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By: Resource Journal: July 15, 2009

Resource Journal: July 15, 2009 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:47:32 +0000

[...] The world’s oldest Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus (which contains the entirety of the New Testament, …. You can see images of each of the 400 large leaves of prepared animal skin, along with the text and translation, “digitally reunited in a project involving groups from Britain, Germany, Russia and Egypt.” The Codex Sinaiticus was created in the 4th century in Greek. [...]

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Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:24:19 +0000

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By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:44:46 +0000

World’s Oldest Bible, Now Available on Your Laptop

Science and religion may not have the smoothest relationship, but one thing the churchly crowd can hand to technology is its propensity for making religious texts available to the masses. Including, now, the world’s oldest Bible. The Codex Sinaiticus…

By: Romeo Vitelli

Romeo Vitelli — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:14:18 +0000

“Yawn. So what. There are earlier works of fiction than that one.”

True, but none of them got the rave reviews that the Bible did.

By: NewEnglandBob

NewEnglandBob — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:25:01 +0000

Yawn. So what. There are earlier works of fiction than that one.

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Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:59:43 +0000

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By: Scott Belyea

Scott Belyea — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:52:17 +0000

“The Codex Sinaiticus, which before could only be read on leaves of animal skin,…”

Well … no.

It’s easy enough to find out that the majority of it (all that was known at the time) was published in facsimile under the sponsorship of Tsar Alexander II in the mid-1800’s. I haven’t searched out info on the more recently-discovered loose pages and fragments, but I’d be surprised if they could have “only be read on leaves of animal skin” prior to digitization.