Bible Quote by Ronen Bergman

“The greatest importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls...lies in the discovery of biblical manuscripts dating back to only about 300 years after the close…

— Philip W Comfort

The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in earlier biblical…

— Geza Vermes

“Scholars call it [the Torah] the Masoretic text. The Masoretes were Hebrew scribes of the first centuries of the present era. They fixed the…

— Herman Wouk

“The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the end of…

— N.T. Wright

Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have allowed scholars…

— Charlie Campbell

All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the eighth, a…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

Had the followers of Jesus remained an obscure Jewish sect, most of you would not have learned to read, and the rest of you…

— Rodney Stark

“Cumulatively, the sheer volume of papyrus and parchment under-girding sacred Scripture dwarf that of any other work in classical history. Consider, for example, Homer’s…

— Hank Hanegraaff

Around A.D. 930, the sages in Tiberias assembled all 24 holy books and completed the writing of the codex, the first definitive Tanakh, or…

— Ronen Bergman

“The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.”

— St. John Chrysostom

Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then edited, then…

— David Cross

“The Dead Sea Scrolls predated the earliest extant text—Masoretic—by more than a millennium.3 Yet when compared to one another, differences in style and spelling…

— Hank Hanegraaff