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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 podcast. Let's talk a little bit about the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the initial

thought was by scholars after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was there was one Old Testament text,

and the text was copied almost exactly through to what is now known as the Masoretic

text, the text used by modern rabbinical Jews, Protestants, and with a couple of asterisks, the Roman Catholics.

And basically what early scholars were saying was that the Septuagint had certain corruptions

that were either mistakes and translations or added later for some reason.

But further scholarship has shown that that's not exactly the case.

The Masoretic text is accurate and consistent with earlier texts, but so is the Septuagint.

There wasn't necessarily one singular text, an Ur-text, a proto-text, or the fancy word that Gary discovered, the forelaga, and that there was a

diversity of text and textual traditions, and the texts of individual books were in various

states of editing, editing versions, adding additions, and meaning that the texts were evolving.

The Septuagin captured a certain edition of that text at a certain time in history,

and at one time, not too long ago, scholars wrote off the Septuagin as a historical oddity,

but now it's a growing field of biblical studies.

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