The Kessel find is a double palimpsest because the parchment was then used a third time. A document like this, where one layer of text hides the erased remains of another, is called a palimpsest. But thanks to the scarcity of parchment a couple of hundred years later in the region, that parchment was reused, mostly erasing the original translation of the Biblical New Testament. The long-hidden chapter-an interpretation of Matthew chapter 12-was originally translated as part of what are known as the Old Syriac translations about 1,500 years ago. The new find represents one of the earliest translations of the Gospels. The second series of Great Prophecies and Teachings of the Bible continues the study of the most important biblical principles including. All he needed was ultraviolet photography equipment and plenty of research know-how.Īnnouncing the discovery in a paper published in the journal New Testament Studies, medievalist Grigory Kessel of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW or Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) found the hidden chapter underneath three layers of text-dubbed a double palimpsest-thanks to ultraviolet photography. The text is one of only four examples of the Old Syriac translation.Ī scientist found a lost portion of Biblical text about 1,500 years after it was initially written. Discovery Bible Study, or DBS, is a study method that relies on the Bible itself, rather than the leader, to do the heavy lifting of discipleship.
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