500 years old "New Testament" found in a warehouse in Elason

A rare 500-year-old “New Testament” has been found in a warehouse in Elazone. According to Thanasis Pidis in ERT Larissa, it is a 1565 “New Testament” written by Calvin's student Teodoro Beza.

He had to turn to the partner of the award-winning French archaeologist and epigraphologist with vast experience in the history of Thessaly, Bruno Elie, the Byzantinologist Richard Bouchon, professor at the University of Lyon, who, after the relevant photographs sent to him by Thanasis Pidis, established that this book was published in Geneva in 1565.

This is an analysis of the New Testament in three languages, Greek, Latin and French, by the eminent theologian of the time, Theodore Beza. He was a French Protestant Calvinist theologian, reformer and scholar who played an important role in the Protestant Reformation. He was a student of John Calvin and lived most of his life in Geneva. Beza became Calvin's successor as the spiritual leader of the Protestants.

In 1565 Beza published an edition of the Greek New Testament, accompanied in parallel columns by the Vulgate text and his own translation. To it were added the comments also previously published, but now he enriched and considerably expanded them. In preparing this edition of the Greek text, but still more in preparing the second edition which appeared in 1582, Beza may have had the assistance of two very valuable manuscripts.

One of them, known as the Codex Bezae or Cantabrigensis, was later donated by Beza to the University of Cambridge, where it is kept in the Cambridge University Library; the other, the Codex Claromontanus, which he himself found at Clermont (it is now in the National Library of France in Paris).

He also contacted the head of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Larissa to ensure the preservation and proper use of the book. Of course, it remains unknown how she got to Elassona from Geneva.

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