Scientists have found a long-lost “hidden chapter” of Biblical text

[Jazzy]

A new chapter of the Bible has been found, hidden inside a 1,750-year-old translation from the Gospel of Matthew. The chapter was found by medievalist Grigory Kessel, who used ultraviolet photography on manuscripts in the Vatican Library.

The hidden text was found as part of the Sinai Palimpsests Project, where researchers aim to recover texts that were erased and written over by scribes in the 4th-12th centuries CE. Palimpsest manuscripts – where earlier text has been washed or scraped off, then reused – were fairly common due to the scarcity of writing materials. However, centuries later text can be recovered by illuminating the manuscripts with fluorescence or different wavelengths of light.

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Thoughts about the hidden chapter?

 

[Lamb]

The doctrine won't change...and if it doesn't agree that Jesus is Savior who takes away the sin of the world, then it's not canon and should be ignored.

 

[SetFree]

The 2nd century Gnostics had a bunch of pseudo writings they created to which some of them have tried to claim was original Bible Scripture that was at some point in time removed. It's called Pseudepigrapha.