he found what is the oldest surviving Biblical texts to date. They were on two tiny Silver Scrolls, no larger than a matchstick. It is believed they were worn around the owners neck as amulets.
Though the various instances of temple torah were in origin oral performances, they had a material counterpart in written copies of a proto-Decalogue. These were monumental texts on display in several Israelite temples. In some respects they compare to the Balaam text from De...
While we’ve previously written about theorigins of greeting cards at Christmas(and who first sent them), today we’re taking a look at the oldest shop in which they’re still sold in London – often said to be the Medici Gallery in South Kensington. The Medici Gallery in South Kensington...
which is exercised, for example, in the dogmatic decrees of universal councils, has declared that no one can be saved without receiving the Sacrament of Baptism. It has declared John 3:5 is to be understood “as it is written”; that...
The scanned text was then slowly, painstakingly deciphered byMarkus Scholz, an archaeologist at Goethe University, with the help of theologians and other experts. The inscription is in Latin, which is unusual for the era, as similar amulet scrolls were usu...
The text is similar to known Biblical verses referenced in Judeo-Christian religions, but it does not include the third commandment against taking the name of God in vain. It also details the need to worship on Mount Gerizim (near the present-day Palestinian city Nablus and also known as the...
and say it may be a publicity stunt. They said, “The university should have examined the ink not the hide on which it was written.” Also, the order of the text was not the same as it was in that era.3If some Muslims are rejecting the claims that the manuscript is ancient, surely...
Originally titled “Three Kings of Orient,” this carol was written by journalist-turned-clergyman John Henry Hopkins in 1857 for a Christmas pageant and published six years later. The carol chronicles the Christian gospel of Matthew in which three biblical magi, commonly known as the three wise...
3 In 1Q5, 4 the text of Deut. 32 was written regularly with four hemistichs to a line, separated by spaces, which marked both main and lesser verse divisions (and so correspond to zaqef Deut. xxxii, 21, 22). There are no other examples, as far as I know, of Biblical texts ...
The manuscript belongs to the Cathedral Treasure Museum of Vercelli (Italy) and is reputed to be the oldest existent copy of the Gospels written in Latin, being therefore of particular relevance to biblical scholars. Red and black inks were characterised: minium and cinnabar were identified in ...