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Roman Scribe Tomb Relief

Roman Scribe Tomb Relief


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No scribes, no scripture. Modern Bible students owe much to ancient scribes. From the day that the original human writer wrote a given portion of Scripture until Gutenberg invented the printing press, every copy of any Bible portion was hand-copied from an older copy. Much of what we know of ancient cultures is due to extant documents and inscriptions, in various ancient scripts, that scribes produced or oversaw in production. This photograph shows a Roman scribe’s portrait from a tombstone in Flavia Solva, a Roman city in modern Austria.

‎1 Chr 24:6, Ezra 7:6, Neh 8:13, Neh 13:13, Esther 3:12, Esther 8:9, Ps 45:1, Matt 2:4, Matt 8:19, Matt 13:52

‎Image by Hermann A.M. Mucke, from Wikimedia Commons. License: Public Domain


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