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AN INTERESTING DOCUMENT
PUBLISHED BY BRITISH MUSEUM.
(Received Last Night, 10.5 o'clock.)
LONDON, April 15
The British Museum has published n. Coptic version of the greater part Of the Book of Deuteronomy, the whole of the Book of Joshua, and nearly all the Acts of the Apostles, from papyrus found in Egypt in 1911. It is a copy of the pre-existent document, and is not an independent translation. It was probably written before the end of-the third It confirms the spread of Christianity in •Egypt.
(The discovery in Egypt of classical Greek authors', written, on papyrus, begun about tho middle of the 19th Century, arid the results have been on the whole beyond expectation. Papyrus was made from, strips of the pith of papyrus trees, which grew in Egypt. It used as paper by the Greeks after- the time of Alexander the Great!
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10609, 16 April 1912, Page 5
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153BIBLE RECORDS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10609, 16 April 1912, Page 5
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