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July 7, 2009

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Codex Sinaiticus - Historic Bible Pages Is Online

"About 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible have been recovered and put on the internet. Visitors to the website www.codexsinaiticus.org can now see images of more than half the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus manuscript.

Fragments of the 4th Century document - written in Greek on parchment leaves - have been worked on by institutions in the UK, Germany, Egypt and Russia." It provides "a window into the development of early Christianity". -- From BBC News Online,

A Codex Sinaiticus link has been added to the Library's Internet Humanities Resources page.


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