Well to give us a little break from the usual news here is a little article complete with numerous pictures that I found last night before bed that I found very amusing. Trapped within the book bindings of some rather ancient books they found ancient doodles and/or notes. I found this to be highly interesting myself being something of a history nerd. However there is a little something for everyone in here.
For people that are particularly religious one will note of course the fact these are Christian monks, though not all these are about the Bible particularly, they do offer a window in the process of writing and copying prior to the invention of the printing press of which the Bible being a highly requested book in that time era would have been included. They also lend a bit of indirect support in other certain factors like the idea of faithful translation with some of the fragments and pages showing the monks practicing translation into several languages like Hebrew and Greek. Also very interesting is it includes some of the earliest known translation attempts of Arabic language by Europeans.
For those not particularly religious, well there's still some fun stuff in here that anyone can appreciate such as beautiful ancient calligraphy, some casual and funny ancient schoolhouse artwork ("doodles"), and even one of the oldest written musical notations.
700-year-old doodles by medieval scribes - CNN.com
For people that are particularly religious one will note of course the fact these are Christian monks, though not all these are about the Bible particularly, they do offer a window in the process of writing and copying prior to the invention of the printing press of which the Bible being a highly requested book in that time era would have been included. They also lend a bit of indirect support in other certain factors like the idea of faithful translation with some of the fragments and pages showing the monks practicing translation into several languages like Hebrew and Greek. Also very interesting is it includes some of the earliest known translation attempts of Arabic language by Europeans.
For those not particularly religious, well there's still some fun stuff in here that anyone can appreciate such as beautiful ancient calligraphy, some casual and funny ancient schoolhouse artwork ("doodles"), and even one of the oldest written musical notations.
700-year-old doodles by medieval scribes - CNN.com
