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Subscribe now wherever you get your podcast. Thank you for checking out this little teaser of the history of the papacy and church.

Here's a little taste of once coming up soon on the History of the papacy and church. Here's a little taste of once coming up soon on the

history of the papacy podcast. You know what would be interesting to find out? How many

textual traditions of Homer were there? That is a good. That's a really good question.

So we'd have a standard to compare.

I mean, was the situation with the Situja just perfectly normal in the ancient world or not, I wonder.

Fast forward a couple of a century or two to the Paul's, the epistles of Paul, which ones are pseudo Paul, which ones are real Paul?

Are they all real Paul?

Are some of them pseudo-apigraphal?

Are none of them Paul?

And then fast forward, I mean, people are to this day argue over the canon of Shakespeare's plays, which ones were really written by Shakespeare,

which ones were not written by Shakespeare.

That's a huge debate in the scholarly community, and that's something that's only, what,

500 years old or less?

Yeah, only 500 years old, and Shakespeare lived during the age of mechanical reproduction of books.

Yeah.

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