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Description: A chapter from a book by Sir Frederick Kenyon on the printed Bible.
Sir Frederic Kenyon:The Story of the Bible. Chapter 4-From Manuscript to Print From the description given in the last chapter of the conditions of the earliest Christian generations, it will be easy to understand what a change was produced by the acceptance of Christianity by Constantine, and the simultaneous adoption of the vellum codex as the standard form of book. The peril of the destruction of the sacred books by persecutors was over. A great demand arose for copies to be placed in Churches throughout the Empire. It was possible for scholars to set themselves to compare the many divergent manuscripts, to settle what seemed to them the most correct from of text, and to have it multiplied and circulated. The new writing material made it possible to include all the accepted hooks of both Testaments in a single volume. The very conception of a New Testament, to set beside the Old Testament of the Jewish Scriptures, only finally took form now. From this time forward there was no danger of any serious corruption of the Scriptures. All that took place was a certain progressive editing of them, involving slight verbal variations for the sake of greater clearness, or harmonizing different versions of the same narrative, or substituting conventional phrases for those less familiar. In this way an accepted text gradually came into being, which spread over the whole Greek-speaking world. We cannot assign a precise date to it. There is no record of any authoritative revision of the text at any given moment,comparable to the work of the committees who produced our Authorized and Revised Versions. All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the forth century to about the eighth, a standard type of text was produced, which is found in the vast majority of the manuscripts that have come down to us. At least ninety-six per cent of the extant manuscripts of the Greek New Testament are later than the eighth century; and of these only a handful preserve traces of the other types of text which were in ex
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| Page title: | Sir Frederic Kenyon:The Story of the Bible. |
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| Description: | The Bible has a human history as well as a divinely inspired origin, and this human history is the concern of Sir Frederic Kenyon in his fascinating presentation of The Story of the Bible. Here is a concise account of the writing and publishing of the Bible from its very beginning to 1967. |
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