How We Got the Bible - #1
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Our world is full of books. To the point we don’t pay much attention to them.
It’s easy for us to miss the fascinating story of the Word of God.
Questions people ask about the Word:
Questions people ask about the Word:
Where did it come from?
How is it different from other books?
How do we know the Bible we have is the same Word as in the originals?
It helps us to know how writing and books, in general, came into being.
Bible is very old but not the very first book ever.
Earliest known writings come from Egypt and Mesopotamia.
By 3,000 B.C., clay tablets were in common usage.
Prior to that, hieroglyphs were common in Egypt.
Probable that an alphabet was established in that area around 1750 B.C.
[image of writing on stone.)
Proto-Siniatic Inscriptions found ~ 50 miles from the traditional site of Mt. Sinai.
Good know because most skeptics/critics say that writing was unknown in the time of Moses so he could not have been the author on the Pentateuch.
It cannot be assumed that the veracity of the Bible is in question as it relates to writing.
Writing Materials
Writing Materials
Stone - earliest material
1750 B.C. Hammurabi stele - Babylonian king
[image of stele]
Earliest Hebrew writing - Gezer calendar, poem describing various agricultural activities throughout the year.
[image of Gezer calendar]
Siloam Inscription - time of Hezekiah (700 B.C.)
[image of Siloam inscription]
tells of the successful completion of an aqueduct into Jerusalem (2 Kings 20:20)
[image of Siloam inscription]
Clay tablets in Mesopotomia - Durable, hundreds of thousands from the ancient world still in existence. Help us to understand languages, customs, trade, philosophy, history, religion of the ancient world.
cuneiform writing on clay tablet
[image of clay tablet]
Similar: Ostraca (broken pottery)
Earliest know from 3100 B.C. in Egypt
One with Hebrew alphabet found from about 1100 B.C.
One from about 750 B.C. reference Yahweh. [Image of Lachish ostraca]
[Image of Lachish ostraca]
Papyrus plant - paper-like. In use from 3000 B.C. onward.
Advantage: light, flexible, bigger writing surface. Disadvantage: degraded over time.
Parchment - also called vellum. from leather skins.
Dead Sea scrolls were written on parchment.
the most common writing surface of the ancient world from about 400 B.C. onward to the Middle ages.
20 The rest of the events in Hezekiah’s reign, including the extent of his power and how he built a pool and dug a tunnel to bring water into the city, are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.
20 The rest of the events in Hezekiah’s reign, including the extent of his power and how he built a pool and dug a tunnel to bring water into the city, are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.
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30 He blocked up the upper spring of Gihon and brought the water down through a tunnel to the west side of the City of David. And so he succeeded in everything he did.
Why is all this useful to know?
Criticism of the Bible is in its veracity.
How can claim that what we have in our modern-day bibles is accurate and worth knowing?
Writing predates the events of the Bible.
There are writings contemporaneous with the events of the Bible still available to us today.
More and more ancient documents that reference Biblical people and events are coming to light through archaeology.