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ificouldhietokolob
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Date: May 25, 2017 10:09AM
Lurk Wrote:
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> Out of curiousity, could you cite some "major"
> differences? I'm aware of quite a number of small
> textual variations with them, but I've not seen
> anything that was a wild departure from the other
> copies.
Tens of thousands of textual variations is indeed "quite a number."
I guess "major" and "minor" are subjective, but as one example:
"An example of the problems he and others ponder: In two of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Psalm 33 directly follows Psalm 31, skipping number 32. Did the scribes who wrote those manuscripts believe 32 was not God’s Word?p. And the opposite situation: Various scrolls include 15 psalms that are not found in standard Bibles. Sample: ‘’Blessed be he who has made the earth by his power, who has established the world in his wisdom…’’ Was this Scripture that was later lost, or did Dead Sea scribes merely collect devotional poetry and mix it with biblical psalms?p. ‘’If Ulrich is on the right track, we’ve got some major thinking to do,‘’ acknowledges John H. Walton, a staunchly conservative professor at Chicago’s Moody Bible Institute. The problem as he sees it: ‘’If it could be demonstrated we have two biblical traditions arising independently of one another, instead of one being a revision or corruption of the other, then which one are you going to call God’s Word?‘"
http://news.nd.edu/news/dead-sea-scrolls-yield-major-questions-in-old-testament-understanding/15 "extra" Psalms -- is that "major?"
You decide.
And that's just one example of many hundreds of similar differences.