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Ancient Version of the Book of Acts is Finally Being Decoded; and There May be a "Bonus Discovery"The manuscript was originally recorded by Coptic monks in Egypt roughly 1,500 years ago.
The manuscript known as M.910 arrived at New York City's Morgan Library in the early 1960s. Iowa Public Radio reports the manuscript was originally recorded by Coptic monks in Egypt roughly 1,500 years ago. But researchers had no way of examining the fragile, damaged book, which was sealed together by water and fire damage, until now. University of Kentucky computer scientist W. Brent Seales and University of Iowa early Christianity scholar Paul Dilley are using the same process that was used to decode the Dead Sea Scrolls. Their new x-ray images of the manuscript are still being processed and examined. But it's not just the Book of Acts that's hidden in the previously un-accessed manuscript. Melville House writes, "It likely also contains another text, and it is this text that has Dilley and other scholars of early Christianity curious, as it could provide another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the New Testament." Dr. Melissa Moreton, a manuscript historian at the Iowa Center for the Book, wrote a blog post about the codex called Revealing the Secrets of an Early Coptic Manuscript.
Moreton helped the team recreate a prototype of the manuscript to help with their project.
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