Ye Old Bible Blog

Category: Basics Stuff – READ THIS FIRST

  • Facticity vs. Truth

    The final thing that I think is important for readers of this blog to understand is how I think about the truth of the Bible, and why I think that differs from a mundane sort of factual accuracy.  This is an important conversation to have, I think because in the US, one important baseline has…

  • Canonization & Multiple Christianities

    The other thing that is important to note is that all of these manuscripts were just a bunch of scrolls, rather than a single book, and these scrolls hadn’t necessarily been canonized yet. This means that there wasn’t a set list of books for the New Testament, because the New Testament is a canonical list…

  • The Septuagint & Manuscript Traditions

    The Septuagint, abbreviated LXX, is an ancient Greek translation of Hebrew scripture and was a version of those scriptures commonly referred to by the authors of the New Testament and other early Greek-speaking Christians.  Its earliest surviving manuscripts are actually much older than the earliest surviving Hebrew manuscripts (which are mostly medieval manuscripts). There are…

  • The Bible we read is a translation

    Another crucial aspect of this project stems from the fact that the Bible, as most people read it, is a translation of texts that were originally written in Greek or Hebrew.  This means that some nuances are inevitably lost in translation, and it also means that the individuals or committees translating the Bible have to…

  • What’s this blog about?

    Hi there!  This blog is more or less a record of the Bible study that I have been doing. Quite some time ago, I read a book called When God Spoke Greek, which ended up sending me down quite the rabbithole. I ended up reading a lot about the formation of the Bible and early…