“Attested By” Is Not “Composed In”
The earliest surviving witness tells us that wording existed by a certain point. It does not, by itself, tell us when that wording originated—or authorize an arbitrary century-long…
Open record →Category: Old Testament Text
12 published records in this controlled archive.
Four Dates Every Manuscript Claim Must Separate
A manuscript’s manufacture, the age of its wording, its scholarly date assignment, and its documented provenance are four different chronological claims. Honest textual history must name which one…
Open record →From Jewish Translations to Christian Pandects
The road from early Jewish Greek translations to the great Christian codices passed through centuries of revision, copying, and collection. A later pandect may preserve ancient readings, but…
Open record →One Book at a Time: Dates, Translators, and Profiles
The Greek biblical books do not share one translator, date, or method. Before a Greek difference can be treated as evidence for another Hebrew text, the translation profile…
Open record →What Greek Scripture Existed Before Christ?
Early papyrus and parchment fragments attest Greek translations of particular Torah books. They do not attest one complete, uniform pre-Christian Greek Bible identical to a later codex or…
Open record →Aristeas and the Seventy: What the Story Does—and Does Not—Prove
The Letter of Aristeas is an ancient Jewish defense of a Greek Torah, not a dated archival certificate for one complete and miraculously inspired Greek Old Testament.
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