Help Locating Manuscript Timeline
Good morning, everyone.
Does Logos have a visual diagram of when each manuscript was discovered? (Greek & Hebrew).
At times, I see a note saying, such and such wasn't part of earlier manuscripts, but A) I don't know which manuscripts they're referring to (e.g., the ones found in the cave in 1967, carbonated back 2,000 b.c. -- sorry for not being able to give a more accurate example here, I don't know much about the manuscripts).
Also, assuming there is a visual showing the dates each manuscript was found, which Logos resource can I use to determine what that particular manuscript says (in the English language because I don't know how to read Hebrew or Greek), in opposition to what was later written--kind of like Logos' textual comparison but for the different manuscripts (but it has to be in English for me to understand it).
Thank you for considering helping me with this.
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For the NT, The Greek New Testament, Fifth Revised Edition: Apparatus has a list of when the manuscripts were written. If you don't have that resource there's a similar list in the fourth edition, and in NA28.
A more detailed 'list' is available in Lexham's Manuscripts of the Greek New Testament, but it's harder to see at a glance.
I'm not aware of anything equivalent for Hebrew, sorry.
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I'm not aware of anything equivalent for Hebrew, sorry.
Hebrew Bible Manuscript Explorer ? I don't have it, but the product page says 'dates'.
The bulk of Dead Sea Scrolls manuscripts haven't been dated (fragments). But the larger ones have, along with estimates of whether written in the Qumran group or not (copyists), I think by Abegg and Co.
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Does Logos have a visual diagram of when each manuscript was discovered?
I'm guessing you mean 'written', as Mark highlights above. You're probably still in learning-mode (as are we all), but the CNTSS resource (lists a large number of the variants) can be color-coded in Logos to show when estimated to have been copied, along with the 'strength' of that estimate. It's not a visual diagram, but by color-coding, one can quickly see the approximate shifts in copying.
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Hebrew Bible Manuscript Explorer ? I don't have it, but the product page says 'dates'.
Yes! It's an interactive, but I'd forgotten I had it. That fits the bill. There's an NT version too.
I should have added earlier that you can do a text comparison of the Greek manuscripts (if you have TENTGM), but not in English.
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Thank you all!
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