Sunday, August 14, 2011

OLD TESTAMENT: Very fluid through the ages...

11th century Hebrew Bible with targum, perhaps...Image via Wikipedia


















Ran across a very interesting article in the Detroit news which came originally from the Associated Press; it was titled “Scholars chart drafts of the Old Testament” by Matti Friedman (Aug. 13, 2011) and carried the sub-heading “Goal is to be authoritative source of changes over time”.

The interest here is to people and religions that insist that every word in the Bible is divine, unaltered and unalterable and they refuse to believe that the Old and New Testaments went through countless revisions and translations over centuries and millennia.

These scholars at Hebrew University in Jerusalem have been working for 53 years tracking any and all “evolutions” of the Old Testament through time. Many different versions of the Old Testament have added words or phrases or my favorite, adding a prophecy retroactively AFTER the event(s) actually happened.

The scholars of this “Bible Project” have discovered that the Hebrew Bible was “somewhat fluid for long periods of its history and that its transmission through the ages was messier and more human than most imagine”.

The scholars realize that their work is mostly for other scholars who study the evolution of the Bible through time but I find it interesting that there is critical proof that the words and phrases and books of the Bible evolved through time which means they were redacted many times by humans and still some will believe that every word in the current English version of the Bible is the original word…Abraham did not speak English.
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