Posted on 06/19/2005 9:37:38 AM PDT by NYer
PING to the Orthodox Christians. An article about one of your Monasteries.... the oldest one in the world!!
The commies tried IN VAIN... to destroy the Russian Orthodox Church and the Baptists too.
The fact that the Russian Church is now able to help save some of the earliest Greek texts and others as well... THAT Means to me... the commies in Russia have FAILED!!!
And, I THANK GOD FOR THAT!!
Okay, now I understand. I thought you were trying to imply that Stalin and the other commies DID NOT sell off priceless religious artwork.
Possible but we should never look down our noses and underestimate the ingenuity of ancient peoples.
Will this include the Codex Sinaiticus?
On a lighter note, saw a cartoon once in which the pyramids were dropped from UFO's! However, the ancient peoples had ingenuity us modern folk are still trying to comprehend.
PING!!!!!
Anyway, I was reading in the link to the article thaat evidentally the Monastery used to be under the patronage to the Czars of Russia. After the Turks took Constantinope in the 15th century, the Russians stepped in sometime after that to help the monks.
Then, when the commies murdered the Czar and his family and tried to destroy the Russian Church, the Greeks were fully in charge again .
At least, that is what I gather from info on the link and with a little added info from my set of VERY OLD Encyclopedia Brittanica( I am so old I still use them, LOL!).
Related article posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1384289/posts
with this commentary:
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The manuscript arrived in Russia unbound, and was rebound in the UK in 1935. Although originally in one very large volume, it is now in two: the Old Testament is kept in the vaults and the New Testament is on permanent show in the library’s Ritblat Gallery, currently open at the concluding verses of St John. On this page, ultraviolet light has recently revealed that the last verse was originally omitted, and a concluding design was later blotted out and the missing words added.
Although a very scarce facsimile was published in Oxford in 1911-22, its quality is unsatisfactory for a detailed examination of the text.
The codex was written by three scribes, and the use of computer images that reveal details invisible to the naked eye may well make it possible to determine who made the corrections. Some are contemporary with the original manuscript, while others are later. The texts will be examined in depth. For instance, in Codex Sinaiticus the Gospel of St Mark ends at chapter 16, verse 8, with the discovery that Christ’s tomb was empty, although later Bibles have another 12 verses on the Resurrection. The study may well transform our understanding of the development of early Biblical texts. "
RE: "The Nephilim and the Pyramid of the Apocalypse "
Sounds like Zecharia Sitchin stuff. Have you read any of his books...and if so, how does Heron compare?
Seems like I read something similar here as well. There were threads about the Oxyrhynchus papyri, the Herculanaeum scrolls, and some others. But this does indeed look familiar. If you know the link, please drop me a FReemail. Thanks.
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