03-18-2009, 05:36 PM
Paul. Andrew, and other Aramaic scholars:
Contact your local Roman Catholic Bishop, and politely ask him if to be allowed to make a scholarly study of the 78 A.D. Syriac book located in the Vatican Archives. If direct access is not available, ask if a photocopy has been made of the pages or could be made for research purposes.
Please don't suggest that the book was stolen. Ethics and practice of Archaeology have changed over the years, so that such finds formerly became the property of the finder. The German archeologists who found the ancient city of Pergamon, took the buildings apart and carefully reconstructed them in the "Pergoaon" museum located in east Berlin.
Otto
Contact your local Roman Catholic Bishop, and politely ask him if to be allowed to make a scholarly study of the 78 A.D. Syriac book located in the Vatican Archives. If direct access is not available, ask if a photocopy has been made of the pages or could be made for research purposes.
Please don't suggest that the book was stolen. Ethics and practice of Archaeology have changed over the years, so that such finds formerly became the property of the finder. The German archeologists who found the ancient city of Pergamon, took the buildings apart and carefully reconstructed them in the "Pergoaon" museum located in east Berlin.
Otto