Sentences with phrase «biblical manuscripts there»

In addition to those 225 Biblical manuscripts there was recovered three Apocryphal Scriptures: «Tobit», «Ben Sira» (also known as «Sirach» or «Ecclesiasticus»), and «Baruch 6 ′ (also known as «Letter of Jeremiah»).

Not exact matches

Well, although I don't believe that there is any way to prove God nor do I think we will ever come particularly close even, I believe that the historical evidence in the form of copies of biblical manuscripts and the ancient towns archeologists have found that are in the Bible point to the Bible is a true authoritative book.

While Mary may have never been called an apostle, there was an apostle Junia (Rom 16:7 — the «of note among the apostles» that the ESV and other masculinist translations try to pigeonhole this into is a modern invention, not at all supported by biblical Greek; it was only even created when the masculinists finally had to admit that there was no manuscript evidence for transforming the name into «Junias», a masculine form), and there certainly was a Priscilla who «instructed Apollos» (Acts 18) and who was lauded by Paul as a «fellow worker» (Rom 16:3), as were numerous other women, such as Phoebe the deacon (Rom 16:1).

And I will say it is indeed, and there are many similar explicable irregularities in three millennia of the copying and recopying of thousands of biblical manuscripts.

«There were a lot of people in the ancient world who thought that lying could serve a greater good,» says Ehrman, an expert on ancient biblical manuscripts.