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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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British Library stories: 5 news summaries

(Newser) - The fragile Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest surviving Christian Bible, has been hidden in scholarly collections for decades, but today the British Library has launched a new site to let online surfers peruse the 1600-year-old document. The ancient text was discovered in the 19th century, and researchers suspect it survived due... More »

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Christianity • Bible • British Library • online learning • Codex Sinaiticus • library • manuscript

Millionaire's Thievery Ruins Priceless Books

Iranian millionaire sliced pages from valuable volumes

Nov 21, 08 2:30 PM CST
(Newser) - An Iranian scholar and millionaire sliced pages from extremely rare volumes at the British Library, some dating back to the 16th century, to replace missing sections in his own book collection, reports the Independent. Farhad Hakimzadeh, who pleaded guilty to theft and faces prison time, removed pages from a... More »

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crime • theft • grand theft • British Library • rare books • Farhad Hakimzadeh

 Porn Claim Riles Kafka Scholars  

Experts have uneasy dreams about author's proclivities

Aug 15, 08 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Literary circles are in an uproar over a new biography of Franz Kafka that says the existentialist author had a penchant for porn, the Guardian reports. Kafka expert James Hawes, who says he unearthed some of the not-exactly-mainstream magazines the author enjoyed, makes the claim in a new book and... More »

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pornography • biography • British Library • anti-Semitism • Franz Kafka • literary criticism • Heinrich Heine • Bodleian • Rainer Stach • Klaus Wagenbach

World's Oldest Bible Makes Web Debut Thursday

German university, British Library compile 390 pages of 4th-century parchment

Jul 21, 08 5:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - The world's oldest nearly intact Bible—a fourth-century manuscript written in ancient Greek—will be published online later this week, Deutsche Welle reports. The Codex Sinaiticus, rediscovered in a Sinai Peninsula monastery in 1844, contains half the Jewish Old Testamant and most of the Christian New Testament. The University of... More »

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religion • Bible • book • British Library • University of Leipzig • New Testament • Codex Sinaiticus • Old Testament • ebooks

British Library Acquires Harold Pinter Archive

$2.2M keeps Nobel laureate's papers
in the country

Dec 12, 07 2:27 PM CST
(Newser) - The British Library has bought the papers of Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning playwright, paying more than $2.2 million for 150 boxes of material, writes the Times of London. After the purchase of several British authors' archives by American universities, Pinter committed himself to finding a home in his... More »

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United Kingdom • literature • Nobel Prize • Harold Pinter • The Caretaker • Samuel Beckett • British Library

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