Wesley Huff

How many Cuban links can you make out of that? You can see why someone would try to track that down.

How many Cuban links can you make out of that? You can see why someone would try to track that down.

Yeah. Wow. And you know, when we're talking about the Dead Sea Scrolls, like you have ones like the Great Isaiah Scroll, which is fully complete. Like it's a copy of the book of Isaiah and it's a full complete scroll. But then other ones are so fragmentary that we think they're written in Hebrew, but But we can't actually tell. Oh, wow.

Yeah. Wow. And you know, when we're talking about the Dead Sea Scrolls, like you have ones like the Great Isaiah Scroll, which is fully complete. Like it's a copy of the book of Isaiah and it's a full complete scroll. But then other ones are so fragmentary that we think they're written in Hebrew, but But we can't actually tell. Oh, wow.

Yeah. Wow. And you know, when we're talking about the Dead Sea Scrolls, like you have ones like the Great Isaiah Scroll, which is fully complete. Like it's a copy of the book of Isaiah and it's a full complete scroll. But then other ones are so fragmentary that we think they're written in Hebrew, but But we can't actually tell. Oh, wow.

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 –

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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