Where are the books of the bible located?

Question

I think it would be cool to look at them and be able to translate them,right and truefully.

very funny,but i mean where are they hosted at.

I read a book about the book about a book that is suppose to be in the bible but isn't.I wonder what it mentions.I'll have to look that up.

Nope,but I would like to be a historian.It sounds rather boring though to be a historian.

Answer 1

The actual sources are in many different places. The Vatican has some, and others are in academic libraries and museums. They are old and must be kept in environmentally controlled rooms.

The translation process is something that requires a great deal of skill as the languages are not the sort that one can take a dictionary and discern meaning. For example, the Hebrew texts had no vowels, and the reader had to choose the correct vowel to discern the correct word. Also, these languages had no punctuation, so if a text read "truly I say unto thee this day thou shalt be with me in paradice" (paraphrase a bit), where do you put the punctuation?
If you put a comma after the word 'thee', that means that the person Jesus was speaking to would be in heaven TODAY, but if you put it after the word 'day' it would mean that the person was going to heaven, but you wouldn't know when, leaving open the possibility of the Catholic idea of purgatory.

In any event, the beliefs of the translators do have a great deal to do with the interpretation of the Bible. Vowels in the Hebrew, and punctuation in unpunctuated documents need to be applied skillfully, but there is no way to do so without assuming a certain viewpoint first. Most interpreters do so with an understanding of the culture, but how was that understanding gained without translations in the first place?

You can find some online photos of the older documents. Below is a link to a site about the Dead Sea Scrolls, with photos that you can look at. Just look at them, and their condition to get an idea of what translators have to go through.

Answer 2

The Bible is God's Word to us.
It was written by human authors, under the supernatural guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Above all you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:20-21. (New International Version)

Breakdown of the Bible
36 human authors inspired entirely by God over 1600 years.
66 separate books
39 Old Testament
Genesis- The creation of the world, sin, flood and birth of Israel
Exodus to Esther- History of the nation of Israel
Job to Proverbs- the books of poetry and wisdom
Isaiah to Malachi- Prophecy or foretelling of the future events to come.
27 New Testament
Matthew to John - Four Gospels representing the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ now with all authority in Heaven and earth.
Acts- Birth of the Church (The Bride of Christ)
Romans to Jude - Letters to the Churches
Revelations - The ultimate future plans for: The Church, Heaven, Hell, a New Heaven and a New Earth.

Here are some Bible Study Resources for anything you may want to look up:

Biblegateway.com
Ntgateway.com
Bible.org
Bible-history.com

Answer 3

The prominent manuscripts are in libraries/museums around the world.
Some are in the British Museum and one of the primary Greek NT manuscripts is in the Vatican. Most are now available in electronic formats.

Check for a book by F.F. Bruce - The books and the Parchments.

I have another book by an author named Kenyon, but it is in another city right now and I can't think of its title.

There are photographic and other copies available for them, but they are usually rather expensive.

The "BEST" New Testament manuscripts are: Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, and Vaticanus. These are pretty complete, but reading them requires a bit of expertise. I know the language and still have to stare at one for a good while to transcribe it into something I can work with.

The manuscripts I named are all UNCIAL, that is, a manuscript style with all capital letters and no spaces between words. That, plus the slightly different way each scribe writes letters makes these manuscripts a tough read.

Try pasting the names into Yahoo and selecting IMAGES to get an idea. If you want help, email me.

Answer 4

The Bible is made up of many books and some were left out, because they weren't considered the works of the cannanites. The only way to find out is to read it. People say all kinds of things about it and most of them have never read it. So I stepped outside the norm and read it for what it said. Then I thought it was actually not half bad.Then I thought a little deeper."Why is everyone hating on the Christian people so much these days?" Then I read more and it got real scarey, about the way people are acting today. Then I thought wow man this stuff is real. So now I'm convinced it, in itself(the Bible) is a time machine.

Answer 5

a. As of the mid-1980's, there were approximately 5300 Greek manuscripts, 10,000 Latin versions, and 9300 other early versions in museums worldwide.

b. The N.T. texts are removed from the original sources only by a few years. Two of the most important N.T. MSS's (MSS is short for manuscript) were written within 300 years of the original; we have nearly complete texts and numerous fragments within 100 years of the originals.

c. There are virtually no significant differences among the MSS's.

There are about 20,000 lines in the N.T. Of these, only about 40 lines (400 words) are in doubt.
In all 24,000 MSS's, there are only about 150,000 variations. Most of these are spelling errors or other minor differences. Only about 400 of the variations cause a change in meaning of the text, and of these only about 50 are significant. No text that is the subject of any such significant variation is the basis for an article of faith. As Sir Frederic Kenyon said: "No fundamental doctrine of the Christian faith rests on a disputed reading..."
One clear implication of this is that there appears to have been a nearly absolute dedication to precise duplication of the texts. It is really remarkable, for example, that ancient Greek texts were translated into Syriac in about A.D. 150. Hundreds of years later, after both the Greek and Syriac versions had been hand-copied hundreds of times, they still agree almost verbatim! The same is true for the Latin, Coptic (Egyptian), Armenian, Gothic, Georgian, Ethiopic, and Nubian versions.

In Jesus Name,

Answer 6

The original books were long destroyed. Many copies of them exist in the Nation Israeli Historical Aftifacts Museum. The Dead Sea scrolls, originally written in Hebrew. They were discovered by a Palestanian sheperd boy. The original copies are still available. Other segments, such as Daniel, were written in Greek and are located in their respective countries.

Answer 7

Look for a book called" From text to translation"

Answer 8

They are at the bottom of the ocean; so you may want to start swimming now; oh and don't worry you will get plenty of time to translate them... yer gonna have lots of time.

OR

you could actually be thankful your alive, for the air in your lungs, your friends and family and all the other wonderful crap that comes with existing.

or as Tool would say; Learn to swim.

Answer 9

I know that there's missing books of the bible that never past the social test to be included in the "Holy Bible". Many of them are listed on the net.

My question is; why couldn't they have been included?

Answer 10

In other words your saying God is big enough to make a universe out of nothing, but not big enough to have the book translated correctly.

That's interesting!