He remembers Prof Brown's manuscript with "weird shapes that looked like flowers." It turned out that part of the gospels had been made from an ancient Greek medical text which advised treating ...
The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. The story of the 174-page ...
Thus none of the existing manuscripts provides the original text. Besides the Septuagint, the witnesses in the Hexapla included three later Jewish Greek versions under the names of Aquila, Symmachus, ...
who wielded power over both the Russian and Greek Orthodox churches. Tischendorf promised Alexander he would turn over the valuable manuscripts to the Russian Orthodox Church after he translated them.