Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1911 — First Century Find. [ARTICLE]

First Century Find.

President Solomon Schetchter of the Jewish theological seminary of America has discovered a Hebrew manuscript in Cairo, Egypt, where it is said to have been cherished with great care for 1,000 years by the Jewish congregation. It is claimed that the document was written in the first century of the Christian era. It has been translated by Prof. Schetchter and published by the university press in England. It purports to be an address by a religious leader to his followers. The references are held by George Margoliouth, custodian of Hebrew manuscripts in the British museum, to apply to John the Baptist, and Jesus and Paul. John is called a Messiah who led the people to meditate on their sins, Je/us a preacher of righteousness, and Paul a scoffer —presumably because of his dissent from Judaisfii. Ml The writer and bis followers to have belonged to a sect, half Jewish and halt Christian, which fled to Damascus after the destruction of Jerusalem.