The Book of Isaiah under the sands of Egypt https://bitsthebible.runboard.com/t283 Runboard| The Book of Isaiah under the sands of Egypt en-us Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:14:37 +0000 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:14:37 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 The Book of Isaiah under the sands of Egypthttps://bitsthebible.runboard.com/p1241,from=rss#post1241https://bitsthebible.runboard.com/p1241,from=rss#post1241The archaeological mystery has been solved! The latest research shows that the manuscript found by Polish archaeologists in the village of Gourna (Sheikh abd el-Gourna) near Luxor in Upper Egypt contains the entire biblical book of Isaiah in the Coptic translation. “This is the first complete translation of this book in Coptic” – says Prof. Ewa Wipszycka-Bravo of the Institute of Archaeology at Warsaw University click here for the full story Note: Coptic is the most recent phase of ancient Egyptian. It is the direct descendant of the ancient language written in Egyptian hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic scripts. The Coptic alphabet is a slightly modified form of the Greek alphabet, with some letters (which vary from dialect to dialect) deriving from demotic. As a living language of daily conversation, Coptic flourished from ca. 200 to 1100. nondisclosed_email@example.com (Pastor Rick)Sat, 01 Jul 2006 23:18:11 +0000