Oldest Bible Now Online

[Guest Jon]

If anyone is interested:

The world's oldest known Bible has finally been placed online. Not all of it is translated yet.

The story about it is here:

[url="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/06/ancient.bible.online/index.html"]http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/06...line/index.html[/url]

The site where the Bible is located at is here:

[url="http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/"]http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/[/url]

[CatherineM]

I read about this. I got into a fight with someone once that the KJV was the oldest bible. This may surprise people similarly confused.

[LouisvilleFan]

I'm waiting for the Codex Sinaiticus iPhone app.



Actually I'm not, since I don't have an iPhone, nor even it's little sister, iTouch, but I think it would be cool to school the Fundies [i]and[/i] the Traddies with access to a version of the Scriptures that pre-dates what they're reading by "roughly a millenium, give or a century."

Edited July 8, 2009 by LouisvilleFan

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='LouisvilleFan' post='1914352' date='Jul 8 2009, 11:31 AM']I'm waiting for the Codex Sinaiticus iPhone app.



Actually I'm not, since I don't have an iPhone, nor even it's little sister, iTouch, but I think it would be cool to school the Fundies [i]and[/i] the Traddies with access to a version of the Scriptures that pre-dates what they're reading by "roughly a millenium, give or a century." [/quote]

If you aren't aware, the Vulgate edition of the Bible, a translation made around the fourth century (about the same time that the Codex Sinaiticus was copied from earlier manuscripts), is used in the EF. The earliest manuscripts are only a few centuries younger than the translation itself.

Edited July 8, 2009 by Resurrexi

[Apotheoun]

The Sinaiticus codex is one of the oldest collections of the books of the Bible in one manuscript, that said, there are hundreds of 2nd and 3rd century papyrus copies of the Greek New Testament books, and those copies take us back to a time much closer to the original texts.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Apotheoun' post='1914536' date='Jul 8 2009, 04:18 PM']The Sinaiticus codex is one of the oldest collections of the books of the Bible in one manuscript, that said, there are hundreds of 2nd and 3rd century papyrus copies of the Greek New Testament books, and those copies take us back to a time much closer to the original texts.[/quote]

If I recall correctly, isn't it also true that the Codex Vaticanus, a manuscript equally as ancient as the Sinaiticus, is a better manuscript?