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The Scrolls: Jesus In Context


However old and widespread the notion of “the Bible” as a series of books may be, though, it is a misleading concept.  The books of the Bible are not books in the modern sense of the word and did not exist as books in the ancient world. To see them as such distorts the historical reality. Read the complete blog at -- https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-scrolls-jesus-in-context.html

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