[SunkenCiv]

The fragment of the Syriac translation of the New Testament under UV light

Credit: Vatican Library

[Captain Peter Blood]

If we could go back in time and actually see what happened with Jesus I wonder what the story would be. My guess not what we think and what has been embellished over the centuries and turned into Myth.

[griffin]

This is cool!!
SO...what does it say? What Book is it from?

Epstein didn’t kill himself?

[algore]

is there an archive.org link for the full book?

I have a really old copy of this maybe, or not?

https://archive.org/details/thebookofjasher1840/page/n9/mode/2up

[moovova]

Bkmk

[umbagi]

Folks should remember, too, that the relative age of two documents, without more, is not that good a measure of accuracy. Many other factors are considered, including their generations (how many times has it been copied) and comparisons with other copies of the same material. I’m no scholar, but I know there are relatively late manuscripts considered better sources than earlier Hebrew texts of some Old Testament material — in some cases, because they were translated from earlier Hebrew texts no longer available.

[linMcHlp]

https://www.thetextofthegospels.com/2016/02/early-syriac-versions-of-gospels.html

EXCERPT:

Even the two copies that we possess have barely survived: the Sinaitic Syriac is a palimpsest; it has survived, not because anyone valued it as a copy of the Gospels, but because a copyist in the year 778 erased its Gospels-text and recycled the pages as material on which to write part of a later composition (a collection of stories about female saints and martyrs). Its faded Gospels-text was recovered, following its discovery at St. Catherine’s monastery in the 1890’s, by the gentle application of ammonium hydrosulfide to the parchment.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Pushing history and our understanding of it further back in time. Love it!

[central_va]

Does it contain the last 5 commandments?

[Steven W.]

Amazing find - Maranatha! :)