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The Book of Isaiah under the sands of Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/ft2bo (
en.naukawpolsce.pl)
"The archaeological mystery has been solved! The latest research shows that the manuscript found by Polish archaeologists in the village of Gourna (Sheikh abd el-Gourna) near Luxor in Upper Egypt contains the entire biblical book of Isaiah in the Coptic translation. “This is the first complete translation of this book in Coptic” – says Prof. Ewa Wipszycka-Bravo of the Institute of Archaeology at Warsaw University."
See the above page for the full story.
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