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Jeffrey Gibson · 04-24-2008, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Toto

Let's just be thankful that Albanian librarians, whether atheistic-Communist or Muslim or whatever, took care of Greek manuscripts, in spite of their linguistic, national, and religious differences.

Are there similar finds waiting in the Republic of Macedonia? Although it appears that most of those monasteries date to the 11th century at the earliest.

According to Dan Wallace, the answer is yes. Here's a remark of his that was posted on the Textual Criticism List today.

Jeffrey

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"Many manuscripts are in Eastern Europe or the Middle East. We currently have leads on over 200 [other] manuscripts. My best guess is that there are as many as another 1000 Greek New Testament manuscripts yet to be discovered."

Roger Pearse · 04-24-2008, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeffrey Gibson

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toto

Let's just be thankful that Albanian librarians, whether atheistic-Communist or Muslim or whatever, took care of Greek manuscripts, in spite of their linguistic, national, and religious differences.

Are there similar finds waiting in the Republic of Macedonia? Although it appears that most of those monasteries date to the 11th century at the earliest.

According to Dan Wallace, the answer is yes.

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"Many manuscripts are in Eastern Europe or the Middle East. We currently have leads on over 200 [other] manuscripts. My best guess is that there are as many as another 1000 Greek New Testament manuscripts yet to be discovered."

This should be no surprise. Scholars generally have little idea what is in even major western European libraries. When I went to the British Library to inspect the two manuscripts of Tertullian listed in the critical editions, I was astonished to find **three** manuscripts, the new one unmentioned in any Tertullian-related publications.

Apparently no-one has any idea of what is in Spanish libraries, unsatisfactory 'catalogues' notwithstanding. There are Latin manuscripts in obscure libraries in Romania, for instance.

The quantity of basic work that needs to be done is astonishing, and exceeded only by the refusal of major collections to cooperate in doing it.

All the best,

Roger Pearse

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