Whoops.
Posted on 04/26/2018 7:20:14 PM PDT by marshmallow
The only recorded palimpsest in which a Christian text has been effaced to make way for the Islamic holy text is to go on sale at Christie’s
An “extraordinary” discovery by an eagle-eyed scholar has identified the shadowy outlines of passages from the Bible behind an eighth-century manuscript of the Qur’an – the only recorded palimpsest in which a Christian text has been effaced to make way for the Islamic holy text.
French scholar Dr Eléonore Cellard was looking for images of a palimpsest page sold a decade earlier by Christie’s when she came across the auction house’s latest catalogue, which included fragments from a manuscript of the Qur’an which Christie’s had dated to the eighth century AD, or the second century of Islam. Scrutinising the image, she noticed that, appearing faintly behind the Arabic script, were Coptic letters. She contacted Christie’s, and they managed to identify the Coptic text as coming from the Old Testament’s Book of Deuteronomy – part of the Torah and the Christian Old Testament.
“This is a very important discovery for the history of the Qur’an and early Islam. We have here a witness of cultural interactions between different religious communities,” said Cellard, who is attached to the College de France.
“It’s quite extraordinary,” said Christie’s specialist Romain Pingannaud. “Once you know it’s there, you can only see it, it becomes so obvious. We missed it at the beginning. It’s fascinating, particularly because it’s the only example where you have an Arabic text on top of a non-Arabic text. And what’s even more fascinating is it is on top of passages from the Old Testament … It shows the contact between communities in the first centuries of Islam; it’s very relevant.”
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Masters of plagiary and destruction.
The history supposedly was the mooslum met the Christian and the mooslum said “hey dude, lemme write some of those interesting Christian stuff at the back”
Christian ‘Sure thing bro. What do you do to worship?”
Mooslum “ we pray five times in a day, rape little girls and rape farm animals”
Christian : “Sh8t bro, that’s sick. Dont write anything at the back or I’ll kick your ass’
Islam is a contact sport.
Islam has tried to destroy the Word of God since its beginning. Millions of Christians have died in the process. God promises that “the gates of Hell will not prevail against the Church,” though the persecution will be so severe that only a remnant will be left when He returns to end His story and take His children home to heaven. Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus!
interaction = subjugation
Likely looted, incompletely scraped off, reused. That’s some cultural interaction.
Islam is Satanic. Lies from Satan. Outside of that, it’s okay I guess.
Recycling. The environmentalists and islam were joined at the hip even way back.
I wonder if Merkel’s government will bid on it. This manuscript is a great metaphor for her policies.
Thanks marshmallow.
Whoops.
Burn it..........................
LOL, exceptional gallows humor.
This.
I haven’t seen an example of this with the Quran being superimposed over the Bible before, but I have seen examples of Christian scholars reusing paper from pagan manuscripts to write down Bible passages—not as plagiarism, but simply recycling the same paper. It seems to have been a common practice when paper was scarce.
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