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World's Oldest Bible Going Online
99luftballon writes "The British Museum is putting online the remaining fragments of the world's oldest Bible. The Codex Sinaiticus dates to the fourth century BCE and was discovered in the 19th century. Very few people have seen it due to its fragile state — that and the fact that parts of it are in collections scattered across the globe. It'll give scholars and those interested their first chance to take a look. However, I've got a feeling that some people won't be happy to see it online, since it makes no mention of the resurrection, which is a central part of Christian belief."On Thursday the Book of Psalms and the Gospel According to Mark will go live at the Codex Sinaiticus site. The plan is to have all the material up, with translations and commentaries, a year from now.
2000 - 1600 (from the site) is NOT 2400 years!
It should be 400 CE (or AD, if you've not caught up with the current usage).
Handwritten in Greek more than 1,600 years ago
isn't that 4 AD, not 4 BCE!?
methinks someone made a mistake in the summary...
According to the article, the text was "Handwritten in Greek more than 1,600 years ago". 1600+ years ago would be around 400 AD (or CE, for you revisionist folks, though the numbering is the same). This is NOT before the Common Era. The summary is off by eight centuries (otherwise it would make perfect sense that this text did not contain anything about the Resurrection, considering it was 400 years before Christ! :-p)