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Monthly Archives: July 2012

Build on the Rock

“Build Your House on the Rock” – a lesson taught with the parable found in Matthew 7:24–29 (ESV) Matthew 7:24-29: 24“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds […]

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What The English Bible Cost One Man

What the English Bible Cost One Man The betrayal and death of William Tyndale. by Mark Galli William Tyndale studied at Oxford and Cambridge. He could speak seven languages and was proficient in Hebrew and Greek. He was a priest whose intellectual gifts and disciplined life could have taken him a long way in the […]

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How Bibles Were Made

How Bibles Were Made (from Gutenberg until presses were mechanized in the early 1800s)   The typefoundercasts every single letter from a combination of three metals: bismuth, tin, and lead. Separate sets must be made for different alphabets—Roman, Gothic, and Greek—as well as for capital letters and punctuation marks. Most letters will wear out after […]

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More Than One Bible

More Than One Bible Christians still disagree over the content of the Old Testament The Protestant Old Testament is identical to the Hebrew Bible, though the books are arranged and divided differently. Roman Catholics since 1546 (the Council of Trent) have officially included the “deutero-canonical” or “apocryphal” books. These books were included in early editions […]

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a Book That Almost Made It

A Book that Almost Made It Excerpt from a popular writing that some wanted to include in the New Testament: The Shepherd of Hermas In this picturesque allegory, a shepherd (Jesus) gives strict moral guidance through visions, “mandates,” and “similitudes” to a man named “Hermas.” The former slave-turned-businessman wrote it between 90 and 157 in […]

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How We Got Our Bible – Index

How We Got Our Bible   Christian History, Issue 43 From the Editor—Reading the Bible Backwards Did You Know? The Crown of English Bibles The King James Version was the culmination of 200 turbulent years of Bible translation. Also:The Fiery Man behind the First English Bible What the English Bible Cost One Man The betrayal […]

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Did You Know?

Did You Know? Little-known and remarkable facts about the history of the Bible by David M. Scholer The oldest surviving manuscript of any part of the New Testament is a papyrus fragment containing verses from John 18; scholars estimate it was written about 125. We may have sayings of Jesus that are not recorded in […]

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A Testament is Born

A Testament Is Born Could Matthew take shorthand?—and other intriguing reasons the New Testament may have emerged surprisingly early. by Carsten Peter Thiede “But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger” (John 8:6). Here, in the story of the adulteress, we learn that Jesus knew how to write. But […]

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Other New Testaments

Other New Testaments Much like today, early Christians had their favorite texts, and occasionally, letters or even whole Gospels remained unused in certain regions. Second Peter, for example, was read almost exclusively in its “target area,” northern Asia Minor. Clement of Rome, writing in about a.d. 96 (perhaps several decades earlier) is the first known […]

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Discovering the Oldest New Testaments

Discovering the Oldest New Testaments The bizarre stories behind the great Greek manuscripts. by H. G. G. Herklots There have been many crises in the history of Christianity. Few have been greater than that initiated by the emperor Diocletian on February 23, 303. This last great persecution by the Roman Empire was slow in coming, […]

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