Wesley Huff

Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah. I mean, it's only really been recently that we have the levels of literacy that we have today. I mean, this is part of the reason why you have these long spans of time between like when people live and then the ancient biographies that start to pop up about them is because most people are just illiterate.

Yeah. I mean, up until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament manuscripts predated the Old Testament manuscripts by a long shot. Really? Yeah. Because the Christians were... The Christians were less discerning in their proliferation of written documents. So the Jews had this whole system where you had to be a trained scribe.

Yeah. I mean, up until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament manuscripts predated the Old Testament manuscripts by a long shot. Really? Yeah. Because the Christians were... The Christians were less discerning in their proliferation of written documents. So the Jews had this whole system where you had to be a trained scribe.

Yeah. I mean, up until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament manuscripts predated the Old Testament manuscripts by a long shot. Really? Yeah. Because the Christians were... The Christians were less discerning in their proliferation of written documents. So the Jews had this whole system where you had to be a trained scribe.

And they were very, very careful with the procedures that you went through. Whereas the Christians were like, we want to get this thing out as fast as we can, as often as we can. Which had a lot of benefits in that their goal was... proselytization and evangelism and that worked.

And they were very, very careful with the procedures that you went through. Whereas the Christians were like, we want to get this thing out as fast as we can, as often as we can. Which had a lot of benefits in that their goal was... proselytization and evangelism and that worked.

And they were very, very careful with the procedures that you went through. Whereas the Christians were like, we want to get this thing out as fast as we can, as often as we can. Which had a lot of benefits in that their goal was... proselytization and evangelism and that worked.

But the downside of it was that you get really messy copies where you have copies all over the place, but human error gets involved with like spelling differences and, you know, additions, deletions, mostly for completely like understandable reasons.

But the downside of it was that you get really messy copies where you have copies all over the place, but human error gets involved with like spelling differences and, you know, additions, deletions, mostly for completely like understandable reasons.

But the downside of it was that you get really messy copies where you have copies all over the place, but human error gets involved with like spelling differences and, you know, additions, deletions, mostly for completely like understandable reasons.

But we actually have manuscripts where we know the person copied it and they didn't know how to read it because they make mistakes that you wouldn't make if you We knew how to copy. There's this really great example of a guy who copies, I believe it's the genealogy of Matthew.

But we actually have manuscripts where we know the person copied it and they didn't know how to read it because they make mistakes that you wouldn't make if you We knew how to copy. There's this really great example of a guy who copies, I believe it's the genealogy of Matthew.

But we actually have manuscripts where we know the person copied it and they didn't know how to read it because they make mistakes that you wouldn't make if you We knew how to copy. There's this really great example of a guy who copies, I believe it's the genealogy of Matthew.

And he he's looking at a manuscript that has two columns and he's copying it from left to right and he's copying it like this. Whereas it's like the column you go down and then the next column. So in the genealogy of Jesus, he's got all the wrong people begetting all the wrong people. And you're like, you wouldn't do this if you know how to read because God is in the middle of the genealogy.

And he he's looking at a manuscript that has two columns and he's copying it from left to right and he's copying it like this. Whereas it's like the column you go down and then the next column. So in the genealogy of Jesus, he's got all the wrong people begetting all the wrong people. And you're like, you wouldn't do this if you know how to read because God is in the middle of the genealogy.

And he he's looking at a manuscript that has two columns and he's copying it from left to right and he's copying it like this. Whereas it's like the column you go down and then the next column. So in the genealogy of Jesus, he's got all the wrong people begetting all the wrong people. And you're like, you wouldn't do this if you know how to read because God is in the middle of the genealogy.

So like that kind of thing. That is a real problem. That is a real problem. But ironically, with the Christian manuscripts, because we have so many, it's actually because of the mistakes that we're able to trace the text back with a high degree of confidence.

So like that kind of thing. That is a real problem. That is a real problem. But ironically, with the Christian manuscripts, because we have so many, it's actually because of the mistakes that we're able to trace the text back with a high degree of confidence.

So like that kind of thing. That is a real problem. That is a real problem. But ironically, with the Christian manuscripts, because we have so many, it's actually because of the mistakes that we're able to trace the text back with a high degree of confidence.

Because if you have copies that are floating around North Africa and places like Egypt, and then you have copies in Syria, and you have copies out into Asia and into Europe and the British Isles, when mistakes pop up, they're geographically located. And because you have so many, you can compare and contrast them and figure out, okay, well, this obviously happened here at this time.