Pages of Earliest Surviving Bible Put Online [BBC]

[Catholic_Press]

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.

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There are new opportunities for scholars, experts say

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”.

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[Dandelion_Wine]

Interesting stuff.

I first heard of it on CNN where of course it was sensationalized. cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/06/ancient.bible.online/index.html

the handwritten Codex Sinaiticus includes two books that are not part of the official New Testament and at least seven books that are not in the Old Testament.

{my emphasis} Unless you’re Catholic of course.

And some familiar – very important – passages are missing, including verses dealing with the resurrection of Jesus, they said.
Juan Garces, the British Library project curator, said it should be no surprise that the ancient text is not quite the same as the modern one, since the Bible has developed and changed over the years.