{"id":1960,"date":"2008-03-27T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2008-03-27T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T09:49:00","slug":"do-we-know-more-than-jerome-about-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1960","title":{"rendered":"Do we know more than Jerome about the Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris referenced Jerome in the comments<\/a>, and I suggested that we (as a community) now know more about ancient languages and the Bible than he did. Well, I have to confess I don’t know too much about Jerome, and I am certainly no linguist (I leave that to the good looking half of the family).<\/p>\n

What I have in mind is this:
1) we have access to more texts than the Ancients did (eg Dead Sea scrolls and so on);
2) we have access to archaeological evidence that the Ancients didn’t have;
3) I suspect we also have a more nuanced understanding of language (although I may well be wrong on that); and
4) I’m pretty sure that we benefit from a larger and deeper pool of people studying these languages and the relevant texts (eg thousands of PhD students).<\/p>\n

So I would want to stand by the general point, although I’m happy to be proven wrong about Jerome in particular. <\/p>\n

I’d be very interested to know what John<\/a>, Doug<\/a> and Peter<\/a> have to say on this, as they all know much more about it than me.<\/p>\n

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