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The spread of the Christian Church was responsible for the extinction of the Egyptian scripts, outlawing their use in order to eradicate any link with Egypt’s pagan past.
Simon Singh • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
Jerome is chiefly notable as the translator who produced the Vulgate, which remains to this day the official Catholic version of the Bible. Until his day the Western Church relied, as regards the Old Testament, chiefly on translations from the Septuagint, which, in important ways differed from the Hebrew original. Christians were given to
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