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British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online
Peace Corps Library writes "BBC reports that about 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible, the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, have been recovered and put on the Internet. 'The Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world's greatest written treasures,' says Dr. Scot McKendrick, head of Western manuscripts at the British Library. 'This 1,600-year-old manuscript offers a window into the development of early Christianity and first-hand evidence of how the text of the Bible was transmitted from generation to generation.' The New Testament of the Codex Sinaiticus appears in Koine Greek, the original vernacular language, and the Old Testament in the version, known as the Septuagint, that was adopted by early Greek-speaking Christians. For 1,500 years, the Codex Sinaiticus lay undisturbed in a Sinai monastery until it was found in 1844 and split between Egypt, Russia, Germany, and Britain. It is thought to have survived because the desert air was ideal for preservation and because the monastery, on a Christian island in a Muslim sea, remained untouched, its walls unconquered. The British Library is marking the online launch of the manuscript with an exhibition which includes a range of historic items and artifacts linked to the document. '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.'"
But is it wiki'd so that people can make corrections to it?
1 In the begining was the psot. And it was frist.
2 And yea, I faileth it.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I'm really interested to see what different translators come up with. Now that it's been made available, there is going to be a wonderful opportunity to compare translations and interpretations from a much more 'original' source.
Though, I have this nagging feeling that "And it was Good" might also be interpreted as "Sorry for the inconvenience."
Out of modpoints but really liked a post? 1BDkF6TtmmeZ3yqXbz9yhdYVqRYnwFoXDj
..... and the old priest looked at the original copy, and came out crying.
When asked why, he looked at the young novice and said "the word is CELEBRATE not CELIBATE"
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
Disney? Is that you?
How do you calculate "life of author" if the author exists outside of time? Should we just assume that the clock starts ticking in 1882?
1. Author: God
2. Lifespan: Eternal
3. Copyright: Eternity + 50 years
4. ???
5. Profit!
Paul wrote NO Gospel.
OK. I absolutely have to correct this. There were four gospels, one of them Paul's. First came John, then Paul, then George, and finally Ringo.
Oh, crap... I may be mixing theology here... OK fine. His story is an epistle - I stand corrected.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
I would think that the Bono Act would have ensured that this work was still under copyright.
"I guess the moral of the story is, don't paint your airship with rocket fuel." -- Addison Bain
scholars have discovered that this bible bleeds when it rains
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Thanks for bringing that up.
rewriting history since 2109
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, "First Post!".
re: Paul.
Changing sides is not conversion - merely allegiance or profession and expression.
Conversion is the changing of one's fundamental nature. It is repentance from one's self.
Paul went on to do with a pen that which he had formerly done with a sword, now in service of his former nemesis. In name, he changed but a letter, showing both his great attachment to small material indicators and his basic re-confirmation of the identity prior to Damascus.
No doubt he had a powerful experience - possibly even of God. But he could not reject himself - and thereby brought Paul to religion - not religion to Paul.
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
I can't read either form of archaic Greek, you insensitive clod!