The fact is, at the root of the towing tree that is in fact a sprouting timeline that has budded and bloomed into five billion Bibles—propagating further into 2,123 leaf-like lan-guages—is the humble but enduring Nile River African pa-pyrus plant.
Chocolate everywhere.
Other Noteworthy Papyrus Manuscripts
With the total corpus of Dead Sea Scrolls in the posses-sion of different entities (including private collectors), it is difficult to ascertain exactly how many are papyrus.
One thing is for certain, papyrus from Africa’s Nile Riv-er formed the infrastructure of the Old Testament as repre-sented by the Dead Sea Scrolls. Might it have done so for the Greek version of the Old Testament as well?
African Septuagint Manuscripts
Just as the earliest manuscripts we have of the Old Testament are made of Black African Nile River papyrus, the same is true of the earliest manuscripts we have of the Greek Septuagint. …show more content…
About 70 men (tradition-ally 72 to be more exact) translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek almost 300 before the time of Christ.
The translation took place in Alexandria, Egypt, Africa, and the oldest manuscript we have of the Septuagint is, not surprisingly, written on Nile River papyrus.
We can be confident of this if for no other reason save that, as noted above, Alexandria is literally at the Nile Riv-er’s back door, being as it is, part of the delta as the Nile branches off into the Mediterranean Sea.
The Bible up to that point (consisting of the Hebrew Scripture only) had come full circle in that it was the highly educated African-born Moses (of Hebrew descent) that initi-ated Bible writing by penning the Torah, or first five books of the Hebrew Bible. Now, back in Africa (Alexandria, Egypt to be exact), the entire Hebrew Bible was now being translat-ed from Hebrew into