How far are we to DIGITIZING all the NEW TESTAMENT Manuscripts?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Looking at a brief summary from INTF on how many biblical manuscripts have been catalogued, digitized, indexed and transcribed. As most may know, it takes a tremendous amount of work and man power to digitized the plethora of New Testament Manuscripts! The papyri manuscripts are mostly done, but then the Uncial manuscripts, minuscules and lectionary manuscripts still have a tremendous amount of work to do. Regardless of your position, weather your a critical text, Byzantine Text, Majority Text, Textus Receptus or even a King James Version onlyist, one things for certain, keeping tabs on our Biblical Manuscripts is important work, so I wanted to shine a light on what's been done vs what still needs to be done!
Thank you, Brother Dwayne 🌹⭐🌹
Keep up the great work brother 👍💪
Fantastic!!
This is wonderful info. We appreciate this video.
I love that this work is being done, but it frustrates me that access to some of these documents is restricted. But yes, thankful some people are working on this.
I saw yesterday that the INTF announced they'd added 10 new manuscripts from the Mount Athos monasteries on the Liste. They also said they'd reached about 5700 catalogued manuscripts from 43 countries. The Mt Athos monasteries make up about 18% of their total, so if I'm doing my maths right, they account for roughly 1000 of their total catalogued texts. I'd love to know exactly how many GNTs and LXXs are there - they list about 15,000 manuscripts between the 21 monasteries, but by their own records most seem to be non-Biblical texts.
CSNTM gives free access to all these mss.
No they dont :( There's a number of manuscripts that require special permissions to view, as per the requirement from the owner of the manuscripts.
@@Dwayne_Green Booo. I thought all his work was available to the public.
Perhaps Christians need to get together and raise enough funds that we can purchase these restricted documents from their controlling athiest owners. But yes, at least these restricted ones are going some way to being preserved.
I like statistics! This might not be done till my Grandkids I dont have yet are retired, but someday, they could click a button and see results that take a lifetime now. It will be a gift for the people of the future.
Im not saying the result will change scripture. Rather, people will know what they are talking about when they throw manuscript numbers around.
I used to work in the insurance industry and when I left we were just beginning to apply AI to reading paper applications. It won't be long now until AI is able to read minuscule manuscripts. If I had to guess... 5 years AT MOST. So I think it will be done long before your grandkids!
@@Dwayne_Green That would be great! I definitely cannot read miniscules. I have been slowly working through a book to learn Koine Greek over the last couple years, and at first I would pull up manuscripts to practice reading or to look something up, and if I clicked on a miniscule I would be like, "woah! What language is that!?"
Very interesting Dwayne. I must point out that going by the methods of the Critical and Majority theorists we still don't have God's Word since we havn't really looked at all of the manuscript evidence out there. We note that the Critical theories (which include yours, could change with any further discoveries made here). Yet, the one method that doesn't need all the evidence looked at is the faith based, biblical based method of the TR position. We assert that we have God's Word and the People of God have indeed always had it. Add to this, all the manuscripts that have been destroyed or buried etc. It only multiplies the problem.
Not a dig at you, I love your work, just a dig at the modern theories which you have also taken part.
I hear you! I understand the criticism of the methods.