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BBC reports that about 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible, the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, have been recovered and put on the Internet. 'The Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world's greatest written treasures,' says Dr. Scot McKendrick, head of Western manuscripts at the British Library. '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 New Testament of the Codex Sinaiticus appears in Koine Greek, the original vernacular language, and the Old Testament in the version, known as the Septuagint, that was adopted by early Greek-speaking Christians. 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 British Library is marking the online launch of the manuscript with an exhibition which includes a range of historic items and artifacts linked to the document. '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.
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Source http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/
preachinjesus
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Looked at it yesterday. Even read through a passage in Matthew. Really good stuff.
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Tried the link.
It's showing what I think is an error page, in German.
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Old News http://www.csntm.org/Manuscripts/GA 03/
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They have far far far more translated now than they did just a few months ago.
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What! This is old news. I already posted this in July of 08 and no one cared, why all the sudden the WOW factor. You can also view the Vaticanus. Follow ehuds threads.
Here is the Codex Vaticanus online
http://www.csntm.org/Manuscripts/GA 03/
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It's "WOW" because reading the Bible is better than reading Will's threads. :laugh:
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well, going by KJBO (il-)"logic," we should all be Sinaiticus-Onlyists cos it says at 2 Tim. 3:16 :
16 παϲα
γραφη
θεοπνευϲτοϲ
και
ωφελιμοϲ
προϲ
διδαϲκαλιαν
·
προϲ
ελεγμον
˙
προϲ
επανορθωϲιν
·
προϲ
παιδιαν
την
εν
δικαιοϲυνη
17 ϊνα
αρτιοϲ
η
ο
του
θυ
ανθρωποϲ
προϲ
παν
εργον
αγαθο
εξηρτιϲμενοϲ
16
All scripture is by inspiration of God, and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness, 17
that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished for every good work.
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but don't hold ur collective breath!