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{{quote |'''Book I. AGAINST APION.''' <br> [A]nd how firmly we have given credit to these books of our own nation, is evident by what we do; for during so many ages as have already passed, no one hath been so bold as either to add anything to them, to take anything from them, or to make any change in them; | {{quote |'''Book I. AGAINST APION.''' <br> [A]nd how firmly we have given credit to these books of our own nation, is evident by what we do; for during so many ages as have already passed, no one hath been so bold as either to add anything to them, to take anything from them, or to make any change in them; | ||
but it is become natural to all Jews, immediately and from their very birth, to esteem those books to contain divine doctrines, and to persist in them, and, if occasion be, willingly to die for them. For it is no new thing for our captives, many of them in number, and frequently in time, to be seen to endure racks and deaths of all kinds upon the theatres, that they may not be obliged to say one word, against our laws and the records that contain them:|Flavius Josephus, ''Complete works of Josephus: Antiquities of the Jews, the wars of the Jews against Apion etc.'', 1924, p. 419}} | but it is become natural to all Jews, immediately and from their very birth, to esteem those books to contain divine doctrines, and to persist in them, and, if occasion be, willingly to die for them. For it is no new thing for our captives, many of them in number, and frequently in time, to be seen to endure racks and deaths of all kinds upon the theatres, that they may not be obliged to say one word, against our laws and the records that contain them:|Flavius Josephus, ''Complete works of Josephus: Antiquities of the Jews, the wars of the Jews against Apion etc.'', 1924, p. 419}} | ||
Although the Bible has been handed down as a manuscript for a long time, it is clear from the Dead Sea Scrolls that its content has not been changed. The scrolls written in 100 B.C. were discovered in [https://www.britannica.com/place/Qumran Qumran] Cave near the Dead Sea in 1947. They are called the Dead Sea Scrolls or Qumran Caves Scrolls. The oldest manuscript at that time was the Masoretic manuscript, dated about 900 AD. When scholars compared the two manuscripts, they were amazingly identical even though there was a time difference of about 1,000 years between the two manuscripts.<ref> | Although the Bible has been handed down as a manuscript for a long time, it is clear from the Dead Sea Scrolls that its content has not been changed. The scrolls written in 100 B.C. were discovered in [https://www.britannica.com/place/Qumran Qumran] Cave near the Dead Sea in 1947. They are called the Dead Sea Scrolls or Qumran Caves Scrolls. The oldest manuscript at that time was the Masoretic manuscript, dated about 900 AD. When scholars compared the two manuscripts, they were amazingly identical even though there was a time difference of about 1,000 years between the two manuscripts.<ref>Halley’s Bible Handbook, pg. 878–882, ''Zondervan'', 2000</ref> | ||
*'''New Testament''' | *'''New Testament''' | ||