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Handwritten Draft Of King James Bible Discovered: Reveals No ‘Divine Powers’ - Mystic Wanderer - 05-29-2016

The earliest known version of The King James Bible has been discovered mislabeled inside an archive at the University of Cambridge when Jeffrey Alan Miller was researching for an essay about Samuel Ward, and was hoping to find an unknown letter at the archives.
This discovery is being called one of the most significant revelations in decades! It could be proof that the King James Bible is not entirely true!

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Quote:He first came across the plain notebook not knowing what it was — it was incorrectly labeled. That’s why no one has found it until now. It had been cataloged in the 1980s as a “verse-by-verse” Biblical commentary with “Greek word studies, and some Hebrew notes.” When he tried in vain to figure out which passages of the Bible the commentary was referring to, he realized that it was no commentary at all — it was an early draft of part of the King James Version of the Bible.

Professor Miller described what it felt like when he first knew what he had in his hands:

“There was a kind of thunderstruck, leap-out-of-bathtub moment. But then comes the more laborious process of making sure you are 100 percent correct.”

The material in the manuscript discovered by Miller covers the apocryphal books called Esdras and Wisdom and seems to show that the translation process at Cambridge worked completely different than what researchers had previously known. Until now, it had been assumed that six different teams, or companies of translators that is, had worked more collaboratively rather than individually. Yet — this draft throws that idea out the window.

Ward’s draft seems to indicate the people were assigned individual sections of the Bible and then worked on them almost entirely by themselves — a massive undertaking with little guesswork. You would think this would cause people to become more error prone. In fact, quite hilariously, Professor Miller noticed that the draft suggests that Ward was picking up the slack for another translator. This really shows how human the entire job was, according to him.
Quote:“Some of them, being typical academics, either fell down on the job or just decided not to do it. It really testifies to the human element of this kind of great undertaking.”
This is sure to piss off a lot of religious conservatives who claim that the Bible is the “actual word of God.” While this finding certainly doesn’t disprove God, it does show that the translators of the Bible didn’t get a finalized product the first go around — it wasn’t a walk in the park with an angel over their shoulder telling them what to write. It took many different individuals, working separately — and they often suffered from man-made struggles, like meeting deadlines. You know, now that we think of it, doesn’t sound that much different from the writers of today’s workforce.

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This will upset some Christians, I'm sure. Of course, I would think there will be tests of some sort done to prove it's authenticity by the type of paper it is written on, the type of ink, and even the type ink pen; not to mention the correct language of that era.

There is another article about this here: New York Times


RE: Handwritten Draft Of King James Bible Discovered: Reveals No ‘Divine Powers’ - guohua - 05-30-2016

Mystic said:
Quote:This discovery is being called one of the most significant revelations in decades! It could be proof that the King James Bible is not entirely true!

I have to agree with That sentiment.
I've always thought of the Bible as a kind of collection of Children's Stories to instill Fear and Later to teach right from wrong and Humility around a Main Character.
Now this is Just My Humble Opinion,,,, No One Needs To Accept It As Fact!