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The Various Translations of Biblical Texts. The Bible is an infinite source for research: history and law, science and prayer. According to the Catholic cannon, the Bible is composed of 73 books over …More
The Various Translations of Biblical Texts.

The Bible is an infinite source for research: history and law, science and prayer. According to the Catholic cannon, the Bible is composed of 73 books over a period of 15 centuries.

"The Bible, this collection of books, has two authors: the divine author that is God and the human authors that are the hagiographers, the writers. God, as divine author, inspired and assisted the intelligence, will and operative faculties of these men, in other words, the qualities required in a writer. They then composed the texts using their literary qualities."

The books of Chronicles that embraces all of Israel's history was begun after the return from the Babylonian exile in the fourth century B.C. The scriptures evolved from ancient testimonies of the actual texts that were passed on by scribes who had great fidelity and very diligent treatment of the transmission of the text.

"The meaning of the text is never altered; variants have to do with single words, verbal forms or sometimes a substitution in a given text, but never the substance of the text itself."

There are no longer original texts as there were when they emerged from the hands of the Evangelists or Saint Paul; however copies that are very close to the original still exist today; they are fragments that were transmitted in the first three centuries of the Church and manuscripts that can be admired in the Vatican Library at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem, and at the Biblical Societies or many other museums that preserve so many important copies.

The mini-series was taken from a documentary on the Bible, lasting 60 minutes, made by the Franciscan Multimedia Center, Canção Nova Holy Land, and H2onews, and will be available from December 2008.