a scribe is born
Today I was put into history quite by accident. I received an email from a friend who had told me that Zondervan Publishing Co. was going to be on the campus of Mississippi College today. They are doing a special program called Bible Across America , and making pit stops all over the nation. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the New International Version, they are compiling an edition that is completely handwritten. I wrote 1 Kings 21:18 , and I felt this strange sense of something bigger. There was a time, hundreds of years ago, when all copies of God's Word were handwritten. There was no other way of reproducing them. Scribes were honored for the opportunity to be a part of it. In 586 B.C., Jerusalem was captured by the Babylonians. The Temple was looted and then destroyed by fire. The Jews were exiled. About 70 years later, the Jewish captives returned to Jerusalem from Babylon. According to the Bible, Ezra recovered a copy of the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,