ANCIENT PAPYRI FOUND
PART OF BIBLE TWO CENTURIES BEFORE CHRIST OLDEST MANUSCRIPT BY 300 YEARS United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 8.20 p.m.) London, July 21. The John Rylands Library, Manchester, has published the text of two Biblical papyri discovered in an Egyptian rubbish-heap. The most important consists of four fragments of the Book of Deuteronomy, written in the second century B.C. Thus it is 300 years older than the oldest Biblical manuscript previously known, and the only existing preChristian evidence for the text of the Old Testament.
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Southland Times, Issue 22948, 22 July 1936, Page 5
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87ANCIENT PAPYRI FOUND Southland Times, Issue 22948, 22 July 1936, Page 5
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