Jews continued to use a Greek version of the Bible in synagogues for centuries longer than previously thought.
New research has uncovered a forgotten chapter in the history of the Bible, offering a rare glimpse of Byzantine Jewish life and culture.
The study by Cambridge University researchers suggests that, contrary to long-accepted views, Jews continued to use a
Greek version of the Bible in synagogues for centuries longer than previously thought. In some places, the practice continued
almost until living memory.
The key to the new discovery lay in manuscripts, some of them mere fragments, discovered in an old synagogue in Egypt and
brought to Cambridge at the end of the 19th century. The so-called Cairo Genizah manuscripts have been housed ever since in
Cambridge University Library.
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