Scholar keeps focus on photos of manuscripts
Sacred translation
March 22, 2008
Deborah Fleck
Armed with high-tech cameras and computers, Daniel B. Wallace travels around the world to photograph New Testament manuscripts that are many centuries old. The pages are often fragile and the writing may be faded. His work assures that the treasured contents will be preserved.
His goal is to photograph 1.3 million pages of Greek New Testament manuscripts - a project he expects to take until 2020.
...Warren Carter, professor of New Testament at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas, said the work of Wallace and others is crucial: "It preserves ancient manuscripts, which are the basis for contemporary translations of the Bible and ... ensures access to manuscripts for as many scholars as possible." And it may stimulate additional study, he said.