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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Codex Sinaiticus

Codex Sinaiticus stories: 2 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

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

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