Book of Mormon vs Masoretic vs Dead Sea Scrolls?
By paranominal
Published: September 5, 2009
Tagged with: 11th Century, Amp, Bible, Bibles, Bom, Book Of Mormon, Dead Sea Scrolls, Dss, Elders, God, Isaiah 9, Latter Time, Lord Of Hosts, Lxx, Mistake, Peace, Quot, Righteousness, Truth, Zeal
http://www.fairlds.org/Book_of_Mormon/Bible_and_the_Book_of_Mormon.html
The link above helped me to understand this a little.
The Septuagint, I believe is older than even the DSS and when compared, the DSS is missing words and phrases that the Septuagint has. This would not make the DSS unauthentic.
These scriptures are passed on. They are not printed in millions like they are today. And many times people will change things without authorization and sometimes items get lost in translation.
I would not base authentication solely on the fact that one is older than the other and so the other should have exactly what the older has.
The link will explain more in-depth comparisons between the Masoretic, the DSS and The Septuagint and the Book of Mormon.
Good question. I would like to see the responses you get. I starred the question hoping my contacts may shed some light on the matter.
I applaud your research.
I’d have to do some research on this specific instance.
There are MANY instances where the Book of Mormon is consistent with either the Masoretic Texts or the Septuagint where the Bible has has some minor omission or change.
I think you’d be wise to look at the topic in general rather than just picking one that seems to suit your purpose. (….unless you’re more interested in pushing an agenda than discovering truth….).
Here’s a great link that discusses some of these:
http://www.fairlds.org/Book_of_Mormon/Bible_and_the_Book_of_Mormon.html
I’ll try to look into this and come back to it.
We don’t know exactly all the details of the translation of the Book of Mormon. In my opinion it seems reasonable that Joseph Smith used the King James translation of the Bible when giving the translation of the Book of Mormon, unless he felt inspired to make a difference.
So, is the addition in the Dead Seas scrolls something important that Joseph Smith should have included? It doesn’t look important, but I’m not exactly sure what the phrase "God existing as man" means.
Do we know that the addition in the Dead Sea Scroll is correct? It could be that some scribe or clerk erroneously added the phrase when he copied the text. Just because the scroll may be older than the Masoretic text doesn’t mean it is more correct than the version the Nephites had, or the Masoretic text either.