Religion: July 2009 Archives

World's oldest Christian Bible digitized

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From the Associated Press:
LONDON -- The surviving pages of the world's oldest Christian Bible have been reunited -- digitally.

The early work known as the Codex Sinaiticus has been housed in four separate locations across the world for more than 150 years. But starting Monday, it became available for perusal on the Web at www.codexsinaiticus.org so scholars and other readers can get a closer look at what the British Library calls a "unique treasure."

"(The book) offers a window into the development of early Christianity and firsthand evidence of how the text of the Bible was transmitted from generation to generation," said Scot McKendrick, head of Western manuscripts at the British Library.

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