{"id":8005,"date":"2024-02-02T18:40:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T13:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/the-bible-as-a-living-document\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T18:40:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T13:10:46","slug":"the-bible-as-a-living-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/the-bible-as-a-living-document\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bible as a Living Document"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In this episode of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/peteenns.com\/podcast\"><em>The Bible for Normal People Podcast<\/em><\/a>, Pete and Jared talk with Jennifer Knust as they explore the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is textual transmission?<\/li>\n<li>How have Bibles changed over time?<\/li>\n<li>Why do we have so many English translations of the Bible?<\/li>\n<li>How has our view of the Bible changed overtime?<\/li>\n<li>When did people start caring about the \u201coriginal\u201d version of the Bible?<\/li>\n<li>Is our obsession with the \u201coriginal\u201d version of the Bible harmful?<\/li>\n<li>How have we strayed from the historical tradition of the Bible?<\/li>\n<li>Where do the chapters and verses in the Bible come from?<\/li>\n<li>Why were chapters and verses added to the Bible?<\/li>\n<li>Do chapter and verse placements matter?<\/li>\n<li>How old are the oldest Greek New Testament manuscripts?\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>How do Greek manuscripts present multiple interpretations?<\/li>\n<li>What are the difficulties in translating Greek manuscripts?<\/li>\n<li>How have different people loved the Bible throughout history?<\/li>\n<li>How did the Dead Sea Scrolls actually set us back in our understanding of the Bible?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tweetables<\/h4>\n<p>Pithy, shareable, less-than-280-character statements from Jennifer Knust you can share.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cEvery [Bible] translation is always an interpretation.\u201d Jennifer Knust<\/li>\n<li>\u201cProtestants have a tradition\u2026 that we should assume the importance of the original over and against tradition.\u201d Jennifer Knust<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe can\u2019t assume every copyist [of biblical manuscripts] had the same attitude towards texts that we do.\u201d Jennifer Knust<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Bible is incredibly complicated even if you\u2019re just reading it in English.\u201d Jennifer Knust<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHow wonderful that there were all of these people over centuries who loved these books and tried to copy them correctly as they understood what correctly meant.\u201d Jennifer Knust<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Holy Spirit seems to move through people and nature and interaction and prayer. 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