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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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To: SeekAndFind

What kind of material is it written on?


11 posted on 03/24/2016 6:03:33 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: SeekAndFind

So, it comes from the 7th century, and might be quoting works from 170 to 400. Not sure it represents what it is being claimed to. But most of this is faith, anyways.


17 posted on 03/24/2016 6:11:42 PM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: SeekAndFind

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.

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So there is still room for doubt it seems.


20 posted on 03/24/2016 6:21:02 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve read that the entire New Testament could be compiled from the numerous and accurate quotations and citings from the writings of the church leaders called the Early Church Fathers.


38 posted on 03/24/2016 9:40:21 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: SeekAndFind
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.

50 posted on 03/25/2016 5:47:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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