A team of four would be returning from the island of Patmos three days before the Albanian team would set out. In the spring of 2007, the reply came from Tirana: yes! Preparations were made, and schedules were coordinated. The images that the Center retains are stored in multiple locations and backed up with a RAID system for double insurance. An image can be as large as 48 megabytes, and is able to be ‘blown up’ to a poster size of 3 feet x 4 feet without any pixelation. Everything is burned onto DVDs in triplicate, and the library gets a copy of the images for its own use. In addition, tripods, reflectors, DVD burners, hundreds of DVDs, backup cameras and computers, and specially-designed cradles to hold the manuscripts are also lugged on these expeditions. Plenty of camera and computer batteries, along with several chargers, are brought. All of the equipment that is brought to a site must be battery operated because the conditions on-site are unknown ahead of time and electrical power is not always reliable. Each page of a manuscript is shot separately those with faint text or text that has been erased and reused for another document (known as a palimpsest) are also photographed with UV light. Optimally, a team can shoot between 12 pictures a day, varying on the size and condition of the manuscripts. Each four-person team uses special digital cameras, uploading the images onto bus-powered external hard drives connected to laptops. When CSNTM sends out a team on an expedition, a lot of preparation is needed. Sinai in Egypt, The Vatican, Cambridge University, Oxford University, the British Library, Dresden, Cologne, Berlin, Florence, Harvard University, Duke University, the University of Michigan, The Smithsonian Institution, and several other sites. I have also examined manuscripts first-hand at St. John the Theologian on the island of Patmos, Greece and a few sites in the United States. Istanbul) at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of the Orthodox Church at the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung or Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) in Münster, Germany at Tübingen University, Germany at the Monastery of St. CSNTM had photographed manuscripts in Constantinople (a.k.a. The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) is a five-year-old non-profit institute dedicated to high-resolution digital preservation of ancient handwritten copies of the New Testament. Nevila Nika, the general director of the National Archive, seeking permission to send a team to Tirana to digitally photograph the thirteen manuscripts. In December 2006, as the executive director of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts ( I wrote a letter to Dr.
Only two of the manuscripts had ever been photographed, both with microfilm decades ago. A large part of the reason was due to the fact that Albania is a former police state.
Western scholars had tried for decades to gain access to them.
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As of June 2007, thirteen (13) Greek New Testament manuscripts were known to exist in the National Archive in Tirana, Albania.
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