A researcher has used ultraviolet photography to locate a lost fragment of Biblical text nearly 1,500 years after it was originally written.
Some publications report that Kessel has found a “hidden chapter,” but it’s more accurate to say that Kessel uncovered a new translation of an existing chapter. In this case, it’s an ancient translation of Matthew chapter 12.
“The tradition of Syriac Christianity knows several translations of the Old and New Testaments. Until recently, only two manuscripts were known to contain the Old Syriac translation of the gospels,” says Kessel. One of the manuscripts is kept in the British Library in London, while he discovered the other in St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai while working on his “Sinai Palimpsests Project.”
The translation Kessel located was written at least a century before the oldest surviving Greek manuscripts. Kessel’s use of ultraviolet photography to uncover erased texts is common in the process of digitally recovering palimpsests., “In the context of palimpsests, the use of ultraviolet light is the most widespread method.”
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