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Wesley Huff

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2854 total appearances

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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

Actually, you know what, Jamie, if you go up to the search bar and put CSNTM, those letters, csntm.org. So this is the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts. So if you click Digital Manuscript Collection, So they go around the world and they try to digitize all the existing New Testament manuscripts to preserve them. And so you can actually see there on the side, you can click.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

Actually, you know what, Jamie, if you go up to the search bar and put CSNTM, those letters, csntm.org. So this is the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts. So if you click Digital Manuscript Collection, So they go around the world and they try to digitize all the existing New Testament manuscripts to preserve them. And so you can actually see there on the side, you can click.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

Well, I want to look at a papyri and you can go the different conventions of the date or the time.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

Well, I want to look at a papyri and you can go the different conventions of the date or the time.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

Well, I want to look at a papyri and you can go the different conventions of the date or the time.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

Yeah. So ideally, you always want to go look at the original. But because of organizations like CSNTM, which is actually in Dallas, people like me don't have to go to Europe where a lot of these manuscripts are housed. We can look at them. And because these are such high grade that you can figure these things out. So actually โ€“

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

Yeah. So ideally, you always want to go look at the original. But because of organizations like CSNTM, which is actually in Dallas, people like me don't have to go to Europe where a lot of these manuscripts are housed. We can look at them. And because these are such high grade that you can figure these things out. So actually โ€“

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

Yeah. So ideally, you always want to go look at the original. But because of organizations like CSNTM, which is actually in Dallas, people like me don't have to go to Europe where a lot of these manuscripts are housed. We can look at them. And because these are such high grade that you can figure these things out. So actually โ€“

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

A guy I know, Elijah Hickson, he used that and he actually figured out that there was a prominent manuscript, P50, which is a forgery. And so he used that based on like looking at the digital. Yeah, he filled in the gaps within the reps And saw that the words didn't match up when you fill in the gaps.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

A guy I know, Elijah Hickson, he used that and he actually figured out that there was a prominent manuscript, P50, which is a forgery. And so he used that based on like looking at the digital. Yeah, he filled in the gaps within the reps And saw that the words didn't match up when you fill in the gaps.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

A guy I know, Elijah Hickson, he used that and he actually figured out that there was a prominent manuscript, P50, which is a forgery. And so he used that based on like looking at the digital. Yeah, he filled in the gaps within the reps And saw that the words didn't match up when you fill in the gaps.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

And so when he's transcribing the text, he's like, wait a minute, I don't think that word fits in there. And based on that, he's like, yeah, that's a forgery. Because someone has written the text in after that piece of papyri, which is, these forgeries are almost always a genuine piece of ancient papyri. Someone gets it from like the black market antiquities.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

And so when he's transcribing the text, he's like, wait a minute, I don't think that word fits in there. And based on that, he's like, yeah, that's a forgery. Because someone has written the text in after that piece of papyri, which is, these forgeries are almost always a genuine piece of ancient papyri. Someone gets it from like the black market antiquities.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

And so when he's transcribing the text, he's like, wait a minute, I don't think that word fits in there. And based on that, he's like, yeah, that's a forgery. Because someone has written the text in after that piece of papyri, which is, these forgeries are almost always a genuine piece of ancient papyri. Someone gets it from like the black market antiquities.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

Yeah, right there. So P50. So if you fill in these holes, they're called lacunas. The words, a lot of the words don't fit. So someone's come along and they've like written, done a really good job because it fooled scholars. And they've written in the text, but not quite good enough to figure out that not all of the words fit in the gaps that you presented. Yeah.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

Yeah, right there. So P50. So if you fill in these holes, they're called lacunas. The words, a lot of the words don't fit. So someone's come along and they've like written, done a really good job because it fooled scholars. And they've written in the text, but not quite good enough to figure out that not all of the words fit in the gaps that you presented. Yeah.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

Yeah, right there. So P50. So if you fill in these holes, they're called lacunas. The words, a lot of the words don't fit. So someone's come along and they've like written, done a really good job because it fooled scholars. And they've written in the text, but not quite good enough to figure out that not all of the words fit in the gaps that you presented. Yeah.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

I have no idea what to think of the Voynich manuscript. But it's Middle Ages. Yeah. It's just a weird one.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

I have no idea what to think of the Voynich manuscript. But it's Middle Ages. Yeah. It's just a weird one.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2252 - Wesley Huff

I have no idea what to think of the Voynich manuscript. But it's Middle Ages. Yeah. It's just a weird one.