{"id":820,"date":"2008-07-22T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T16:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2008\/07\/fourthcentury-bible-to-go-onli.php"},"modified":"2008-07-22T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T16:24:11","slug":"fourthcentury-bible-to-go-onli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2008\/07\/fourthcentury-bible-to-go-onli","title":{"rendered":"Fourth-Century Bible to Go Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Al Webb<br \/>\nReligion News Service<\/strong><br \/>\nLondon &#8211; The Codex Sinaiticus, thought to be one of the world&#8217;s oldest Bibles, is going online this week in a project led by the British Library to reconnect all its 1,600-year-old parts that are spread across Europe and Egypt&#8217;s Sinai desert.<br \/>\nA preview of the manuscript, which dates from the 4th century and includes what&#8217;s believed to be the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, will be available free Thursday (July 24) at www.codex-sinaiticus.net, the library said.<br \/>\nThe Codex is a &#8220;unique treasure&#8221; that &#8220;only a few people have ever had the opportunity to see more than a couple of pages,&#8221; says Scot McKendrick, the British Library&#8217;s head of Western manuscripts.<br \/>\nUntil now, anyone lucky enough to get a first-hand peek at the ancient book would have to approach the British Library &#8220;on bended knee,&#8221; Oxford University scholar Christopher Tuckett told journalists.<br \/>\nEven then, they would be limited to only two pages at a time.<br \/>\n&#8220;To have it available just at the click of a button is fantastic,&#8221; Tuckett added.<br \/>\nThe project is aimed at bringing together in digital form all the pages of the Codex Sinaiticus that are presently kept in Leipzig, Germany; St. Petersburg, Russia; St. Catherine&#8217;s Monastery in Egypt&#8217;s Sinai; and the 347 vellum pages that the British Library bought from Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in 1933.<br \/>\nLeipzig library curator Ulrich Johannes Schneider told France&#8217;s AFP news agency that Thursday&#8217;s preview would include more than 100 pages, 67 of them from the British collection and including the Codex&#8217;s complete Book of Psalms and parts of the Gospel of Mark.<br \/>\nAnother part of the manuscript is scheduled to go online in November. By next July, all 800-odd existing pages in handwritten Greek, and more than 40 fragments, are expected to be online, complete with transcriptions, translations and search functions.<br \/>\n<em>Copyright 2008 Religion News Service.  All rights reserved.  No part of this transmission may be distributed or reproduced without written permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Al Webb Religion News Service London &#8211; The Codex Sinaiticus, thought to be one of the world&#8217;s oldest Bibles, is going online this week in a project led by the British Library to reconnect all its 1,600-year-old parts that are spread across Europe and Egypt&#8217;s Sinai desert. 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