The lecture "The archaeological and manuscript evidence of the Bible” was presented by the researcher of ancient manuscripts Scott Carroll in the frameworks of the exhibition project "Belarus and the Bible" on October 2.
Scott Carroll is a doctor (PhD), a specialist in biblical archeology, the head of the Manuscripts Research Group (USA), the founder of the Museum of the Bible in Washington, curator of the exhibition project "Belarus and the Bible". Over the decades he has been studying and describing the most valuable and ancient manuscripts in the world.
Scott Carroll shared the world's oldest testimonies of the Bible. Hundreds of thousands of written sources containing valuable information about the biblical world and the text of the Bible have been preserved. More than 500 thousand cuneiform tablets reached us from the ancient Middle East. Also, more than 500 thousand papyrus, mostly from Egypt, have survived.
The lecturer spoke about one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of all time - the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, consisting of thousands of texts, mostly in Hebrew. More than a thousand documents were identified, and more than 300 of them are texts of the Old Testament.
The earliest fragments of the New Testament date back to only a few decades after they were written. The New Testaments and Apostolic Epistles have been preserved only since the 3rd century BC and the full Bibles are saved from the 4 – 5 centuries AD.
You can see a lot of the manuscripts mentioned by the speaker at the exhibition “Belarus and the Bible”.
The lecture was attended by Belarusian scientists, as well as students of the Faculty of History and the Theology Institute of the Belarusian State University.
