An Academic Biblical Reexamination, Part III: Cognitive Biases, Education, and the Amiatinus: How the Bible Became Corrupted, and Why the Bible Never Forbade Homosexuality

<p dir="ltr"><i>[</i><i>PedocolBibX47] </i><i>Part III</i> documents the first full digital <b>transcription of the Codex Amiatinus</b>, the oldest complete Latin Vulgate Bible, produced in the early 8th century. This manuscript represents a textual snapshot before later Catholic redactions and therefore preserves meanings closer to Jerome’s original translation from Hebrew and Greek. The project includes a meticulous <b>transliteration</b> from Old Latin orthography into normalized Latin, followed by a <b>temporal translation</b> that restores word senses according to their meaning at the time of writing rather than later ecclesiastical reinterpretation.</p><p dir="ltr">Through this process, distinctions such as <b>masculus</b> (young male, boy) versus <b>masculum</b> (the male sex, classification) are recovered. Cross-referencing with Hebrew (<i>ish</i> vs. <i>zachar</i>), Greek (<i>anthrōpos</i> vs. <i>arsen</i>), and early modern German Bibles (“Mann” vs. “Knaben”) shows consistent evidence that the original texts condemned <b>sexual exploitation of boys</b> rather than adult homosexuality. The translational evidence is supported with examples across Genesis, Leviticus, Romans, and Corinthians, where grammatical forms and diminutive suffixes (<i>-culus</i> vs. <i>-culum</i>) indicate age-specific meaning.</p><p dir="ltr">The description of missing and altered verses in Esther, Daniel, and other books highlights how traditions in both the Hebrew Tanakh and Catholic canon removed or altered material, often erasing references to divine protection of Israel. By reconstructing these texts, the project restores context lost for over a millennium. The work combines <b>philology, linguistics, and forensics</b> with the author’s Lehti-Feynman Method of Extrapolative Trial by Error, ensuring that findings are reproducible and anchored in the oldest surviving witnesses.</p>