Oldest known Bible goes online...(1,600 years old)

[sonic21]

full article (http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/06/ancient.bible.online/index.html)



LONDON, England (CNN) -- The world's oldest known Christian Bible goes online Monday -- but the 1,600-year-old text doesn't match the one you'll find in churches today.

Discovered in a monastery in the Sinai desert in Egypt more than 160 years ago, the handwritten Codex Sinaiticus includes two books that are not part of the official New Testament and at least seven books that are not in the Old Testament.

The New Testament books are in a different order, and include numerous handwritten corrections -- some made as much as 800 years after the texts were written, according to scholars who worked on the project of putting the Bible online. The changes range from the alteration of a single letter to the insertion of whole sentences.

And some familiar -- very important -- passages are missing, including verses dealing with the resurrection of Jesus, they said.

[Bukefal]

thats would be interesting

[jman3000]

Lies! You can't change the word of God!

[Jesus]

Lies! You can't change the word of God!

word! :tu

[Dr. Gonzo]

uh oh

[mouse]

Was there a bird bone flute near by?...

[ploto]

The Septuagint includes books which many Protestant Christian denominations place in the Apocrypha. Those present in the surviving part of the Septuagint in Codex Sinaiticus are 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, 1 & 4 Maccabees, Wisdom and Sirach.

The number of the books in the New Testament in Codex Sinaiticus is the same as that in modern Bibles in the West, but the order is different. The Letter to the Hebrews is placed after Paul's Second Letter to the Thessalonians, and the Acts of the Apostles between the Pastoral and Catholic Epistles.

The two other early Christian texts are an Epistle by an unknown writer claiming to be the Apostle Barnabas, and 'The Shepherd', written by the early second-century Roman writer, Hermas.

http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/codex/content.aspx

[manufan10]

word! :tu

:lol

[jacobdrj]

Can we merge the 2 threads from the PolitiForum and the Club?

[BacktoBasics]

Wait you mean the oldest know surviving original copy is from the 4th century. Surely they have a copy dating back to say....the year 30.

[BacktoBasics]

This is my favorite line.


The New Testament books are in a different order, and include numerous handwritten corrections -- some made as much as 800 years after the texts were written, according to scholars who worked on the project of putting the Bible online. The changes range from the alteration of a single letter to the insertion of whole sentences.

[z0sa]

Cool story. It's interesting to note that the Europe-based Catholics gladly embraced the Apocrypha some time ago, while America's Bible belt still denies the Apocrypha are God-inspired.