I'm in seminary at the moment, and one of the ways in which we have found copies of books that were not canonically included in the Scriptures copied over and over again in monasteries is we found them in landfills. I guess it's something about the layering of waste that gives landfills the ability to at some times preserve and at other …
I'm in seminary at the moment, and one of the ways in which we have found copies of books that were not canonically included in the Scriptures copied over and over again in monasteries is we found them in landfills. I guess it's something about the layering of waste that gives landfills the ability to at some times preserve and at other times rot their contents. I'm not sure if our modern day landfills will be as successful as Greek or Roman ones at mysteriously preserving their contents, but wouldn't that be cool?
I'm in seminary at the moment, and one of the ways in which we have found copies of books that were not canonically included in the Scriptures copied over and over again in monasteries is we found them in landfills. I guess it's something about the layering of waste that gives landfills the ability to at some times preserve and at other times rot their contents. I'm not sure if our modern day landfills will be as successful as Greek or Roman ones at mysteriously preserving their contents, but wouldn't that be cool?