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Part of the Evangelistary Manuscript 220 that is to be returned to a Greek monastery Thursday. Shown is a segment from the Gospel of John. (Courtesy of the Museum of the Bible.
A popular Facebook post claimed that an Aramaic-language scroll discovered by archaeologists in 1892 led to a more accurate and definitive translation of the Lord's Prayer.
The monastery had used the manuscript in its liturgical services for hundreds of years before it was stolen by Bulgarian forces in 1917, along with an estimated 400 other manuscripts, according to ...
One of the best-known prayers in the English language might need an update for the sake of theological clarity, Pope Francis recently suggested in an interview. The words in the Lord's Prayer that ...
A Manhattan auction house found and returned the 16th- and 17th-century texts, which are thought to have been looted from a Greek monastery during the turmoil of World War I.
The Museum of the Bible’s website traces the manuscript’s history and the chain of ownership, from its creation in the late 10th- or early 11th century, through the looting of the monastery in ...
Archivists have uncovered a long-lost historical relic hidden underneath a Christian manuscript: the earliest known map of the stars, according to the Museum of the Bible. CNN values your feedback 1.
Called the Codex Climaci Rescriptus, the manuscript contains Christian texts. But it is also a palimpsest, or a document that’s been scrubbed of older writing so that it can be reused.