OLDEST BIBLE
Discovery of the "world's oldest Bible," said to have been written in the second century, was announced recently by the Austrian National Library.
Hans Gcrstinger, chief of the library's manuscript section, said the pile of dusty manuscripts was found in a Cairo bookshop by Hermann Junker, director of the German Archaeological Institute there. They were taken to Vienna for study and their Importance confirmed.
The entire Bible was not included in the manuscripts, bound in the form of a book, but the Gospel of Matthew, Paul'<s epistles and portions of the Old Testament were there.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 102, 2 May 1935, Page 14
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