Scientists using ultraviolet photography say they have found an old version of a chapter of the Bible that was hidden underneath a different section of text for more than 1,500 years.
According to Kessel, he used ultraviolet photography to see the earlier text under three layers of words written on a palimpsest, a type ofThe fragment of the Syriac translation of the New Testament under UV light. due to the scarcity of parchment. Words would be written on the material repeatedly until several layers covered the hidden words underneath.
The text described in Kessel's discovery is a long unseen version of Chapter 12 in the Book of Matthew that was originally a part of the Old Syriac translations of the Bible some 1,500 years ago, Kessel said inThe manuscript offers a"unique gateway" for researchers to understand the earliest phases of the Bible's textual evolution, according to the news release, and shows some differences from modern translations of the text.
For instance, according to the release, the original Greek version of Matthew 12:1 – which is the one most commonly used today – says,"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". The newly discovered Syriac translation, however, is slightly different. It says,"began to pick the heads of grain, rub them in their hands, and eat them".
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