The Bible was translated into Old Nubian during the period when Christianity was dominant in Nubia (southern Egypt and northern Sudan).
[4] All of the Old Nubian biblical fragments, including quotations of the Bible in other works, have been gathered and edited by G. Michael Browne (1994).
[5] In 1906, Carl Schmidt rediscovered the Nubian Bible in Cairo when he purchased sixteen pages of a parchment codex containing parts of a lectionary for the Christmas season, December 20–26.
The biblical readings are drawn from the Apostolos (specifically Romans, Galatians, Philippians and Hebrews) and the Gospels (Matthew and John).
[8] Also recovered from Qasr Ibrim was a six-word fragment identified by Browne as belonging to a Nubian translation of the Syriac Diatessaron of Tatian.