The readings of this copy eventually diverged into the various Old Testament streams extant today, such as the Masoretic, Dead Sea Scrolls, Samaritan and LXX. Ezra’s Old Testament was surely based on Hilkiah’s copy found in the temple. Ezra, a direct descendant of Hilkiah (Ezra 7:1), canonized the Old Testament and transmitted it to future generations. The Bible clearly portrays this single copy found in the temple as the sole catalyst for the great spiritual revival during Josiah’s time and the rediscovery of God’s words for subsequent generations. One could speculate that Hilkiah found other manuscripts in other places over time, but that would be a speculation since the Bible does not say so. This book found by Hilkiah became the ancestral copy of all the Hebrew manuscripts that exist today. This eradication of the biblical books was so widespread that even the high priest did not possess them until he discovered them in the temple. The book of the law, whether it was just the five books of Moses or a collection of all the biblical books written up until that time, had to be rediscovered during Josiah’s reign because the previous wicked generations under Manasseh and Amon had apparently eradicated the book of the law from the land. The Bible describes a time when Hilkiah the high priest found the “book of the law” (2 Kings 22:8) or the “book of the covenant” (2 Kings 23:2) in the house of the LORD during the reign of Josiah. The Bible is clear that God can use only a handful of manuscripts to preserve his words. Our theory of textual criticism must be based on what the Bible says about textual transmission, not on the philosophies of liberal theologians. There is a theological problem with deriding the Textus Receptus on the basis that its original edition descends from just a few manuscripts. God in the Bible used only a few manuscripts to preserve his words However, these criticisms are unjustified. Critics are quick to seize upon this “flaw” of the Textus Receptus to deride the KJV. Erasmus had before him a half-dozen manuscripts during the editing process. Working inside the monastery for many weeks, Ardon Bar-Hama digitized the entire collection.The Greek Textus Receptus underlying the KJV was first edited by Desiderius Erasmus and published in 1516. It contains mostly documents of a historic-legal character, the study of which permits us to understand intimately the vicissitudes of the Franciscans and the history of Catholicism in the Holy Land.Īs the name itself suggests, the treasury contains, among other things, the official decrees firman promulgated by the Turkish sultan in the course of the ottoman domination. The “Firman Treasury” is one of the richest and most important treasuries of the Historic Archive of the Custody of the Holy Land, today preserved at the Monastery of the Saint Savior. It is held to be the oldest catholic archive existing in the Holy Land, and documents not only the vicissitudes of the nearby religious institution, but also that of the catholic presence in very many regions of the Near East. The Historical Archive of the Custody of the Holy Land has a history of more than seven centuries. To view all pages online please visit: ALEPPO CODEX In 2002 Ardon Bar Hama digitized the Codex, revolutionizing the world of digitization of rare documents, by using a 'One-Shot' digital photography technique, rather than the traditional scanning. In January 1958 the Aleppo Codex was brought to Jerusalem where it remains until today. During the riots against Jews and Jewish property in Aleppo in December 1947, the community's ancient synagogue was put to the torch and the Codex, which was kept in the synagogue's "Cave of Elijah," suffered damage, so that no more than 295 of the original 487 leaves survived. The rabbis and elders of the community guarded it zealously for some six hundred years. The Codex was written in Tiberias in the early tenth century, looted and transferred to Egypt at the end of the eleventh century, and deposited with the Jewish community of Aleppo in Syria at the end of the fourteenth century. It was probably the manuscript used by Maimonides when he set down the exact rules for writing scrolls of the Torah. The Codex was copied by the scribe Shlomo Ben-Buya'a over one thousand years ago. It is also the most authoritative, accurate, and sacred source document, both for the biblical text and for its vocalization, cantillation and Masorah. The Aleppo Codex is the earliest known Hebrew manuscript comprising the full text of the Bible.
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