Hebrew make a greater difference than in my reading of the Third Gospel. In the ancient world, a scribe or author would often rub the writing off an old parchment in order to reclaim the surface for a new text. The result was called a palimpsest. A complete erasure of the first hand would practically destroy a parchment, so palimpsests were treated more kindly and invariably retain the faint but visible ligatures of the original lettering beneath the most recent text. Reading the Greek NT with a