Wesley Huff

Because no one's willing to, like, piece these – and this is true for a lot of stuff. So, like, the largest grouping of papyri literature in the world is the Oxyrhynchus Collection, which we get a good portion of our oldest manuscripts of the New Testament from. But if you go to Oxford and you –

Because no one's willing to, like, piece these – and this is true for a lot of stuff. So, like, the largest grouping of papyri literature in the world is the Oxyrhynchus Collection, which we get a good portion of our oldest manuscripts of the New Testament from. But if you go to Oxford and you –

look at the ox or the ox or rink is collection and you pull out that drawer it just it's it's like a jigsaw puzzle and you're like right like most of it is is untranslated untranscribed because the amount of man hours that it would just take to even put it together never mind then go to the effort of transcribing and translating it and most people are not willing to do that and if you're missing chunks how do you even make that puzzle connect you

look at the ox or the ox or rink is collection and you pull out that drawer it just it's it's like a jigsaw puzzle and you're like right like most of it is is untranslated untranscribed because the amount of man hours that it would just take to even put it together never mind then go to the effort of transcribing and translating it and most people are not willing to do that and if you're missing chunks how do you even make that puzzle connect you

look at the ox or the ox or rink is collection and you pull out that drawer it just it's it's like a jigsaw puzzle and you're like right like most of it is is untranslated untranscribed because the amount of man hours that it would just take to even put it together never mind then go to the effort of transcribing and translating it and most people are not willing to do that and if you're missing chunks how do you even make that puzzle connect you

Well, that's part of... So part of my area of speciality in research is in regards to that. So I study paratextual features. We're really going to get nerdy today. Let's get nerdy. So you look at the features of the manuscripts, not necessarily the words, but things like the spaces between the words, the development of punctuation, indentation or outdentation. And I look at the margins of...

Well, that's part of... So part of my area of speciality in research is in regards to that. So I study paratextual features. We're really going to get nerdy today. Let's get nerdy. So you look at the features of the manuscripts, not necessarily the words, but things like the spaces between the words, the development of punctuation, indentation or outdentation. And I look at the margins of...

Well, that's part of... So part of my area of speciality in research is in regards to that. So I study paratextual features. We're really going to get nerdy today. Let's get nerdy. So you look at the features of the manuscripts, not necessarily the words, but things like the spaces between the words, the development of punctuation, indentation or outdentation. And I look at the margins of...

And I try to, based on the average size of manuscripts in and around that time, and also the average spacing of words and the margins on top, bottom, and the side, recreate what the manuscript could have possibly looked like.

And I try to, based on the average size of manuscripts in and around that time, and also the average spacing of words and the margins on top, bottom, and the side, recreate what the manuscript could have possibly looked like.

And I try to, based on the average size of manuscripts in and around that time, and also the average spacing of words and the margins on top, bottom, and the side, recreate what the manuscript could have possibly looked like.

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So that one is fascinating. So this isn't true for all of the Dead Sea Scrolls. But when we discovered the Great Isaiah Scroll, previous to that, the earliest copy of Isaiah that we had was in the Masoretic text, which is in the Middle Ages.

So that one is fascinating. So this isn't true for all of the Dead Sea Scrolls. But when we discovered the Great Isaiah Scroll, previous to that, the earliest copy of Isaiah that we had was in the Masoretic text, which is in the Middle Ages.

So that one is fascinating. So this isn't true for all of the Dead Sea Scrolls. But when we discovered the Great Isaiah Scroll, previous to that, the earliest copy of Isaiah that we had was in the Masoretic text, which is in the Middle Ages.

Yeah. So it was literally a thousand years. We literally pushed back our understanding of Isaiah a thousand years. And the thing that really shocked scholars, like I said, this isn't true for all the Dead Sea Scrolls, but one of the things that shocked them about Isaiah was that it was word for word identical to the Masoretic text.

Yeah. So it was literally a thousand years. We literally pushed back our understanding of Isaiah a thousand years. And the thing that really shocked scholars, like I said, this isn't true for all the Dead Sea Scrolls, but one of the things that shocked them about Isaiah was that it was word for word identical to the Masoretic text.

Yeah. So it was literally a thousand years. We literally pushed back our understanding of Isaiah a thousand years. And the thing that really shocked scholars, like I said, this isn't true for all the Dead Sea Scrolls, but one of the things that shocked them about Isaiah was that it was word for word identical to the Masoretic text.