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    Historic Bible pages put online


    About 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible have been recovered and put on the internet.

    Visitors to the website www.codexsinaiticus.org can now see images of more than half the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus manuscript.

    Fragments of the 4th Century document - written in Greek on parchment leaves - have been worked on by institutions in the UK, Germany, Egypt and Russia.

    Experts say it is "a window into the development of early Christianity".

    Preservation secrets

    Dr Scot McKendrick, head of Western manuscripts at the British Library, said the wide availability of the document presented many research opportunities.

    "The Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world's greatest written treasures," he said.

    "This 1,600-year-old manuscript offers a window into the development of early Christianity and first-hand evidence of how the text of the Bible was transmitted from generation to generation.

    "The availability of the virtual manuscript for study by scholars around the world creates opportunities for collaborative research that would not have been possible just a few years ago."

    The original version contained about 1,460 pages - each measuring 40cm by 35cm, he added.

    The British Library is marking the online launch of the manuscript with an exhibition - which includes a range of historic items and artefacts linked to the document.

    For 1,500 years, the Codex Sinaiticus lay undisturbed in a Sinai monastery until it was found in 1844 and split between Egypt, Russia, Germany and Britain.

    It is thought to have survived because the desert air was ideal for preservation and because the monastery, on a Christian island in a Muslim sea, remained untouched, its walls unconquered.

    The institutions' painstaking work can now be seen at http://www.codexsinaiticus.org.


    Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8135415.stm



    What is Codex Sinaiticus?

    Codex Sinaiticus, a manuscript of the Christian Bible written in the middle of the fourth century, contains the earliest complete copy of the Christian New Testament. The hand-written text is in Greek. The New Testament appears in the original vernacular language (koine) and the Old Testament in the version, known as the Septuagint, that was adopted by early Greek-speaking Christians. In the Codex, the text of both the Septuagint and the New Testament has been heavily annotated by a series of early correctors.

    The significance of Codex Sinaiticus for the reconstruction of the Christian Bible's original text, the history of the Bible and the history of Western book-making is immense.

    http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx
    "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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    Re: Historic Bible pages put online

    Amazing. I wonder what this book will reveal related to Christianity. I can't wait to get a read.
    THE ROAD TO FREEDOM AND JUSTICE IS A LONG ONE!

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      Re: Historic Bible pages put online

      Originally posted by Sako View Post
      Amazing. I wonder what this book will reveal related to Christianity. I can't wait to get a read.
      It's the Ot as far as I see so there will be very little about Christianity in it.

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        Re: Historic Bible pages put online

        Originally posted by KarotheGreat View Post
        It's the Ot as far as I see so there will be very little about Christianity in it.
        Care to expand on the "Ot"?
        "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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          Re: Historic Bible pages put online

          I second that!
          THE ROAD TO FREEDOM AND JUSTICE IS A LONG ONE!

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            Re: Historic Bible pages put online

            Originally posted by KanadaHye View Post
            Care to expand on the "Ot"?
            by Ot I mean the old testament, if you go the site and look around the books presented there are from the Old testament.

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              Re: Historic Bible pages put online

              I see. Still, I'd like to read the book.
              THE ROAD TO FREEDOM AND JUSTICE IS A LONG ONE!

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                Re: Historic Bible pages put online

                Originally posted by KarotheGreat View Post
                by Ot I mean the old testament, if you go the site and look around the books presented there are from the Old testament.
                If you click the little drop down menu, the New Testament is there as well. Although I'd like to see the original parchment leaves. I don't trust any of the countries that worked on this, lol.
                "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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