2.17 Recovering the Bible: A Century of Revelations

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 4 March 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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So much to cover: the discovery of the oldest Jewish bible, the Leningrad Codex; and the oldest Christian bible, the Codex Sinaticus. At the Cairo Geniza, finds revealed another thousand years of manuscripts. The Didache was recovered, and another bunch of books discovered in an obscure tomb in Egypt, revealing a Christianity hitherto unknown. The Dead Sea Scrolls then showed that Judaism was not the dessicated religion that the New Testament described.

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0:00.0	Gide. I'm Gary Stevens.
0:08.0	And welcome to the second series of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:13.1	More of the history in more of the books in all the Bibles.
0:19.8	Episode 2.17
0:22.2	Recovering the Bible, a century of revelations.
0:28.9	In the last episode, I introduced those fan favourites, the Essence.
0:35.1	Much of our image of the sect is derived from the collection of scrolls found at
0:40.9	Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, with which the Essens are famously associated. The traditional
0:48.2	consensus is that those scrolls were written by and for the Essens. But arguments can be made that very few of the scrolls were written by and for the Essens.
1:00.2	But arguments can be made that very few of the scrolls originate with the sect,
1:05.5	and that we have no idea which groups produce them or why,
1:08.6	and how they ended up at Qumran.
1:14.6	If that is so, then we really know very little of the Essence. Let's explore those famous scrolls.
1:18.6	The unearthing of the scrolls culminated a hundred years
1:22.6	of astonishing literary revelations.
1:25.6	I have to rewind to the beginning of that century of discovery.
1:31.2	In 1850, the world of the ancient Middle East and Egypt was only just beginning to reveal itself.
1:39.6	The language of ancient Egypt had been cracked, and the ancient languages of Mesopotamia were on the
1:45.9	verge of decipherment. The most ancient documents the Victorians had were stone inscriptions and
1:53.6	cuneiform tablets. By accident and bravado, European archaeological swashbucklers had uncovered a bewildering range of material
2:04.7	that could be unquestionably dated to the most ancient periods of Egypt and Mesopotamia,
2:12.0	Assyria and Babylon and Persia.
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