When do we get to see the translation? There’s been a lot of news, but I have yet to find what it actually says.
What this tells us can corroborate dating for early copies of the New Testament which can be dated no later than around this time.
Mind you that is, “translated copies,” not when the original was first written.
I wonder if it was actually a fragment from the Diatessaron.
It wouldn’t kill them to at least tell us what section of the New Testament is represented here— is it from the Gospels? From one of St Paul’s or St John’s epistles? What?
This sentence strikes me as something of a non sequitur -- or, at least, confusingly put -- insofar as the New Testament autographs were themselves written in Greek. This suggests that the writer of this article has a somewhat shaky grasp of her subject. Does she mean "... before the oldest extant Greek manuscripts"?
And even that wouldn't be altogether accurate, since the Rylands Library Papyrus P52, a fragment of the Gospel of John, is understood to be far older than this recently discovered Syriac witness.