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A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the ...
A newly examined inscription found in Sinai, Egypt may read “This is from Moses,” sparking debate about ancient script.
The United States must press the Syrian Transitional Government to bring the perpetrators of the Saint Elias Church attack to ...
In the hundreds of Greek and Syriac and other early (pre-Latin) manuscripts (because the Bible is translated into Vulgate Latin by St. Jerome in about A.D. 400, well after the first manuscripts in ...
In the world of ancient manuscripts, scholars often come across texts that have been altered or erased. This technique, ...
Archaeology breakthrough as 1,500-year-old lost Bible chapter discovered A long-lost section of the Bible, dating from almost 1,500 years ago, has been discovered by scientists.
After several weeks spent transcribing the manuscript, the scholars found it was a complete Syriac version of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Cambridge University Library A 15th Century Hebrew commentary on the Bible, possibly made in Greece, is another of the rare manuscripts on display ...
A recently discovered 1,600-year-old papyrus is the earliest known manuscript of the Infancy Gospel. The apocryphal stories about Jesus' childhood fascinate the world, but they aren't new.
What Syriac scribes chose to keep: A digital dive into 1,000 manuscripts A new study uses digital tools to analyze nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts from the British Library, focusing on how scribes ...