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Researchers claim to have discovered a Bible chapter buried beneath a portion of writing that dates back more than a thousand years
Researchers claim to have discovered a prehistoric copy of a Bible chapter that had been hidden for more than 1,500 years beneath a stretch of text.
The discovery was first reported earlier this year by historian Grigory Kessel of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in a peer-reviewed paper published by Cambridge University Press in the journal New Testament Studies.
- UV photography was employed by researchers to identify the text, which was obscured by several revisions.
- A scientist claimed to have discovered a Bible chapter that had been lost for more than 1,500 years.
- The manuscript, according to researchers, is a “gateway” to understanding different stages of the Bible’s development.
Using ultraviolet photography, according to Kessel, he was able to view the older text beneath three layers of words written on a palimpsest, an old document on which people had previously written over other words but frequently left behind remnants of their original handwriting.
Because parchment was scarce in ancient times, palimpsests were employed instead. The substance would be repeatedly written with words until the hidden words underneath were covered by multiple layers.
According to a press release from Kessel, the text is an expanded, never-before-seen version of Matthew 12:12, which was first included in the Old Syriac Bible translations around 1,500 years ago. He claimed to have found the information in the Vatican Library manuscript.
According to the news release, the manuscript presents a “unique gateway” for scholars to understand the initial stages of the Bible’s textual development and exhibits certain distinctions from contemporary translations of the book.
For example, the translation notes that Matthew 12:1, which is most frequently used today, originally said, “At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and his disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat .” This is true to the original Greek translation of the passage.
But the translation from the recently found Syriac is a little different. Then it continued, “began to pick the heads of grain, rub them in their hands, and eat them.”
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For example, the translation notes that Matthew 12:1, which is most frequently used today, originally said, “At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and his disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat .” This is true to the original Greek translation of the passage.
But the translation from the recently found Syriac is a little different. Then it continued, “began to pick the heads of grain, rub them in their hands, and eat them.”
For example, the translation notes that Matthew 12:1, which is most frequently used today, originally said, “At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and his disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat .” This is true to the original Greek translation of the passage.
But the translation from the recently found Syriac is a little different. Then it continued, “began to pick the heads of grain, rub them in their hands, and eat them.”
For example, the translation notes that Matthew 12:1, which is most frequently used today, originally said, “At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and his disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat .” This is true to the original Greek translation of the passage.
But the translation from the recently found Syriac is a little different. Then it continued, “began to pick the heads of grain, rub them in their hands, and eat them.”
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