{"id":67,"date":"2018-04-30T17:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T21:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=67"},"modified":"2018-04-30T17:00:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T21:00:43","slug":"incredible-discovery-passages-bible-revealed-behind-ancient-quran-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2018\/04\/incredible-discovery-passages-bible-revealed-behind-ancient-quran-manuscript.html","title":{"rendered":"Incredible Discovery: Passages From the Bible Revealed Behind Ancient Qur\u2019an Manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Koran\"<\/p>\n

A French scholar has identified the outlines of passages from the Bible behind an eighth-century manuscript of the Qur\u2019an. This discovery is extraordinary as it is \u201cthe only recorded palimpsest in which a Christian text has been effaced to make way for the Islamic holy text,\u201d according to The Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Dr. El\u00e9onore Cellard discovered that there was a faint manuscript of the Bible behind the ancient Qur\u2019an text when she examined an image of the eighth century Qur\u2019an, which was sold by Christie\u2019s Auction House in London 10 years ago. As Cellard more closely examined the image she noticed Coptic letters that appeared faintly behind the Arabic script.<\/p>\n

Once Cellard made the discovery, she contacted the auction house where they worked together and made another incredible discovery. They found that the Coptic text was coming from the Old Testament\u2019s Book of Deuteronomy, which is part of the Torah and the Christian Old Testament.<\/p>\n

This is a fascinating historical find and an extremely rare find.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a very important discovery for the history of the Qur\u2019an and early Islam. We have here a witness of cultural interactions between different religious communities,\u201d Cellard said, according to The Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Researchers believe the manuscript is likely to have been produced in Egypt, a home to the Coptic community at the time of the Arab conquest. Christie\u2019s Auction House is selling pieces of the manuscript at auction for \u00a380,000 to \u00a3120,000 ($111,549 to $167,323 USD).<\/p>\n

The Coptic writing most likely came around the seventh century, but it\u2019s difficult to determine the precise timeline, Christie\u2019s specialist Romain Pingannaud said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you know it\u2019s there you can only see it, it becomes so obvious,\u201d Pingannaud said. \u201cWe missed it at the beginning. It\u2019s fascinating, particularly because it\u2019s the only example where you have an Arabic text on top of a non-Arabic text. And what\u2019s even more fascinating is it is on top of passages from the Old Testament\u2026it shows the contact between communities in the first centuries of Islam; it\u2019s very relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the auction house, only a handful of Quranic palimpsests have ever been recorded, reported Hawzah News Agency<\/em>. One example was two leaves from a seventh century Hijazi Qur\u2019an, copied over an earlier text of the Qur\u2019an.<\/p>\n

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