Top 10 Surprising Facts About the World's Oldest Bible
An online version of the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus reveals the many ways in which the Bible has evolved over the centuries
Nearly 800 of the book's original 1,460 pages survived the centuries intact, including a complete New Testament and about half the Old Testament and Apocrypha (the additional Greek books considered canonical by Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox). After German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf discovered pages from Sinaiticus at St. Catherine's monastery in Egypt in 1844, many of the handwritten leaves of parchment made their way to institutions in Britain, Germany and Russia, making examination of the manuscript difficult. A collaborative effort, started in 2005, has virtually reunited Sinaiticus' separated parts.
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