FINDS IN ABYSSINIA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17440, 11 December 1930, Page 11

FINDS IN ABYSSINIA

REVISING THE OLD TESTAMENT ]),.. si. A. Mercer, Professor of Semitic languages and Egyptology at Trinofv College', Toronto, un his return from iVbyssiniu, where lie has spent three months searching I'm ancient Biblical manuscripts, declares , that he will soon issue a new version of the Old Testament. The, professor is at present rewriting the Book of Keclesiastes. Last, suinnier lie rlisiiov-ered a hitherto unpublished miiuusiript £CO yeai.s older than any previously known translation of the book. Tie mnuusei ipl had been carefully guarded l.y priests, and Dr. Merccl was refused access In the original, but later obtained permissione h'oin the Kinpei-ni- of Abyssinia. 1.0 photograph it Professor Mercer declares that his discovery will remove from Eicelesiastes some passages interpolated by early Jews, and will correct obvious errors in the present revised version.