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.
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”.
For 1,500 years, the Codex Sinaiticus lay undisturbed in a Sinai monastery until it was found in 1844 and split between Egypt, Russia, Germany and Britain.
www.codexsinaiticus.org
Historic Bible pages put online
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The information is not the same on every website .. gnews speaks of a 900 pages ..written on animal skin .. 16 centuries old … not a small difference I’d say … And the link above does not work, at least not here …
Must be interesting .. for those into the field to translate those very old pages .. The fact that it is very old written stuff makes it interesting to me, not the fact that it is the bible (?) .. The bible does not have a special meaning to me, that’s why. Is just another ‘book’. Who knows what people will start to see in the very far future in writings from our time … how they will grin above scientific stuff … technology etc etc … No doubt about that in fact.
We write on .. erm … nothing right now … aint that amazing …
I find it quite an amusing thought to burry something written in your own garden or such … who knows in what time they will digg it out of there. I myself would not mind finding such a thing in my garden … even it if it not 1500 years old and not written on animal skin or such .. but just on paper in old handwriting … doesn’t need to be that old actually .. a little bit old though …
The first page reads: “All events and characters portrayed in this story are entirely fictitious. Any resemblance to those either dead or alive is purely coincidental…” etc…