Yankees ‘discover’ Codex Beratinus
March 8, 2008 by qafirarnaut
An expedition to Albania last summer yielded new excitement: His team found a treasure trove of manuscripts. The group had expected to work with 13 known manuscripts – but instead found that the National Archive in Tirana listed 47 New Testament manuscripts. At least 17 were unknown to Western scholars.
The oldest manuscript in that collection, said Dr. Wallace, is a Codex Beratinus, written in the sixth century. A codex is the ancestor of the modern book form, and it replaced the scrolls and wax tablets of earlier times.
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Hello,
the yankees did certainly not discover Codex Beratinus. It was already registered as a memory of the world by UNESCO.
The yankees rediscovered some MSS that had been relocated to the National archive in Tirana.
Tommy Wasserman