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In the grip of grace
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Dghall that’s right. As scribes or writers of both biblical, historical, religious and secular manuscripts they did use the palimpsest method of erasing previous writings to save on expenses with new manuscripts all the way up to the Middle Ages. Sometimes diverse layers were left leading to some amazing discoveries of previous works. As to the bible and the church being held answerable to the mere 50 yrs of Dead Sea Scroll scholarship. I don’t think so. The scrolls do shed light on many interesting things, along with some biblical finds as well. But do remember they are mostly a mixture of many non biblical writings most of which would not be accepted into our cannon of scripture anyway. Besides we have thousands of manuscripts that already verify our bible. Throw in the other 1950 yrs of church history along with the many volumes written by the church fathers in which we nearly have the entirety of our bible just there alone. As to the question of the King James Bible being perfect. Well it certainly has stood the test of time.
I will but in.briefly to state that the dead Sea scrolls also contained a full copy of Isaiah the matched the.majority text almost perfectly. 95% accurate.I listened to a lecture by Hershel Shanks, previous editor of Biblical Archaeology Review. He said the Dead Sea Scrolls translation revealed errors in Bible manuscripts that were published later, both Greek (LXX) and Hebrew.
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