«Breaking News» University student, 21, becomes the fist person in two CENTURIES to read a religious script

A University student has cracked the code of a religious document dating back more than two centuries. 

The book includes incomprehensible shorthand notes made by Baptist leader Andrew Fuller and no academic has been able to decipher the work.  

University of St Andrews divinity undergraduate Jonny Woods has now become the first person in the world to read some of the pages using a longhand version as a kind of Rosetta stone. 

The contents of the texts have not been released as the scholars prepare to release a major new critical edition of Fuller's works.

The book includes incomprehensible shorthand notes and no academic has been able to decipher the work (pictured)

Fuller, the son of a poor tenant farmer in Cambridgeshire, became a leader of the British Baptist denomination and, despite minimal schooling, published a hugely influential text, The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation, which is said to have changed the history of the Baptists.

Mr Woods, from Coleraine, Co Londonderry, said it was exciting to crack the code enabling people to finally read documents Fuller left in shorthand. 

The 21-year-old third-year student said: 'To be able to read something that no-one else has read in more than 200 years, it's not something I thought I would ever be able to do and it was an incredible moment.

'It was quite a few weeks of tough and not very successful work, but eventually it paid off.'

He added: 'It is such an honour to be the first person to read Andrew Fuller's sermons and to allow people to get an insight into this incredible man and the amazing stories he has to share.

'I'm excited to continue working on the vast collection of work that he has left to us, in the hope that we can understand more about his thinking and how this developed throughout his ministry.'

The breakthrough came after Dr Steve Holmes, head of the School of Divinity at the university, found a shorthand document with the heading in longhand in the archive of Bristol Baptist College, which holds hundreds of pages of Fuller's sermons.

Dr Holmes found one headed in longhand 'Confessions of Faith, Oct. 7 1783' with the rest of the document in shorthand.

University of St Andrews divinity undergraduate Jonny Woods (pictured) has now become the first person in the world to read some of the pages using a longhand version as a kind of Rosetta stone

Knowing this was the date of Fuller's induction into the pastorate of a church in Kettering and that he would have been required to give a confession of faith as part of that service, Dr Holmes wondered if a copy of the confession printed in a biography might help him crack the code.

After discovering the two texts were the same, Dr Holmes recruited Mr Woods through the university's undergraduate research assistant scheme to help.

After a few weeks, the student was able to translate the shorthand using the longhand version as a kind of Rosetta stone, allowing him to read two of the most historically significant sermons from the collection.

It is hoped that being able to finally read the documents will offer insight into Fuller's meteoric rise within the Baptist denomination, by revealing the early development of his thought.

Dr Holmes said: 'When Jonny told me he could read these documents, it was an astonishing moment.

'Andrew Fuller stands as the figurehead, the 'patron saint' almost, of the church tradition of which I am a part.

'To be reading words of his that no-one had read since he preached them in 1782 - it's one of those moments you live for as an academic.'

The translations of two sermons are now with the Baptist Quarterly under consideration for publication while Dr Holmes is continuing to edit Fuller's wider collection of sermons for a major new critical edition of his works.

WHAT IS THE ROSETTA STONE?  

The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the British Museum.

The Stone is a broken part of a bigger stone slab and has a message carved into it in three types of writing (called scripts).

It was an important clue that helped experts learn to read Egyptian hieroglyphs.

 The writing on the Stone is an official message, called a decree, about the king (Ptolomey V, r. 204–181 BC).

The Rosetta Stone was found broken and incomplete. It features 14 lines of hieroglyphic script: 

When it was discovered, nobody knew how to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. 

Because the inscriptions say the same thing in three different scripts, and scholars could still read Ancient Greek, the Rosetta Stone became a valuable key to deciphering the hieroglyphs.

Source: British Museum

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The book includes incomprehensible shorthand notes made by Baptist leader Andrew Fuller and no academic has been able to decipher the work.  
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