Description Surprisingly, all 5 billion Bibles translated in whole or in part into nearly 3, 000 languages sprang from Black African manuscripts.
It was also firs.
This book discusses an African Greek New Testament manuscript that was initially deemed the oldest of its kind until it was "re-dated" so as to lose that distinction.
Five pharaohs are mentioned by name, while eight remain anonymous.
Showing the influence of Black African rulers in the Hebrew Old Testament in the present book, the title "Pharaoh" is mentioned approximately 271 times in the first half of the Bible.
His daring adventures there made international news.
He was accorded the privilege of being in the "inner circle" since he was the first person ever to take color photographs of the oldest most complete version of the Hebrew Old Testament in the form of the 1, 000-year-old Codex Leningrad B19a, located at the time in the Soviet Union, now Russian Federation.
As a Man of Color, he was able to see through a set of lenses different from those of his colleagues.
Carr was not only one of these, but was the only Black man to have done so.
Only a handful of scholars around the world were exposed to what was at the time the 2, 000-year-old unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls.
Trever, the late Bible scholar who was the first Westerner to discover the Dead Sea Scrolls and announce their existence to the world.
John C.
Dr.
Carr brings a unique perspective since he personally worked extensively with Prof.
In fact, the oldest document among the Dead Sea Scrolls is an African manuscript.
A number of fragments among the world famous Dead Sea Scrolls are African documents.
He is the only one who could have written it with such ferocity.
After 25 years of preparation, Firpo Carr is releasing the latest in his string of books.
The oldest Hebrew Old Testament manuscripts, the oldest Greek New Testament manuscripts, and the oldest Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament (called the Septuagint), are all African documents.
Description Surprisingly, all 5 billion Bibles translated in whole or in part into nearly 3, 000 languages sprang from Black African manuscripts
