The website is well worth visiting to find out more.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
The World's Oldest Bible? - online
About 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible, known as the "Codex Sinaiticus" have been put on the internet as part of a scholarship project being undertaken by the British Library, the University Library of Leipzig, the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg and St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai where the manuscript was found in 1844 - well preserved due to the extremely dry climate. The 1,600 year old manuscript offers a window on early Christianity and some interesting differences to the Bible we use today.