Earliest Surviving Bible Published Online
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World’s oldest Bible published for the first time on the internet by British Library.
Nearly 900 pages of the world’s oldest Christian Bible have been digitally photographed and put on the internet for scholars and Christians alike to study.
Written onto pages of animal skin in ancient Greek, the manuscript of the Codex Sinaiticus is 16 centuries old, and has been described as one of the greatest historical treasures in the world.
The earliest surviving incarnation of the Bible was split into various fragments and studied by experts in St Petersburg, Leipzig and London, with a large portion of the Bible kept behind bulletproof glass under low lighting intensity in the vaults of the British Library. However, to make the text more accessible to the general public, the British Library has decided to publish the 1,600 text on the World Wide Web.
The British Library’s Head of Western manuscripts, Dr Scot McKendrick told BBC News: “The availability of the virtual manuscript for study by scholars around the world creates opportunities for collaborative research that would not have been possible just a few years ago.”
Dr McKendrick ventured that the manuscript offered a “window into the development of early Christianity,” which shows some of the early steps of the evolution of the work as it was passed from generation to generation. The original text was written on sheets of parchment measuring 40cm by 35cm (15.7in by 13.8in) covering 1,460 pages.
The digitised pages can be seen for the first time online by the general public here, thanks to the hard work and dedication of the British Library.
Diva diabolique is just like a spell book, it’s just a book like the Necronomicon.
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An angel touched the water in the Pool of Bethesda.
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