Codex Sinaiticus Going Online

[HagiaSophia]

A manuscript containing the oldest known Biblical New Testament in the world is set to enter the digital age and become accessible online.

A team of experts from the UK, Europe, Egypt and Russia is currently digitising the parchment known as the Codex Sinaiticus, believed originally to have been one of 50 copies of the scriptures commissioned by Roman Emperor Constantine after he converted to Christianity.

The Bible, which is currently in the British Library in London, dates from the 4th Century.

“It is a very distinctive manuscript. No other manuscript looks like this,” Scot McKendrick, the head of the Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Department in the British Library, told BBC World Service’s Reporting Religion programme.

"On each very large page, about 14-16 inches (34-37cm) it has a Greek text written in four columns.

“That’s the really distinct feature of it - layers of text - it’s one of the fascinating aspects of it and it shows us how the Biblical text developed over a certain period, how it was interpreted in those crucial early years of Christianity.”

religionnewsblog.com/11891/Oldest-known-Bible-to-go-online

 

[Lazerlike42]

HagiaSophia:

it’s one of the fascinating aspects of it and it shows us how the Biblical text developed over a certain period, how it was interpreted in those crucial early years of Christianity."

I don’t like the way they put that…

 

[astralis]

Why not?

 

[Marie]

HagiaSophia:

A manuscript containing the oldest known Biblical New Testament in the world is set to enter the digital age and become accessible online.

A team of experts from the UK, Europe, Egypt and Russia is currently digitising the parchment known as the Codex Sinaiticus, believed originally to have been one of 50 copies of the scriptures commissioned by Roman Emperor Constantine after he converted to Christianity.

The Bible, which is currently in the British Library in London, dates from the 4th Century.

“It is a very distinctive manuscript. No other manuscript looks like this,” Scot McKendrick, the head of the Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Department in the British Library, told BBC World Service’s Reporting Religion programme.

"On each very large page, about 14-16 inches (34-37cm) it has a Greek text written in four columns.

“That’s the really distinct feature of it - layers of text - it’s one of the fascinating aspects of it and it shows us how the Biblical text developed over a certain period, how it was interpreted in those crucial early years of Christianity.”

religionnewsblog.com/11891/Oldest-known-Bible-to-go-online

I especially like this…

The Codex Sinaiticus contains the whole of the Christian Bible; specifically,** it has the oldest complete copy of the New Testament, as well as the Greek Old Testament, known as the Septuagint, which includes books now regarded as apocrypha.**

Wonder how the four square bible lite crowd will explain that one away!

Nice reference for the next time one of my yahoo Protestant nincompoop relatives (whom I love dearly btw…) throws out the old Catholics added to the bible garbage… Along with the church went underground until the Protestant Reformation…

 

[Maccabees]

I would have liked it better if they put it this way:

The Codex Sinaiticus contains the whole of the Christian Bible; specifically,it has the oldest complete copy of the New Testament, as well as the Greek Old Testament, known as the Septuagint, which includes books now regarded as the (duetrocanicals in the catholic canon and completly missing in protestant bibles today and referred to them as apocrapha.)

Anyway how do Protestants keep explaining that the oldest bibles in the world constantly show up with these books that they don’t have at all in their bibles? Of course some still think the King James Bible is the only authentic Word of God so go figure that one out for rationality.

Anyways its to obvious we didn’t add these books at Trent, this argument is so darn laughable to me that I shake my head everytime I hear it. But is amazing on these boards and in dialogue I hear it all the time. This is just plain misrepresentation by protestant pastors telling their flock this lie. Doesn’t their Bible have the commandment don’t bear false witness against your neighbor or is that cut in the protestant bibles these days as well?