So to some extent you can really trust that the first five books of Genesis are actually what was written thousands of years ago (depending on the translation of course!). That's because there's very strict rules surrounding anyone copying out the Torah. They found that there was only one word that was different between them and it was a very similar word. I did a religious studies paper at university a long time ago and one of the things I remember that was amazing was that at one point they managed to find the text of the Old Testament that had been carried forward in isolation by a Jewish group who had been living somewhere like the back lands of Russia and it was compared to the religious texts of modern Jews.īear in mind that these two examples of the Torah had been copied and recopied hundreds of times when the original books wore out and had been done by different cultures and generations thousands of kilometers apart.
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