Getting to Know Your Bible

Session 2 Understanding Old

Testament Reliability

Masoretic Text

•Aleppo Codex

•Leningrad Codex

•Bible Manuscript Society

Transcribing Old Testament

•500 BC

•100 AD

•Priestly

Transcribing Old Testament

•Talmud

•Tannaim

•200 to 500 AD

•Amoraim

Transcribing Old Testament

•8th Century AD

•Masoretes

•Masoretic Text

•Errors

•Notes

Transcribing Old Testament

•Chanting symbols

•Vowel placements

•Masoretes

Establishing Transmission Standards

•Talmudic Period

•100 BC to 400 AD

•Meticulous rules

Materials and Equipment

•Charcoal, gum, and water

•Reeds and quills

Materials and Equipment

•Papyrus

•Parchment

•Broken pottery

•Wooden tablets

Other Evidence

•Samaritan Pentateuch

•Nash Papyrus

•Silver Amulets

•Dead Sea Scrolls