The Biblical chronology and datings are of a very vague nature, since they are based on the authority of late Mediaeval theologians. As we shall learn, the consensual point of view about the Old Testament books preceding those of the New Testament also causes many doubts, and contradicts the results obtained by modern empirico statistical dating methods. One should also consider the issue of the age of the Biblical manuscripts that have reached our time. They turn out to be of mediaeval origin. The oldest more or less complete copies of the [Greek] Bible are the manuscripts of Alexandria, Vatican, and Mount Sinai.All three manuscripts are dated [palaeographically; that is, with such an ephemeral concept as handwriting style used as a basis ] to the second half of the fourth century adThe codex language is Greek The least is known about the Vatican codex nobody knows how the artefact manifested in Vatican around 1475 The codex of Mt. Sinai was only discovered in the 19th century by Tischendorf, who has presented to the Russian tsar Alexander the First and got enobled plus a fortune of 50000 gold roubles in return. So, the three oldest codices of the Bible only surface after the 15 century ad The reputation of their antiquity was created by the authority of the same Tischendorf, who had based his research on the style of handwriting.However, the very idea of palaeographical dating apparently implies the existence of a known global chronology of other documents and thus ...