Where is the original bible located?

Answer 1

None of the original writings of the Hebrew Scriptures are extant today, but there are possibly 6,000 handwritten copies containing all or part of the Hebrew Scriptures. The Nash Papyrus, which contains small portions of Deuteronomy, and many of the Dead Sea Scrolls were copied before our Common Era. Besides copies of the Scriptures in Hebrew, many versions of the pre-Christian Scriptures have been made, either the whole or in part, in many languages. The first actual translation was the Greek Septuagint, which commenced about 280 B.C.E. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate also contained an early translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. The New World Translation of the Hebrew Scriptures was based on the seventh, eighth, and ninth editions of Rudolf Kittel’s Biblia Hebraica, which is the printed edition of Codex Leningrad B 19A, the earliest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Scriptures.
The Dead Sea Scrolls were written or copied between the 1st cent. and the first half of the 1st cent.The Dead Sea Scrolls were evidently hidden for safekeeping in caves near the Wadi Qumran, NW of the Dead Sea, where they remained undisturbed for many centuries until their discovery began in 1947.The preservation of the Dead Sea Scrolls was due in large measure to the clay jars in which they were found.Among the manuscripts found at the Dead Sea, 15 contain fragments of the book of Exodus. One fragment (4QExf) has been dated as from about 250 B.C.E. Two of the fragments, believed to date from the second or third century B.C.E., were written in ancient Hebrew characters that were in use before the Babylonian exile.Among the Dead Sea Scrolls is a manuscript of Habakkuk (chaps 1, 2) in a pre-Masoretic Hebrew text with an accompanying commentary.

Answer 2

Nobody knows, and it's my own personal belief that we never will, because of the tendancy people have to make idols of physical things they can hold in their hands.

We don't need the original copies of the Bible, however, to validate what it says. We have thousands of copies of part or all of the Bible made very early (earlier and more widespread by far than the vast majority of other ancient documents we otherwise accept as authentic), and there are only tiny textual differences between them. The study of textual criticism would lead you much farther in this kind of study.

Now, somebody quoted Bart Ehrman ("Misquoting Jesus") about there being many different copies. Besides speaking to the extent of evidence we have (as opposed to one or two copies of many other ancient documents, we have 1000s of the Bible), what they didn't tell you is that the differences are so tiny - normally only a single letter copying difference - and in no case do they change any Christian doctrine.

Answer 3

The Vatican.

The oldest known Bible was compiled in the early 4th century. A few ancient manuscripts are thought to be from the first 50 original copies. One is (I think) in a British museum, and another is in the Vatican.

Answer 4

The original Tanakh (Old Testament) is located at a pawn shop in Jerusalem named "Aladdin's Lamp".

The earliest version of the 66 book Bible is located in the basement of the Alamo.

Answer 5

They've either been destroyed to prevent them from becoming common knowledge by those sects contradicting them, or destroyed by natural disaster/war/ignorant illiterates using them for fire-fuel (that's where an example of Mayan literature ended up last century), or they are just too old and they have crumbled into dust/become illegible. The Torah is old, but it is itself based on even older documents.

Answer 6

In the minds of men. Strange misguided, but men just the same. Father forgive them for they not responsible for what they had written. A very popular Novel though, and some great ways to obtain a happy life, such at it is! What there is of it.

Answer 7

Honey, you need to wiki "bible" and find out how they compiled that sucker. As the author of "Misquoting Jesus" stated "there are more unique copies of the bible than there are WORDS in the New Testement."

Answer 8

scattered all over the world... to the winds

some are not recognized as part of the accepted texts and rendered simply as Letters, as the rest is

but the oldest copy is in Africa, which heavily influenced Judaism and Christianity - in Ethiopia and Egypt's oldest Orthodox monasteries

Answer 9

there is no "original bible"
it is composed of many different "books"
the Israelites put them together in one book to make it easier for them to take it with them on their travels

Answer 10

It has been in a hermetically sealed envelope in mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnalls' porch since noon today.