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To: SeekAndFind

It’s not a scroll?


3 posted on 03/24/2016 5:44:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

RE: It is not a scroll?

It is a codex — an ancient manuscript text in book form.

The Muratorian fragment is a copy of perhaps the oldest known list of the books of the New Testament.

The fragment, consisting of 85 lines, is a 7th-century Latin manuscript bound in a 7th or 8th century codex from the library of Columban’s monastery at Bobbio; it contains features suggesting it is a translation from a Greek original written about 170 or as late as the 4th century.

Both the degraded condition of the manuscript and the poor Latin in which it was written have made it difficult to translate. The beginning of the fragment is missing, and it ends abruptly.

The fragment consists of all that remains of a section of a list of all the works that were accepted as canonical by the churches known to its anonymous original compiler.


9 posted on 03/24/2016 5:52:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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