The article Boogerman provided in the link at https://www.iflscience.com/new-chapter-of-the-bible-found-hidden-inside-1750-year-old-text-68417 is important. That is because the article says "... the latest find was particularly special, containing a translation a century older than the oldest Greek translations, including the Codex Sinaiticus." However the article shouldn't have stated that ancient Greek NT manuscripts are translations of the NT (unless it can demonstrated that they are, such as proving that the NT was first written in Syraic). But despite saying the discovery is of a translation older than the Sinaiticus, the article says the discovered text "... was first written in the 3rd century CE and copied in the 6th century CE" thus the one found is a 6th century copy instead of a 3rd century copy. https://catholicherald.co.uk/long-lost-chapter-of-bible-discovered/ confirms it from the 6th century since it says the "... biblical text has been discovered nearly 1,500 years after it was initially written".
Another new missing part of the Bible found
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Earnest
Disillusioned JW : But despite saying the discovery is of a translation older than the Sinaiticus, the article says the discovered text "... was first written in the 3rd century CE and copied in the 6th century CE"
The article in LiveScience throws a bit more light on the subject. It says :
The most recent text on the parchment is written in Georgian, and there is an earlier text underneath it written in Greek. But when Grigory Kesselpens in new tab), a scholar who studies Syriac with the Austrian Academy of Sciences, examined UV images provided by the Vatican library, he found yet another layer hidden beneath the Greek text.
The Old Syriac text contains part of Matthew 12:1. Kessel speculated that someone copied the verse onto the parchment during the sixth century. Based on the language, Kessel estimates that the original may have been produced in the third century.
The article Kessel wrote [A New (Double Palimpsest) Witness to the Old Syriac Gospels (Vat. iber. 4, ff. 1 & 5)] can be found in New Testament Studies where he says that there can be no doubt that it was produced no later than the sixth century. Despite a limited number of dated manuscripts from this period, comparison with dated Syriac manuscripts allows us to narrow down a possible time frame to the first half of the sixth century.
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peacefulpete
It's a nice find. In brief what is means is the distribution of the Curetonian variants appear to have been more established than what could be earlier demonstrated. No huge revelation. It is interesting that the new fragment agrees with the Curetonian wording in following Luke in including the rubbing phrase and in posing the following objection of the Pharisees as a question rather than a statement as the majority text reads. In my mind this suggests a conscious effort here at harmonization with Luke. Who knows, by this point in time the text was pretty well established and set by tradition.