![]() ![]() When the entire Pentateuch is present on a scroll, it is called a “Torah”. ![]() Animals considered “unclean” by the Jews, such as pigs, were of course, never used to make scrolls. These writings were passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years on scrolls made of animal skin, usually sheep, but sometimes deer or cow. The Old Testament scriptures were written in ancient Hebrew, a language substantially different than the Hebrew of today. The earliest scripture is generally considered to be the “Pentateuch”, the first five books of the Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy… though there is some scholarly evidence to indicate that the Old Testament Book of Job may actually be the oldest book in the Bible. The language used was almost certainly an ancient form of Hebrew, the language of Old Covenant believers. Biblical scholars believe this occurred between 1,400 BC and 1,500 BC… almost 3,500 years ago. The first recorded instance of God’s Word being written down, was when the Lord Himself wrote it down in the form of ten commandments on the stone tablets delivered to Moses at the top of Mount Sinai. The story of the Bible is much older than that, however. Indeed, if we go back more than just one thousand years, there is no language recognizable as “English” that even existed anywhere. The story of how we got the English language Bible is, for the most part, the story of the Protestant Reformation which began in the late 14th Century AD with John Wycliffe. ![]()
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