World's oldest Christian Bible goes online
Tuesday July 7, 2009
More than 160 years ago, a scholar named Constantine Tischendorf came upon a Bible in the Monastery of St. Catherine in the Sinai desert. Recognizing its significance, he took some of the pages away with him to have them published in Germany. He returned again, and again, to take more pages, which wound up scattered in Germany and Russia. Later, some of the pages were purchased by the British Library.
Since then, the Codex Sinaiticus, believed to have been written in the fourth century, has remained in pieces in Britain, Egypt, Russia and Germany. Now the surviving pages have been digitized and brought together in the Codex Sinaiticus project. Biblical scholars and theologians will find particular significance in the portions contained in the Codex that aren't found in modern editions, as well as elements that are missing from the Codex. However, Juan Garces, the British Library project curator, said "It's for everyone, really a wide audience."
Find out more in the article by Richard Allen Greene at CNN.com or the item by Nardine Saad at the Associated Press.
That should be ‘more than 1,600 years ago’. You may want to update it. But thanks so much for the info!
Actually, “More than 160 years ago” is correct. Constantine Tischendorf came across the Codex in the 1840s. And you’re very welcome to the info; I thank my twitter buddy Czarjames for drawing my attention to it
Well, here’s a bit of progress! The Truth Detectives have waited a long time for further releases on the Dead Sea Scrolls so, anything which gets us back further than the Vatican has got to be of interest. Personally, I am waiting to find out more about the Essene carpenter, whose name certainly wasn’t (and isn’t)Jesus.