1500 year-old ‘ Syriac ‘ Bible found in Ankara, Turkey : Vatican in shock !
The relic was 'rediscovered' in the depositum of Ankaran Justice Palace, the ancient version of bible is believed to be written in Syriac, a dialect of the native language of Jesus.
The bible was already in custody of Turkish authorities after having been seized in 2000 in an operation in Mediterranean area in Turkey.
The gang of smugglers had been charged with smuggling antiquities, illegal excavations and the possession of explosives and went to trial. Turkish police testified in a court hearing they believe the manuscript in the bible could be about 1500 to 2000 years old.After waiting eight years in Ankara the ancient bible is being transferred to the Ankaran Ethnography Museum with a police escort.
Ancient Bible will be shown in Ankaran Ethnography Museum
The bible, whose copies are valued around 3-4 Mil. Dollars had been transferred to Ankara for safety reasons, since no owners of the ancient relic could be found.
The manuscript carries excerpts of the Bible written in gold lettering on leather and loosely strung together, with lines of Syriac script with Aramaic dialect. Turkish authorities express the bible is a cultural asset and should be protected for being worthy of a museum.
Ancient Bible in Aramaic dialected Syriac rediscovered in Turkey
Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic – the native language of Jesus – once spoken across much of the Middle East and Central Asia. It is used wherever there are Syrian Christians and still survives in the Syrian Orthodox Church in India and a village in the vicinity of Syrian capital Damascus. Aramaic is also still used in religious rituals of Maronite Christians in Cyprus.
Experts were however divided over the provenance of the manuscript, and whether it was an original, which would render it priceless, or a fake. Other questions surround the discovery of the ancient bible, whether the smugglers had had other copies of the relic or had smuggled them from Turkey.
Vatican eyes the faith of the ancient relic
The Vatican reportedly placed an official request to examine the scripture, which was written on pages made of animal hide in the Aramaic language using the Syriac alphabet.
The copy of the ancient Bible is valued as high as 40 million Turkish Liras ( 28 Mil. Dollars)
I wouldn’t let the Vile Demonic Vatican lay eyes on this Holy book!
After examining the text, the external and internal evidence, and after having discovered its medieval character and the obvious attempt to islamise this “Gospel”, we conclude that the Gospel of Barnabas was written by a Muslim to convince Christians of “the truth of Islam”. Instead of propagating Islam, he disguised the message and used the name of Barnabas to make his claims seem authentic. It is therefore, a forgery and a lie. It aims at destroying faith in the fundamentals of the Christian faith, including the atoning work of Christ on the cross. Christians disapprove for obvious reasons to such methods as forgery and lies.
We are bewildered that serious Muslims can devise such a book and promote it on such flimsy grounds, knowing it is a lie. Even when it is tempting to be used and expedient, this approach must be rejected. We regard it as a feeble effort to disguise the truth. We conclude that only when at a loss for better arguments could a dishonest man resort to such methods.
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Why is it said that it is a bible?? So if a Christian script was written in Arabic would that make it part of ‘some lost Quran’? Most Muslim would reject any Christian scriptures no matter how old and authentic they may be and wouldn’t care if it was written in Arabic either so why should Christian loose their faith over this finding based on the fact that is is old and was written Aramaic?? This said 1500 AD so the accounts written on this are highly questionable as it was much after Jesus era!
Perhaps this discovery is a good occasion to realize that none of the structured religions actually deliver what they have promised and have only kept us into fear. Thousands of years of religion have only made us go to war and fight each other. Time to experience it for your own and realize you don’t need a false mediator (=religion) to talk to God. So weather this is real or fake is of absolutely unimportant.
A little research goes a long way: The first use of the pound being used as a unit of weight dates to the ottoman Empire with its dealings with Italy and Spain. Meaning that this was written more recently, of course. Alot of people are also confusing the date 1500 A.D. with 1500 years ago…which means it’s predicting the past, not the future lol! But it is an interesting hoax, that will easily fool people…..until a little research is done. My thoughts on the whole things is you can’t use what you believe to be a fable to disprove a “fable”. Especially if the the thing you use to disprove it also supports most of it. Get it?
a cute apocryphe… Nothing worse being trusted in, but, this one seems well conserved and of a good design…
Origen (second century) said “Church has 4 gospel, heretics have plenty”
More that what we may imagin 😉
now d muslim will no that jesus is lord.that muhammed never existed.jesus need you muslim convert.we will make sure that all the muslim around the world convert to christianity
God’s Not Dead.
“Vatican in shock!” Actually, the Vatican and all of Christendom can hardly muster a passing yawn for this kind of recycled ‘news’, or the long discredited ‘Gospel’ of ‘Barnabas’. The beer-stained musical manuscripts of PDQ Bach discovered in trash dumps in North Dakota are much more worthy of credulity than is the G o B or these related farcical late-medieval mock-texts. Miss Molly!
The article seems more interested in value than content.
The content possibly being far more interesting than value, it seems a shame!!!!
How can you believe anything that was written 500 years after the death of jesus?
sooo paperclips for a book worth 3-4 million dollars?
Oh, how this would have actually mattered with a credible source. This is what’s called “a standalone publication”. No references, no sources, no nothing. Only reason anybody’s paying attention is that it’s published on a site that a lot of people visit. I’m afraid that doesn’t really count as legitimization in and of itself. As of now all other mentions of this book refers this article as the source. I believe that others would have wanted to verify the existence and context if it actually exist – And I’d LOVE this book to exist, but so far I don’t have any reason to believe it does 🙁
Any help in finding alternative sources?
Sadly this is just all hype! Read on. After some Kurds offered to sell it to the Vatican, the Vatican engaged the help of Dr. Asaad Sauma (An expert in Classical Syriac, and a Doctor at Uppsala University in Stockholm) to inspect the book. An official request for the book was made but he was denied physical access to it, however in 2003 about 10 electronic photographs were sent to him. He concluded it was “much ado about nothing” (a quote) Other quotes: “It is not divine, nor worth study on its own” “phrases are placed together that make no sense” “Nothing in this book is a useful phrase” “Those who made it do not have a good knowledge of the Syriac language” etc.. etc.. in short he wasn’t impressed and rejected it as a fake – sheer nonsense written “to confuse the reader”
A few days after the story broke in February 2012 he wrote an article explaining his views.
Other scholarly evidences from examination are totally lacking. What we so know is that the sudden appearance of a collection of Syriac quotes and words remains to be put up for scrutiny by Philologists and/or the public.
Disclaimer: I am a Christian whose faith is based on evidences, and analysis, and searching.