A newly translated manuscript has now been confirmed to have been the oldest one about Jesus Christ ... scripture and is not included in the Bible itself. Despite this, the stories from this ...

It's also only the fourth known copy of the Old Syriac translation, making it rarer than most medieval manuscripts. This discovery is reshaping the understanding of how the Bible traveled across ...

Imagine, then, how precious centuries-old manuscripts are ... which constitutes one of the earliest versions of the Greek Bible. When the Christian monks were unwilling to loan the ancient ...

The 1,100-year-old book could become the most ... will lay eyes on one of only two known ancient manuscripts comprising almost the entire Hebrew Bible — along with the Aleppo Codex, which ...

Dating to the year 700 CE, the Afghan Liturgical Quire is on view at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library's exhibit, ...

Nearly 1,500 years after it was first written, a “hidden chapter” of Biblical text has been found by researchers. The study, which was published in the journal New Testament Studies, claims ...

The Sarum Master Bible features detailed letter ... After going on display, the 13th Century manuscript will be carefully kept in the cathedral's 600-year-old library, behind a gate that the ...

There is something magical about being in the presence of a historically significant object, the oldest Hebrew book ever discovered." — David Kraemer, director of the JTS Library ...

mediaeval and early modern manuscripts at the British Library. "It is one of the greatest treasures of the British Library," where it is periodically displayed on rotation. "This spectacular, ...

Researchers at Keio University and other institutions say the writing is also most likely the oldest among manuscripts of commentaries on the Confucian Analects that have been handed down at ...