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I had this question because I wondered when people from the past hundred years or so started learning about creation/Jesus/Heaven and all that I know so far from Googling is when it was written before it became a book.
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I was writing the same thing. The bible might as well not have existed before people could read it in their own language.The first published Bible was the Gutenberg Bible printed in 1455. 180 copies were printed, most on paper, some on a writing surface made of calfskin. I think there are something like 48 of these Bibles still in existence and some of those are fragments of the original.
Gutenberg also invented the printing press with the first operational one put to use in 1440. This was the catalyst of the Renaissance as for the first time most people were able to read classical literature like the Bible for themselves without having to go through an intermediary who too often 'edited' the contents.
The Renaissance freed minds making the Reformation possible in the 16th Century changing the traditions of Christianity, even in the Roman Catholic Church, forever.
Trivia: It is estimated that a Gutenberg Bible would sell for more than $5 million today.
Well, for the illiterate, it was good to have people read it to them. The problem with that though is that corrupt or manipulative clergy would sometimes 'edit' the content to fit the doctrines of the Church at that time and their interpretations were not quite what the letter of the text intended. They didn't worry about being found out because the Church knew the rank and file parishioner could not read or had no access to scarce Biblical manuscripts.I was writing the same thing. The bible might as well not have existed before people could read it in their own language.
During those times it was illegal to know how, or try to interpret the scriptures. Many people were burned, hanged, and tortured to death because of it.I was writing the same thing. The bible might as well not have existed before people could read it in their own language.
Certainly some discarded/discard the teachings of Jesus but not all, even in the darkest of the dark ages. There were were many dedicated souls and brilliant minds who kept the Church from disintegrating into total depravity.During those times it was illegal to know how, or try to interpret the scriptures. Many people were burned, hanged, and tortured to death because of it.
The interpretation of the scriptures were changed when Constantine legalized Christianity in his attempt to save the empire. Thus the birth of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Interpretation of the scriptures were then used as a control mechanism of the masses.
The teachings of Jesus Christ were discarded.
This is still true today.
It was transmitted orally before it was written.I had this question because I wondered when people from the past hundred years or so started learning about creation/Jesus/Heaven and all that I know so far from Googling is when it was written before it became a book.
Duh!
Sorry, I didn't realize you knew what you were asking. If a scribe copies a manuscript is that 'published'?Duh!
Sorry, I didn't realize you knew what you were asking. If a scribe copies a manuscript is that 'published'?
Scribes compiled manuscripts generally into Old and New Testament books. The Sahidic Old and New Testaments were probably completed around the year 200.I'm talking about the first time the Bible was published as a book.
Ahh. My understanding is that the Hebrew Bible was first written down by the Babylonian exiles as individual books. But the exact mix of books in the canon was not fixed until much later, maybe as late as the 2nd century CE.I'm talking about the first time the Bible was published as a book.
I'm talking about the first time the Bible was published as a book.
The Council of Carthage in AD 397 decided what works would be included in the Christian Bible. soon afterwards Christian Bibles were transcribed into books. The oldest book in the bible is the Book of Job, written about the 2nd. millennium BCE.I had this question because I wondered when people from the past hundred years or so started learning about creation/Jesus/Heaven and all that I know so far from Googling is when it was written before it became a book.
The first published Bible was the Gutenberg Bible printed in 1455.
Let's really think about that....in much of the Middle Ages, it served the Church to keep the people as ignorant as possible and dependent on the Church for their knowledge, religious training, salvation...