The Dark Ages to the Renaissance 500 to 1500 AD

Iconoclastic Conflict Related to Church-State conflict 726 -843 AD LaTourette pages 292-297 Emperors (Leo etc.) against icons in worship Clergy, particularly Greek clergy, were for icons in worship, also women in favour of… Icons a popular way of instructing the illiterate but became objects of veneration 2nd commandment was against images… Pro-icons – sense of historical faith Against […]

Dating the Oldest New Testament Manuscripts

As you can see, from the fourth century onwards the material base for establishing the text of the Greek New Testament is very good indeed. The manuscripts Sin. (Sinaiticus), A (Alexandrinus) and B (Vaticanus) are almost complete parchment manuscripts. With the help of the earlier papyrus manuscripts, we have been able to establish that the text of these three great manuscripts is largely reliable. The papyrus manuscript P75 was the latest to be published, but it showed a virtually identical text to manuscript B. This settled the vexed question whether we have in the parchment manuscripts of the fourth and fifth centuries a safe guide to the original text of the New Testament. We have.