497 | Why the Sana Manuscripts is Considered a Palimpsest? Dr. Jay

The Sana manuscripts is a palimpsest manuscripts ; which means
that there is a lower and upper layers of writing . Scholars say
that the two writings are late seventh and early eighth century
respectively.  They think that it is two versions of the
Quran; the first is a pre- standard Quran which was erased and
rewritten as the canonical version.  On comparing the two
writing , it was found that there are seventy variants between
the two.  Dr Jay says that the lower text was erased because
it needed to be updated.   


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