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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530346,00.html#ixzz2PRgRJjN6

As it survives today, Codex Sinaiticus comprises just over 400 large leaves of prepared animal skin, each of which measures 15 inches by 13.5 inches (380 millimeters by 345 millimeters). It is the oldest book that contains a complete New Testament and is only missing parts of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha.

The 4th-century book, written in Greek, has been digitally reunited in a project involving groups from Britain, Germany, Russia and Egypt, which each possessed parts of the 1,600-year-old manuscript.

They worked together to publish new research into the history of the Codex and transcribed 650,000 words over a four-year period.

The Codex was both a key Christian text and “a landmark in the history of the book, as it is arguably the oldest large-bound book to have survived,” McKendrick said.....

8 posted on 04/03/2013 4:35:31 PM PDT by Texas Fossil

To: Texas Fossil

Sinaiticus has an older brother. Codex Vaticanus. :)

11 posted on 04/03/2013 4:42:16 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)

To: Texas Fossil

Interesting. An electronic copy should be available, but where?

25 posted on 04/03/2013 6:06:46 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (3% of the population perpetrates >50% of homicides...but gun control advocates blame metal boxes.)

To: Texas Fossil

32 posted on 04/03/2013 6:29:27 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)

To: Texas Fossil

I think the bible source text predates copyright laws.

Translations of it; however; are the PROPERTY of the TRANSLATORS.

50 posted on 04/03/2013 7:06:42 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

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