The medieval Roman Empire is all around us. The more that I study, the more I realize that this is so.
Today I learned about Erasmus, a Dutch scholar, who created the New Testament, compiling over 2,000 Byzantine manuscripts into a single document. The King James Bible’s New Testament is a straight up translation of his Novum Instrumentum the Latin translation of his original Greek manuscript, also by Erasmus. The Gutenberg Bible also printed his New Testament. Martin Luther based his faith on it.
There are many ways that the Byzantines are still with us, but there are few as profound and important as the New Testament.
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