[BlackVeil]

Ancient document in modern times.

[martin_fierro]

Real Old Stuff Ping.

[msnimje]

I often think about Scribes hunched over copying manuscripts all day when I make Xerox copies. I can't wait to see this when it is available.

[BlackVeil]

A picture of the Book of Esther, in the manuscript.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

believed originally to have been one of 50 copies of the scriptures commissioned by Roman Emperor Constantine after he converted to Christianity.

The above is almost certainly erroneous. Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Empire, but remained a 'pagan' himself, until very shortly before his death, when he conveniently 'converted'.

I suspect he was a hypocritical manipulator of the masses, but perhaps he simply didn't want to be dictated to by Church authorities during his worldly reign.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Martin. Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

Not sure, but I think this particular codex is one found in an ancient wasteparchment basket outside the monastery on Mt Sinai.

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[WKB]

Just wondering:

Dan. 12:4 (KJV)
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

[BykrBayb]

I thought this might interest you.

[k2blader]

Wow bump.

[Straight Vermonter]

the Septuagint, which includes books now regarded as apocrypha.

Except, of course, to more than 1 billion Roman and Eastern Orthodox Catholics.

[rogue yam]

The Bible, which is currently in the British Library in London, dates from the 4th Century.

Stuff like this makes me love the stupid limeys.

[NYer]

The Codex Sinaiticus contains the whole of the Christian Bible; specifically, it has the oldest complete copy of the New Testament, as well as the Greek Old Testament, known as the Septuagint, which includes books now regarded as apocrypha.

A Greek manuscript of the Old and New Testaments, of the greatest antiquity and value; found on Mount Sinai, in St. Catherine's Monastery, by Constantine Tischendorf.
Codex Sinaiticus

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[G Larry]

>which includes books now regarded as apocrypha<

...by protestants, because Martin Luther found them inconvenient.