Ethiopian Monks Just Released a Forbidden Page From The Bible — The Church Tried to Destroy It скачать в хорошем качестве

Ethiopian Monks Just Released a Forbidden Page From The Bible — The Church Tried to Destroy It

Researchers at Oxford University confirmed what Ethiopian monks have guarded for fifteen centuries: the oldest illustrated Christian manuscripts on earth never left their mountain monastery. What those monks have been guarding — and what some of them were recently ordered to destroy — turns out to be something the rest of the Christian world was never meant to see. Deep inside a monastery carved into the cliffs of northern Ethiopia, a handful of monks made a decision. They had held a manuscript for generations. They had been told, explicitly, that it should never leave their walls. Some accounts suggest they were told to go further than that — to remove it from existence entirely. They didn't.