Manuscript Research Institute (MRI) is dedicated to establishing the most reliable Hebrew New Testament (NT).

The International Collection of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts, The Ktiv (ktiv = “written Word”) Project led by the National Library of Israel provides an online catalog of high-resolution digital images of Hebrew manuscripts preserved in libraries worldwide. 

MRI’s goal is to transcribe and freely provide accurate transcriptions of Hebrew NT manuscripts.

To achieve our goal MRI is developing an online database of these transcripts, opening wide for readers and scholars the windows of examination to these previously unavailable, unexplored, or unestablished manuscripts.

We invite all those who desire to look into the origins of the New Testament to examine and appreciate with us these various Hebrew manuscripts.

MRI holds to these facts:

• The disciples were witnesses to the teachings of Yeshua (Jesus) and the events of his ministry, as recorded in the B’rit Chadashah (New Testament). 
• The mindset of Yeshua’s disciples was formed from the perspective of the Hebrew culture they inherited and from the Jewish culture in which they lived.
• The Hebrew language was one of several active languages during the time the B’rit Chadashah was being formed. Whether it was being conveyed via oral tradition or in writing or both is a question that remains (paraphrase from “The Search for The Language of the New Testament” by Al Garza).

Facts and clues (known as linguistic markers) within the texts provide strong evidence for a Hebraic origin of the New Testament.  MRI is honored to provide transcriptions of Hebrew manuscripts free of charge in computer-downloadable documents previously unavailable to the average reader. Below is the publicly available transcription of Matthew and Mark as transcribed by our organization from the Manchester Gaster 1616 Manuscript, found here. 

Use the download button below to access these files. We encourage you to use them freely in your personal studies and research.