By: Leah Marie-Ann Klett – The Christian Post; christianpost.com
An international team of researchers has recovered dozens of long-lost pages from one of Christianity’s earliest New Testament manuscripts, including the letters of Apostle Paul, shedding new light on how early believers read and studied Scripture.
Led by the University of Glasgow, the team used advanced imaging technology to recover 42 missing pages from Codex H, a sixth-century Greek manuscript containing the letters of Apostle Paul, according to an announcement from the university.
The manuscript, also known as GA 015, had been dismantled in the 13th century at a monastery on Mount Athos, where its parchment pages were repurposed as binding material for other books. Over centuries, its surviving fragments were scattered across libraries throughout Europe, with many pages believed to be permanently lost.
Researchers say the breakthrough came through the use of multispectral imaging, a technique that captures images under different wavelengths of light, from ultraviolet to infrared. The method revealed faint “ghost” traces of ink that had transferred between pages when the manuscript was reused, allowing scholars to reconstruct text that had been invisible for centuries.
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