So I'm reading an online news article describing attempts by scholars to read the badly damaged text of Europe's oldest book — an article that had nothing to do with the Church or BYU — when up pops the following sentence:
Last month, experts from Brigham Young University in Utah used multi-spectral digital analysis to create enhanced pictures of the text, which will be studied by Oxford University papyrologist Dirk Obbink and Pierris, and published by the end of 2007.
The new technique will recover 10-20% of the text previously unavailable to scholars studying the fragments, enough to make a big contribution to their understanding. Way to go, BYU. This team must have some connection to the ancient texts side of FARMS.
They were also involved in the analysis of the Gospel of Judas.
Posted by: Jared | Jun 02, 2006 at 07:37 AM
When I started reading that article yesterday and I saw that it was about text recovery I vaguely remembered reading last year that BYU had the multi-spectral imaging technology. Then, SURPRISE! there they are. Very cool.
Posted by: mistaben | Jun 02, 2006 at 02:15 PM
It actually has no direct connection to FARMS. The BYU portion of the project is being headed up by Roger Macfarlane of BYU's Classics dept.
Posted by: Carl G | Jun 05, 2006 at 01:33 PM
It is always nice to see byu in the news.
Posted by: James Fales | Jun 14, 2006 at 12:45 PM