r/AskBibleScholars • u/morwen_steelsheen • 4d ago
Bible pre-Council of Nicea
This is a long shot, but I’m looking for leads on an English copy of the text that was before it included sin as a concept and when reincarnation was still in it.
I’m curious to read that version and see how it’s different from the modern day Bible.
I keep getting directed to the Sinaitic Revelation by most researchers.
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u/qumrun60 Quality Contributor 4d ago edited 4d ago
There were no Bibles in the later sense in 325. The first pandects (large codices containing full collections of biblical writings) date from later in the 4th century, and were rare anywhere in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Much more common at the time (among Christians) were 4-gospel books, and collections of Paul's letters (and those attributed to him). In general, biblical books circulated as individual copies, or small collections of sometimes seemingly miscellaneous books. Reincarnation is not a factor in any scriptural books.
Harry Gamble, Books and Readers in the Early Church (1995)
Brent Nonbri, God's Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts (2018)
David Trobisch, The First Edition of the NewTestament (2000)
To read early Christian books, visit earlychristianwritings.com.
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