen and wash their entire bodies before writing the word "Jehovah," every time they wrote it.They must verbalize each word aloud while they were writing.The ink must be black, and of a special recipe.Each column of writing could have no less than forty-eight, and no more than sixty lines.They could only use clean animal skins, both to write on, and even to bind manuscripts.According to the Bible, Ezra recovered a copy of the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) and read it aloud to the whole nation.įrom then on, the Jewish scribes solidified the following process for creating copies of the Torah and eventually other books in the Old Testament. The Jews were exiled.Ībout 70 years later, the Jewish captives returned to Jerusalem from Babylon. The Temple was looted and then destroyed by fire. In 586 B.C., Jerusalem was captured by the Babylonians.