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Originally Posted by Jerusalem Blade  Around 641 A.D. Islam began to spread into Egypt, and before that the local text of that region (which had never had any autographs of the NT Scriptures sent to them) was not accepted by the Byzantine church, which had ample time and occasion to become familiar with them through Eusebius’ bringing them in from Origen’s Alexandrian/Caesarian library. By the time Islam took Egypt the dust had settled on the issue of the quality of their NT MSS, in the eyes of the Greek church. |
What I find interesting is that the
alexadrian text-types are dated back to the 4th century:
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Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus, both believed to date from the early 4th century CE
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Yet, Islam came around 300 years later. The text, if were to be descended from the originals(as you state):
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had ample time and occasion to become familiar with them through Eusebius’ bringing them in from Origen’s Alexandrian/Caesarian library.
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The whole "Islam stopped the texts" argument is horrible...