Religious Studies Blog

Upcoming Visit to the Passages Exhibit!

We are planning another visit to the Passages Exhibit! All MSU Religious Studies majors, minors, and graduate students attend free.

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by Jane Terry

Codex Climaci Rescriptus, 6th – 9th century AD. The Codex Climaci Rescriptus is a palimpsest—a manuscript from which the text has been scraped away or washed off, and the pages used again. Underneath the top layer of writing, which contains a 9th-century monastic text in Syriac, are portions of ancient Biblical manuscripts written in 6th-7th century Greek and 6th-century Christian Palestinian Aramaic. This manuscript, based on an original text which may date from the 4th century, is the world’s largest corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic, the dialect that would have been closest to Jesus’ household language.
Codex Climaci Rescriptus, 6th – 9th century AD.

We are planning another visit to the Passages Exhibit!  All MSU Religious Studies majors, minors, and graduate students are invited to attend on Wednesday, October 1, 2014, 3:30-6:00 p.m., and GET IN FREE!  The department will pay your entrance fee.

Please RSVP to: Jane Terry, 836-5514, if you plan to attend.  Click here for the flyer.