More information: Grigory Kessel, A New (Double Palimpsest) Witness to the Old Syriac Gospels (Vat. iber. 4, ff. 1 & 5), New Testament Studies (2023). DOI: 10.1017/S0028688522000182 ...

Such manuscripts were reproduced all throughout the empire. The oldest complete version of the New Testament we have, the Codex Sinaiticus, dates from 400 AD, according to Markschies.

Dickson said there are earlier Christian hymns — including several in the text of the New Testament — but none of them has the musical notation found in the P.Oxy. 1786. He said scholars can ...

A British-based academic has uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest Bible hiding underneath the binding of an 18th-century book. Nikolas Sarris spotted a previously unseen section of the Codex ...

News Chris Tomlin's new song resurrects the world's oldest known hymn (RNS) — A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience.