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The fragment of the translation of the New Testament is visible under UV light. Credit: © Vatican LibraryIt is an important piece of the jigsaw puzzle in New Testament history and one of the oldest textual witnesses of the Gospels: a small manuscript fragment of the Syriac translation, written in the 3rd century and copied in the 6th century. A researcher from the Austrian Academy of Sciences discovered the fragment with the help of ultraviolet photography.About 1,300 years ago a scribe in Palestine took a book of the…

The fragment of the Syriac translation of the New Testament under UV light Credit: Vatican Library 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 erased and reused. A medievalist from…