Manuscript Studies – Page 3

Who Was Clement of Rome? 1 Clement (3 of 9)

A letter from Rome to Corinth around AD 95, and the earliest outside notice of Peter and Paul. What 1 Clement says, and what it deliberately does not say.

Who Was Papias and What Did He Write? (2 of 9)

Everything the church says about how Mark and Matthew were written traces to one man whose books are lost. What Papias claimed and why Eusebius disliked him.

How Do We Know What Happened to the Apostles? (1 of 9)

Almost everything we know about the church after Acts comes from a handful of men, and most of their books are lost. Who the witnesses are and how far they go.

The Names I Didn’t Know

I started with a simple question: how did the Bible on my desk get here? The material wasn't too hard. It was full of people I had never heard of, mentioned as if I already knew them. Chasing those names down turned out to be the whole method.

Jerome: The Man Who Went Back to the Hebrew

He learned Hebrew in a desert in his thirties, when almost nobody in the Latin West bothered with it, and then spent thirty-four years translating the Old Testament from the original. The Bible on your desk still carries the shape of that decision, and so does the most famous mistranslation ever pinned on anyone.

Which Book of Enoch? 1, 2, 3 Enoch, Jubilees, and Why None of Them Made the Cut

Someone hands you "the Book of Enoch" like it's a lost chapter of Scripture. There is no single Book of Enoch. There are at least four Enoch-branded works, written centuries apart, in three languages, and Josephus already told the Romans why none of them counted.