From Hebrew Scrolls to Greek Codices: How the Bible Reached Us
The Bible did not arrive in history as a single bound volume. Its books were...
Manuscripts & Texts
The Masoretic Text: How Jewish Scribes Preserved the Hebrew Bible
Between roughly AD 500 and 1000, families of Jewish scholars known as the Masoretes developed...
Codex Sinaiticus: The Oldest Complete New Testament
Produced around AD 350 and associated with St. Catherine’s Monastery beneath Mount Sinai, Codex Sinaiticus...
The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Thousand-Year Leap Back in Time
Before 1947, our oldest complete Hebrew Bible manuscripts dated to the Middle Ages. The scrolls...
What Is Textual Criticism? An Introduction
No original manuscript of any biblical book survives. What we possess are thousands of copies,...