This elite status among New Testament manuscripts only began in the 20th century. Textus Receptus supporters would argue that although the papyri are old manuscripts, if you look at the sometimes older church fathers quotations of the bible, the many versions in other languages, also the support of 99% of other Greek manuscripts thoughout history, we discover that the'majority of witnesses and the most geographically divers support the Textus Receptus, and thus should be preferred - not a small group from Egypt - although ancient. In general, they are considered the earliest and best witnesses to the original text of the New Testament by many biblical scholars. To date, over one hundred and twenty such papyri are known. Read more in the Danish version of this article at Videnskab.A New Testament papyrus is a copy of a portion of the New Testament made on papyrus. Now the time has come to recognise them.” “Today there are still a number of sources that theoretically were known by scientists but still sat dormant in various collections around the world without anyone looking at them in detail. Therefore every singly contribution is important,” he says. “We still have a very fragmented knowledge of the natural sciences in Ancient Egypt. Translating the unpublished texts is important work, according to Egyptologist Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert from the Department of Egyptology, University of Leipzig, Germany. Read More: Medicine in Antiquity: From ancient temples to Roman logistics "E very singly contribution is important" “That really puts things into perspective, as it shows that the Egyptian ideas have left traces thousands of years later,” says Schiødt. The same pregnancy test used by Egyptians is referred to in a collection of German folklore from 1699. From here, they spread further to the medieval medical texts in the Middle East, and you can find traces all the way up to premodern medicine,” she says. “Many of the ideas in the medical texts from Ancient Egypt appear again in later Greek and Roman texts. Her research reveals that the ideas recorded in the Egyptian medical texts spread far beyond the African continent. And if neither of the bags sprout then she wasn’t pregnant,” says Schiødt. Depending on which bag sprouts first reveals the sex of her child. “The text says that a pregnant woman should pee into a bag of barley and a bag of wheat. The other side, describes the Ancient Egyptian equivalent of a pregnancy test and scan. Read More: Bull fat, bats blood, and lizard poop were the drugs of choice in ancient Egypt Papy rus text discovered in Germany One side of the manuscript describes unusual treatments for eye diseases, says Schiødt. One of our medical texts was written 3,500 years ago when there was no written material on the European continent,” he says.Īnalysing this 3,500-year-old text is the job of PhD student, Sofie Schiødt from the University of Copenhagen. But we have Egyptian material that goes much further back. “When you hear about the history of science, the focus is often on the Greek and Roman material. The unpublished manuscripts provide a unique insight to the history of science, says Ryholt. Read More: Danish Bronze Age glass beads traced to Egypt “For example, a king needed to check when was a good day to go to war,” he says.Īstrology was their way of avoiding going to war on a bad day, such as when the celestial bodies were aligned in a particular configuration. It was an important tool for predicting the future and it was considered a very central science,” says Ryholt. “Today, astrology is seen as a pseudoscience, but in antiquity it was different. The papyri also reveal insights into the Egyptian view on astrology. Until now, some researchers thought that the Egyptians didn’t know about kidneys, but in this text we can clearly see that they did,” says Jacob. “It’s the oldest known medical text to discuss the kidneys. Sofie Schiødt in front of a 3,500-year-old medical papyrus.
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