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Logistical Error?

posted 16 years ago by MC1-Bjornson
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I believe there is a logistical error at exactly 40 minutes and 14 seconds into 'The Case for Christ' video. It's in a sequence talking about the prophesies of Christ coming into the world.

Naturally, the prophesies would be written hundreds of years before Christ came into the world. However, in 'The Case for Christ' the prophesy chronicalled in the 22nd Chapter of Psalms is credited as being written in the year 1010 A.D.

EXHIBIT: L
MANUSCRIPT: Leningrad Codex
ORIGN: Egypt
LANGUAGE: Hebrew
DATE: Approx. 1010 A.D.
PASSAGE: Psalm 22:16

Wasn't 'Psalms' written between 586 B.C. -to- 1440 B.C.? Wasn't the Twenty-Second Psalm written by David in the first person? - Therefore, I believe 'The Case for Christ' has a typo! I suspect in should read 1010 B.C.

Perhaps a future edit of 'The Case for Christ' could include this proposed correction . . .

All My Best, ~ MC2
"The reservist formerly known as JO2"

[–] 16 years ago

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[–] phelpsg1 15 years ago

The explanation is that the date given (1010 AD) is the date of the Leningrad Codex MANUSCRIPT, not the date when the original text was written (the Psalm was, of course, copied and recopied many times). This is true of the other manuscripts that they depict, also. (Codex Sinaiticus, etc.) The date of the manuscript isn't really very relevant to the argument, and it's not clear why they would bother to put it in, except perhaps to add to the air of "authenticity" which they're striving for.