Ad Fontes: The Old Testament Text
How We Got Our Hebrew Bible
How did the Old Testament reach us? Between Moses and the prophets and the Bible on your shelf lie millennia of copying, counting, and careful transmission — and a story most Christians have never been told.
Ad Fontes: The Old Testament Text — “to the sources” — walks ordinary Lutherans through how we got our Hebrew Bible: the work of the scribes and the Masoretes, what the Dead Sea Scrolls did and did not change, how the ancient versions fit in, and why none of it threatens the confidence Christians have always placed in the Scriptures. The aim is not to make you a textual critic. It is to let you open the Old Testament without a nagging voice asking whether the words are really there.
A companion to Ad Fontes, written for adult Sunday school classes and individual readers alike.
Who it's for
Readers who want to open the Old Testament confident the words are really there — the Hebrew-text companion to Ad Fontes.
What you'll find inside
- How we got our Hebrew Bible: the work of the scribes and the Masoretes
- What the Dead Sea Scrolls did and did not change
- How the ancient versions fit in
- Why none of it threatens the confidence Christians have always placed in Scripture
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