medieval vowels may not be the best guide typos happen but as for the consonants at least we can be secure about that right again all our bibles are based on an 11th century manuscript but there's also this thing you may have heard of called the Dead Sea Scrolls and they preserved copies of biblical books too obviously and here's the bummer the versions of the biblical books in the Dead Sea Scrolls are not always the same as ours some differences are not so important right you know they're spelled differently or a word is flipped here and
there and of course I'm sure there are some typos but some differences in the de scrolls are more substantial so here's a quick easy example uh from the middle of Exodus uh from Mount Si who went up Mount Si to go see God right and the uh the Mt which is the mastic text that's our Leningrad and Standard Bible um it's Aaron nadav AIU and 70 elders in the Dead Sea Scrolls it's just it's Aaron nadav AIU and Alazar and edar and the 70 elders so this isn't a typo right this is two extra people
who get to see God right and some of the differences with the dead SE scrolls are uh are worse still for our purposes in the middle of Exodus 18 for example the Dead Sea Scrolls just toss in 10 verses out of Deuteronomy 1 so the Dead Sea Scrolls uh are the oldest texts we have of the Hebrew Bible uh from the second century CE but the septu agent the Greek translation is uh is equally old from the third Century BC did I just say that the DEA Scrolls were from the second century CE I meant
BC the subagent is from the third Century BC and the subagent isn't a translation of the Bible that we know and love again some differences are minor but some are pretty huge so the book of Jeremiah in the septu in the Greek is a sixth shorter than it is in the Hebrew text so you know I hope that you don't base like your entire faith on that sixth of Jeremiah that would be uh problematic which is to say the septu agent wasn't translating a text of the Hebrew sorry was translating a text of the Hebrew
Bible that was very different from the text that we have uh today again we think of our Bibles as the Bible right when you pick up a Bible you've picked up the Bible but why right shouldn't we give more credit to the older Witnesses shouldn't a second century BC Hebrew text be more authoritative than one from the 11th century ad
