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14,000 Pages of Assyrian Eastern Manuscripts

Posted By: Benjamin Daniali (adsl-69-225-30-59.dsl.skt2ca.pacbell.net)
Date: Tuesday, 14 March 2006, at 1:20 a.m.

By default anything Ex-Bishop Soro was involved in is or would be considered a problem.

On April 1st of 2004 desertnews.com published an article in regard of 14,000 pages of Assyrian eastern manuscripts saying that Brigham Young University has now permission from Vatican's Library to publish these very old manuscripts on a DVD.

...One monk died in the accident, but the treasured writings of Ephrem the poet — copied by Assyrian monks in A.D. 522 and 523 — were saved and laid on the shore to dry in the early 18th century sun.

From there, the manuscripts traveled to the bowels of the Vatican Library and nearly 300 years of exile, out of reach of members of the Eastern Christian churches who revere Ephrem — until the Vatican agreed to let teams from Brigham Young University scan 14,000 pages of Syriac Christian writings and publish the color images next month on a DVD...

The university and Vatican is calling these manuscripts Syriac, but I checked and they look nothing like Syriac. In fact they are written in Assyrian. Ex-Bishop Soro is there. He is visiting the university, and he comments passionately on these texts, but he does not say anything about the mistake they are making in referring to the manuscripts as Syriac or chinese! :)

Guys the DVD is available now. Buy it, or the treasure would be lost in history again.

Here are the links:
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Vatican lets BYU publish old texts
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,595052971,00.html

Where to Buy from?
http://www.byubookstore.com/ePOS?store=1&item_number=1879714&form=shared3%2fgm%2fdetail%2ehtml&design=1#

Sample High Resolution Images
http://byunews.byu.edu//releases/archive04/Mar/manuscripts/vatican3-h.jpg

http://byunews.byu.edu/photo_download.aspx?image=/releases/archive04/Mar/manuscripts/vatican4-h.jpg

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