Bible Versions and Translations

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• Errors in the Masoretes’ “Original” Hebrew Manuscripts of the Bible?

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  01/09/2019

  

  The Hebrew Bible today differs from the Bible manuscripts of the first millennium B.C.E. How do we identify alterations? Learn why critical editions of the Bible are essential.   Read more…
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• What’s Missing from Codex Sinaiticus, the Oldest New Testament?

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  11/26/2018

  

  Compare differences in the Biblical text between the King James Version and Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest New Testament.   Read more…
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• Tischendorf on Trial for Removing Codex Sinaiticus, the Oldest New Testament

  Ellen White   •  11/26/2018

  

  Constantine Tischendorf’s chance finding of Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest New Testament manuscript, at St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai—and his later removal of the manuscript—made him both famous and infamous.   Read more…
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• The Sayings of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas

  Robin Ngo   •  09/30/2018

  

  New Testament scholar Simon Gathercole examines what the sayings of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas reveal about the early Christian world in which they were written.   Read more…
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• The Gospel of Thomas’s 114 Sayings of Jesus

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  09/30/2018

  

  Read the 114 sayings of Jesus from the Gospel of Thomas as translated by Stephen J. Patterson and James M. Robinson.   Read more…
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• James or Jacob in the Bible?

  Mark Wilson   •  09/15/2018

  

  How did the Jewish name Ya’akov, properly translated as Jacob, become James in English versions of the Bible?   Read more…
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• Job Challenges God by Suing: God Responds

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  04/25/2018

  

  After losing his health, wealth and children in inexplicable tragedies, the righteous and devout man Job questions God as to what he must have done to deserve such a heavy   Read more…
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• The “Original” Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls

  Noah Wiener   •  03/08/2018

  

  More than 200 Biblical texts written in Hebrew were discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls. How do these ancient Biblical texts compare with the Masoretic Text and the Greek Septuagint   Read more…
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• The Masoretic Text and the Dead Sea Scrolls

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  01/20/2017

  

  Do insights from the Dead Sea Scrolls add to the Masoretic text, and if so, should the original Hebrew Bible text be modified based this information? Scholars from both sides   Read more…
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• Piety Preserved

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  12/23/2013

  

  Many manuscripts—literally, documents written by hand—from medieval Europe were supplemented with decorations that ranged from ornate initials and borders to illuminations that dominated the page. For a largely illiterate population,   Read more…
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• A Sefer Torah in the Bologna Library May Be the Oldest Known Torah Scroll

  Noah Wiener   •  05/30/2013

  

  Italian scholar Mauro Perani dated a Sefer Torah scroll from the University of Bologna Library to the 12–13th centuries C.E., making the manuscript the world’s oldest extant Sefer Torah   Read more…
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• Searching for the Better Text

  Harvey Minkoff   •  07/06/2012

  

  Isaiah’s vision of universal peace is one of the best-known passages in the Hebrew Bible: “The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the   Read more…
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• Searching for the Better Text

  Harvey Minkoff   •  06/21/2012

  

  Isaiah’s vision of universal peace is one of the best-known passages in the Hebrew Bible. Does this beloved image of the Peaceable Kingdom contain a mistranslation?   Read more…
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• Babylonian Talmud Translated into Arabic

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  05/17/2012

  

  After a controversial six-year-long translation project, a Jordanian think tank based in Amman published an Arabic translation of the Babylonian Talmud. After gaining enthusiastic responses to the project from the   Read more…
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• Why Is the Newest Bible Translation in Modern Hebrew?

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  04/17/2012

  

  Reches Educational Projects in Israel recently published its modern Hebrew translation of the Bible. While some believe this newest Bible translation meets the linguistic reality of modern Israeli society, others   Read more…
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• Reflecting on the Power of the Codex

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  09/06/2011

  

  Sometime in the first few centuries C.E., the first bound books—termed codices—revolutionized the way people read the words of prophets, kings, scribes and thinkers.* Unlike lengthy, cumbersome ancient scrolls, which   Read more…
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• Tracing the History of the Bible One Book at a Time

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  08/12/2011

  

  Since 1958, some of the world’s best Bible scholars have worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Bible Project to come up with an authoritative critical edition of the 24   Read more…
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• Comparing Ancient Biblical Manuscripts

  Biblical Archaeology Society Staff   •  07/22/2011

  

  Until it was damaged and partially lost, the Aleppo Codex was considered to be the “crown” of ancient Biblical manuscripts, and was the version of the Hebrew Bible that was   Read more…
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