Dr. Dylan Johnson

And then we also have something called the Dead Sea Scrolls.

So these are more or less all of the biblical manuscripts.

Adam and Eve narrative, no major variance there, but there are some pretty dramatic changes.

And then we have something called the Septuagint.

This is the Greek translation from the Hebrew, which is about 3rd century BCE.

So these are our oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible.

It's not even in Hebrew, it's in Greek.

And there we have some major variants, again, not major variants for our narrative, but for the book of Samuel, for the book of Jeremiah, for instance, these are almost different versions of those books.

So there's sometimes some major variants that we're going to encounter.

No, original, no.

Original, that's a really thorny question too.

What's the original scroll?

Some of them you can.

So the Aleppo Codex, you can go, if you ever find yourself in St.

Petersburg and go to the Hermitage Museum, that's where it's stored.

I don't know what access is like, but that's where it is.

Yeah, they're pretty fragile.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are kind of distributed around a few museums, but the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, that has the majority of them.

The Septuagint, these are stored in places like the Vatican Library.

So again, they're there.