Sch?yen Codex, the oldest manuscript in private hands, is at least 1,600 years old. Recently, it went up for auction at ...

“All the major finds of Christian manuscripts that we had in the 20th century and at the end of the 19th century are all ...

The Shem Tov Bible, an ornate Hebrew manuscript from 1312, sold for $6.9 million at Sotheby’s and will be publicly displayed.

It would be the only first-century New Testament document ever discovered, and the earliest surviving Christian text. A study of the ancient manuscript would likely be published in 2013 ...

When the Christian monks were unwilling to loan the ... Tischendorf promised Alexander he would turn over the valuable manuscripts to the Russian Orthodox Church after he translated them.

Parker engages the study of the manuscripts and their texts in all their complexity ... thoughtful reader who has ever wondered about the development and transmission of Christian thought and ...

A Christian monk handwrites prayers in Greek over the Archimedes text, turning the old mathematical text into a new prayer book. The book is now a palimpsest, a manuscript with a layer of text ...

Since Islam relies on an unattainable standard of perfection, it can never in the final analysis provide certain assurance of ...

The Toledo Museum of Art has opened a show that demonstrates what a modern exhibition dedicated to Africa should look like.

The Crosby-Schoyen Codex is part of the Bodmer Papyri - a collection of texts discovered in the 1950s Christianity's oldest religious book, according to auction house Christie's, has been sold for ...

Merlin was said to have been a loyal advisor to King Arthur amid the Dark Ages before being imprisoned, killed and buried along the river Tweed, according to Vita Merlini Sylvestris (the Life of ...

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