Scholars have discovered a 1,750-year-old portion of the Gospel of Matthew in a “layered” manuscript where the original Old Syriac-language writing had been erased and written over, something also ...
About 1,300 years ago a scribe in Palestine took a book of the Gospels inscribed with a Syriac text and erased it. Parchment was scarce in the desert in the Middle Ages, so manuscripts were often ...
THE laughable stories collected in the thirteenth century by Bar-Hebræus, the Syriac text of which, together with an English translation, has just been published by Dr. Wallis Budge, is a remarkable ...