where are the original writings from the bible kept i have been trying to find them for 3 months?

Answer 1

If by the original writings from the bible you mean the originals of the gospels and of the texts of the Old Testament: they have never been found.

The earliest Hebrew manuscript is the Nash papyrus. There are four fragments, which, when pieced together, give twenty-four lines of a text of the Ten Commandments and the shema (Exodus 20:2-17; Deuteronomy 5:6-19; 6:4-5). The writing is without vowels and seems to be not later than the second century. This is the oldest extant Bible manuscript.

For the New Testament: the oldest manuscript is the Codex Vaticanus. It contains a version of the whole Bible. The Old Testament lacks Gen., i, 1-xivi, 28; I and II Mach.; portions of II Kings, ii; and Psalms, cv- cxxxvii. The New Testament wants Heb., ix, 14; I and II Tim.; Titus.; Apoc. Its origin is Lower Egyptian. It dates to the 4th century.

Answer 2

There aren't any original writings left. Over the centuries, these have been lost or decayed. However, we do have many manuscripts available.

When the translators of the King James Bible wrote the Old Testament, the oldest available manuscript for them to use was known as the Masoretic Text. This had been written in the 9th century A.D. It was this text that the translators based their work on the Old Testament. In 1947, a shepherd boy discovered some pottery in caves in the area called Qumran, near the Dead Sea. In these jars, he discovered scrolls, which Bible scholars have researched ever since. Every book of the Old Testament (except Esther) was discovered. Most of these scrolls are dated to 150 B.C. After comparing these Dead Sea Scrolls to the Masoretic Text, the scholars discovered an amazing degree of unanimity between the two, although they were written a thousand years apart. Further, the Septuagint (the Greek language translation of the Hebrew Bible) was also compared. With all of these references, we can be certain of the purity of the texts.

Next, there is no larger ancient body of manuscript evidence in the history of mankind, than the papyri and parchment manuscripts of the New Testament. With over five thousand actual Greek manuscripts, and numerous other manuscripts in four other languages, there are about twenty-four thousand available manuscript texts for the New Testament.

Even if we didn't have these documents, we could almost have a complete New Testament from extra-biblical sources, such as ancient lectionaries, church fathers' records/sermons/writings, etc.

No other body of ancient work comes close. No one really disputes Julius Caesar's The Gallic Wars (10 manuscripts remain, with the earliest one dating to 1,000 years after the original autograph). No one really disputes Pliny the Younger's Natural History (7 manuscripts; 750 years elapsed). Or Thucydides' History (8 manuscripts; 1,300 years elapsed). No one disputes Herodotus' History (8 manuscripts; 1,350 years elapsed). No one really disputes Plato (7 manuscripts; 1,300 years elapsed). No one really disputes Tacitus' Annals (20 manuscripts; 1,000 years elapsed.) Homer's Iliad, the most renowned book of ancient Greece, is the second best-preserved literary work of all antiquity, with 643 copies of manuscript support discovered to date. In those copies, there are 764 disputed lines of text, as compared to 40 lines in all the New Testament manuscripts.

So, even though we don't have the originals, we have so many copies that we can duplicate what the originals contained, almost to unanimity.

Answer 3

The original writings are long gone. They were written thousands of years ago, you know. The Dead Sea Scrolls contain many of the oldest copies of Biblical writings. I don't think they are available online. I know Westminster John Knox Press just published them in their original languages with an english translation. It's available from Amazon.

Answer 4

Most will be found in museums around the world and some are kept in vaults so they will be preserved in a controlled climate.

Answer 5

If you write to watersourceministries.org and make the question you have in Steve Bauers attention, then he most likely can answer your question. Or you can call him at 720-289-3918

Answer 6

I believe the Vatican

Answer 7

look at www.scripture4all.org