Archived World's oldest surviving Latin bible returns to Britain after 1300 years (telegraph.co.uk)
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Archived World's oldest surviving Latin bible returns to Britain after 1300 years (telegraph.co.uk)
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[–] yueter 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
With most things yeah.
Jist of it is, the Bible was used so extensively by most families (like 6 hours a day, every day, every week) that they wore out quite fast.
Imagine Bible A is written/edited/compiled wtvr by one group. And Bible B written/edited/compiled wtvr again by another group.
Both printed at the same time.
Bible A is put away and sits on a shelf in a dusty building. Bible B is opened, shut, dropped, spilled on, wtvr for hours each and every day.
Bible B is toast after a while. Time to copy or get a new Bible B. Few years later, gonna be time for another Bible B.
A few hundred years go by.
Oldest copy of Bible B is only few decades old.
Oldest copy of Bible A is centuries old.