Friday 28 October 2016

Do we have old ancient torah manuscript?


http://abcnews.go.com/International/worlds-oldest-complete-torah-scroll-found-italian-professor/story?id=19280022


It is said that this so called oldest complete torah scroll is only 800 years old.


The Christians uses Septuagint that they(or we?) claim is older. I suspected that Christians uses Septuagint to fit their agenda.


However, after reading the above article, I began to suspect. Septuagint are indeed older.


So how come Jews don't have old surviving ancient scrolls like Christians?



And is that merely 800 years old scroll really the oldest?




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