#New bible discovery archive#

Optimally, a team can shoot between 12 pictures a day, varying on the size and condition of the manuscripts. Each four-person team uses special digital cameras, uploading the images onto bus-powered external hard drives connected to laptops. When CSNTM sends out a team on an expedition, a lot of preparation is needed. Sinai in Egypt, The Vatican, Cambridge University, Oxford University, the British Library, Dresden, Cologne, Berlin, Florence, Harvard University, Duke University, the University of Michigan, The Smithsonian Institution, and several other sites. I have also examined manuscripts first-hand at St. John the Theologian on the island of Patmos, Greece and a few sites in the United States. Istanbul) at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of the Orthodox Church at the Institut fГјr neutestamentliche Textforschung or Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) in MГјnster, Germany at TГјbingen University, Germany at the Monastery of St. CSNTM had photographed manuscripts in Constantinople (a.k.a. The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) is a five-year-old non-profit institute dedicated to high-resolution digital preservation of ancient handwritten copies of the New Testament. Nevila Nika, the general director of the National Archive, seeking permission to send a team to Tirana to digitally photograph the thirteen manuscripts. In December 2006, as the executive director of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts ( I wrote a letter to Dr. Only two of the manuscripts had ever been photographed, both with microfilm decades ago. A large part of the reason was due to the fact that Albania is a former police state. Western scholars had tried for decades to gain access to them.

#New bible discovery archive#

As of June 2007, thirteen (13) Greek New Testament manuscripts were known to exist in the National Archive in Tirana, Albania.