It is always useful to see things from the perspective of other people -as to how they decide which text is authentic and which is just junk or collection of myths (read Indian scriptures)
This Asian exhibition (below) runs from Oct 21 to jan 7 in Washington DC -if I get the work visa issued by US consulate here tomorrow (they asked me to pay up the $50 fee (besides the initial $100 fee)-presumably for visa issuance today) then I might be able to see it. Umesh PS: From the article: Another important source is the Holy Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai in Egypt, whose holdings of ancient documents are second only to the Vatican's. The monastery lent seven works, including a Greek and Arabic side-by-side translation of the Psalms and Odes. The Israel Museum has restored the Isaiah 2 portion of Dead Sea Scrolls especially for this exhibition. Though the Hebrew material is small, the exhibition will include a leaf of 2 Chronicles known as the Aleppo Codex, written by Rabbi Aaron Ben Asher and found about 930. It is one of the six oldest surviving Hebrew codices. New York's Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum is sending the Zir Ganela Gospels, a bound manuscript from Ethiopia, believed to be from the 10th or 11th century. It is the newest object in the exhibition. "We have the parchment scraps from the desert" and other early texts unearthed by archaeologists, Raby says. "And then we show how the format became iconic." One item is the Epistles Tablet, two wooden fragments with excerpts from Paul's letters to Timothy and James in Greek, lent by the Austrian National Library. Another is the oldest known manuscript of the Books of Numbers and Deuteronomy; it was written in Greek in about 150. It comes from the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. The narrative will follow the organization of the religious writings into the Bible as it is known today. It will trace how the Gospels and other writings were used and distributed. Raby said three important discoveries have expanded the knowledge of Biblical writing of ancient times, and some samples are part of the exhibition. In 1848 a group of excavators found a 4th-century manuscript at St. Catherine's. The Codex Sinaiticus made its way to Russia, and in 1930 Stalin sold it to the British Library. In the late 19th century, a treasure-trove of material, nearly 200,000 items, was found at the Genizah, or storehouse, at the synagogue of Fostat in Cairo. Freer later bought several of them in 1906, and others from that find are the backbone of the British collections. The Cambridge University Library is lending a crate of parchment fragments given to the library by original excavators. A third discovery was at el-Bahnasa or Oxyrhynchus, an important archaeological site in Egypt where a team of British excavators in the late 1890s was shocked by what it found in the rubbish of an ancient library. Eventually it uncovered 5,000 items, including papyrus texts. Several of them will be at the Sackler, including an early Christian book roll from the British Library. On display will be two manuscripts of the Gospel of Thomas. In addition to the one on loan from Oxford's Bodleian Library, another lent by the Bodleian Library was found at the Nag Hammadi Library in Egypt during an excavation in 1945. 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