Fourth century Greek Bible goes online
Published Date:
22 July 2008
SEVENTEEN centuries after it was written, the Codex Sinaiticus – one of the world's oldest copies of the Bible – catches up with the digital age this week.
Written in the fourth century and discovered in Egypt in the 19th, it will enter cyberpsace on Thursday, courtesy of the Leipzig University library in Germany.
The Codex Sinaiticus is one of the two most ancient copies of the entire Bible in Greek. The other is called the Codex Vaticanus.
Part of the manuscript was uncovered by a German scholar in St Catherine's monastery in the Sinai desert in Victorian times.
Much of it, written on 350 pages of vellum, ended up in St Petersburg and in the 1930s most was then sold by Stalin to the British Museum in London.
The full article contains 133 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
21 July 2008 10:26 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
