To legitimize its custody of the manuscript, found in an Afghan cave, the Museum of the Bible invoked the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and forged an interfaith coalition of Jews, Christians a ...

In the world of ancient manuscripts, scholars often come across texts that have been altered or erased. This technique, ...

The discovery is part of the Old Syriac version of the Bible - known as the Peshitta, and preserved today in just four manuscripts, both of which are plagued by gaps. Researchers believe this ...

Christianity's oldest religious book ... of the first Christian monasteries and contains the complete texts of two Bible books. The text is of "monumental importance as a witness to the earliest ...

The handwritten manuscript of prayers and ... extraordinary efforts of the Museum of the Bible, the age and even the origins of the world’s oldest Jewish book would have been forever lost ...

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 ...