NOTED ARCHAEOLOGIST
DR. BENDEL HARRIS DEAD. Dr. James Rondel Harris, the noted Biblical scholar, archaeologist, and Orientalist, died in Birmingham recently, aged 89. Nearly 20 years after he had acquired it in Egypt, a section of papyri was proved to be the oldest known fragment of the Bible, a papyrus roll of the Book of Deuteronomy.
When he acquired the papyri in 1017 from a Fellahin, who had hidden it away, he was recuperating from the effects of spending two days in a boat in the Mediterranean after his ship had been torpedoed. On his way back to England his ship was again torpedoed, but Dr. Harris had left the papyri behind.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1941, Page 7
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