First millennium manuscript, open to Psalm 83, found in Irish mud

DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- Irish archaeologists Tuesday heralded the discovery of an ancient book of psalms by a construction worker while driving the shovel of his backhoe into a bog.

The approximately 20-page book has been dated to the years 800-1000. Trinity College manuscripts expert Bernard Meehan said it was the first discovery of an Irish early medieval document in two centuries.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/25/ireland.psalms.ap/index.html

Fascinating.

First millennium manuscript, open to Psalm 83, found in Irish mud



http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/25/ireland.psalms.ap/index.html

Fascinating.

It is interesting, here is another article http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060725/ap_on_sc/ireland_ancient_book

The book was found open to a page describing, in Latin script, Psalm 83, in which God hears complaints of other nations' attempts to wipe out the name of Israel.