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History of the Papacy

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🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Personal reading of the Bible really took off in the 16th Century and afterward. Before that though, most people only heard the bible read out loud.

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0:30.5	Traditionally, since those were documents that were meant to be read,
0:33.7	was there any sort of notation on how the reader was supposed to enunciate or, you know,
0:40.0	basically use that text to preach it, you know, for lack of a better word, but to, you know,
0:46.4	enunciate that text?
0:48.9	Not in ancient times, you know, we're doing good just to have things written down, which there's actually
0:56.2	been quite a bit of work done recently on how texts actually probably served as memory cues.
1:05.7	These were not highly literate people, but they probably had the text memorized, mostly, and the text actually
1:14.1	kept them on track. And so in a lot of ways, the text itself is a notation about how to read
1:22.5	it. There are a few interesting texts. I don't think that any of these appear for the 12, but I'd have to go back and look. There's a few scrolls from the Dead Sea Scrolls that actually do have a system of notations for how you're supposed to emphasize various words and inflict. It's called stochography.
1:46.0	And we have several of these texts for the Psalms.
1:50.6	It gives you kind of clues how you're supposed to read, not just what you're supposed to read.
1:55.8	One of the interesting things is that you have actually multiple copies of a couple Psalms and they're
2:03.0	intoned differently. So they had different traditions about how to read. Now, Habakkuk, I don't
2:10.6	know, I always got stuck with Habakkuk on the HMS. Looking for a simple way to stay rooted in
2:16.5	God's Word every day.
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