Posted on 07/05/2009 9:59:44 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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 of 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".
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Predates the Bede Bible by a few years don’tchaknow! Wish Pastor Scott were alive to read this. I think he may have had copies of the pages though.
The Venerable Bede:
Historian and Doctor of the Church, born 672 or 673; died 735.
Thank you for the excellent link.
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The article says:
Juan Garces, the British Library project curator, said it should be no surprise that the ancient text is not quite the same as the modern one, since the Bible has developed and changed over the years.
“The Bible as an inspirational text has a history,” he told CNN.
Oh, and of course this:
And some familiar — very important — passages are missing, including verses dealing with the resurrection of Jesus, they said.
So Jesus didn’t rise from the dead I guess (so they would have us think)
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How the monks at Mt. Sinai got conned
“It is thought to have survived because the desert air was ideal for preservation and because the monastery, on a Christian island in a Muslim sea, remained untouched, its walls unconquered.”
The walls remained unconquered because Mohammed himself issued an order protecting the monastery. It is preserved there to this day, signed with a hand print because Mo was illiterate.
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