The advancement of these studies will no doubt reveal things completely unknown or only heard of in reference. I do hope this work proceeds apace. I had heard of similar techniques being used to reveal the reuse of canvas materials as well.

I loved it...so many things that I questioned way back when, no science answering thanks for sharing.

That was fun, I've read several pieces on the sources of the books of the Bible and am more than willing to keep an open mind. The Dead Sea Scrolls, Nag Hammadi Scrolls,etc. are either sources that point to the verasity of the 'Bible' or for us skeptics, free thinkers, etc. confirm nothing or show the holes in the man in the clouds. I enjoy archeology and new discoveries from our earliest ancesters is facinating.

John, not John the Baptist but John wrote Revelations. I think he spent approximately 2 months on an uninhabited island. He was a religious extremest. John went into a fast. During that fast, he wrote Revelations. I had a friend who fasted for 3 weeks once. She wound up in a Greek mental hospital, gone for 9 months. She said she ask the staff what she did while she was gone. They told her she sang a lot. She swears she was abducted by aliens. Either way, is not much consequence. Back to John. I have read Revelations. It is at best mostly symbolism. As far as I am concerned, I think Revelations would only mean anything to John, the crazy man who wrote the book.

What I find fascinating is the stories in the Bible that were lifted from previous cultures and incorporated as original stories to the Bible. Stories such as the Ten Commandments and Noahs Ark are just two that come to mind off hand.

Actually, Revelations as it turns out was a first century rant by an irate citizen predicting the fall of the empire. See Pagel, et. al. It does not predict the end times and never was intended to.

The story of humanity is itself a palimpsest, and we as individuals can only grow, adapt and evolve by overwriting bad or incomplete code. That ancient texts underwent constant revision, edification, interpolation and alteration there can be little doubt. But this brings into question the very term ‘revelation.’ And so here I must resort to quoting my avatar:
“It is a contradiction in terms and ideas, to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second-hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication—after this, it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it cannot be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner; for it was not a revelation made to me, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him.”
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, 1794

I have read about over written texts. It makes a lot of sense because paper was a scarce resource.

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This is generally what I am led to believe,especially to the biblical Jesus.
A lot of Christian texts were written over texts some of which were older versions of the religion or even century’s old manuscripts. To me it shows that a lot of things in the bible evolved from the original and are not true to the original texts.

Can you cite a researcher who has done this amazing work?

What is perplexing how many other thing the vatican and other controlling interest altered documents in order to control people.

Just nonsense. (IMHO)