RE: New Revised Standard Version Bible has Dead Sea Scroll input ?!?!
February 16, 2017 at 10:27 am
(February 15, 2017 at 4:54 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: (wiki page if you want: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Revise...rd_Version)Why would this be considered strange?
Did not know any Dead Sea Scroll material could have been utilized in a bible version so quickly, and LOL, NSRV was released in '89. No secret I'm a big fan of the KJV 1611, but I could see the NSRV becoming increasingly useful.
Weird, no? There seems to be quite a bit of support for this version except for some Orthodox christer schisms. Can't please everyone, obviously, and in the christer orbit it seems usual to not be able to please more than one sect at a time.
Of course back in '89 I was otherwise engaged and apparently missed the release announcement, so a sorry I missed this by 28 years.
I might go buy one for my collection. Might look for one on Ebay, maybe I'll get lucky and find one all marked up by a neo-Southern Baptist ??
(one of my Ehrman books has some penciled remarks in the last 1/3, somehow Ehrman comes across as 'too' Jewish. I found the comments hysterical in view of my recently increased appreciation for Jesus's intense Jewishness over his presumed intense Christiness I was previously aware of)
I have made the point in several discussions that 'we' are not responsible for content so much as what has been given to us. Meaning if we are given a bible through our best efforts and our best transcriptions we understand God wants us to aBc, then we are responsible for aBc. So then it is up to God to change his word OR simply forgive us for worshiping in error.
I've made the point that the dead sea scrolls is a perfect example of God changing his word. a Great example is before the dead sea scrolls the 6th commandment was "thou shalt not Kill" after the dead sea scrolls most modern translations shifted to "you shall not Murder." because in out oldest and best transcripts prior to the dead sea scrolls the verbiage was not there to support a prohibition against murder, but all forms of taking human life. Now because the dead sea scrolls that contained the 6th commandment has been confirmed to be older and or perhapse better written/more complete, the command changes from kill (to kill any human) to Murder (to kill outside what the law allows.)
