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World's Oldest Bible Gets Digitized

by Kendra Cunningham on July 7, 2009 at 09:29 AM


The world's oldest Bible, The Codex Sinaiticus, written on parchment leaves during the fourth century, has been made available for free to the public for the first time. The British Library, one of the many collaborators involved in putting the artifact on the Web, has already posted The Book of Psalms and St. Mark's Gospel online, and now more than 800 pages of the original 1,460 book are available on the Internet, according to the Telegraph.

Already a four-year collaboration between universities, libraries, and monasteries, the Codex Sinaiticus reveals different versions of scriptures that vary in later editions of the Holy Book. By making the text readily available online, the project hopes to unite scholars around the world to study the original untranslated Greek that has, for years, been scattered across the globe.

According to Professor David Parker from the University of Birmingham's Department of Theology, this is the first time this version has ever been published. He told the Telegraph, "The digital images of the virtual manuscript show the beauty of the original and readers are even able to see the difference in handwriting between the different scribes who copied the text."

The full-text is available at Codex-Sinaiticus.net. [From Telegraph]

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