Dating Bible manuscripts

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Dating Bible manuscripts is typically done by:

  • paleography (the study of handwriting styles) which compares the script to known examples
  • use of specific contractions ("nomina sacra")
  • type of manuscript papyris

Carbon-14 dating, which was discovered in 1947, provides imprecise results and requires destruction of too much of a manuscript to be used. Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS), which is an improvement on carbon-14 dating by destroying on a much smaller portion of a manuscript, has been used on fourteen of the scrolls in the Dead Sea Scrolls.[1] "In all but one instance, they confirmed the date that had been given to them by paleographers."[2]

References

  1. ↑ https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/653398
  2. ↑ https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/stewart_don/faq/words-bible/question8-how-is-the-age-of-an-ancient-manuscript-determined.cfm#:~:text=5.,to%20get%20a%20precise%20date.
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