World's Oldest Bible at British Museum

Paidion · Post by **Paidion** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 4:06 pm

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/a ... ish-museum

dizerner · Post by **dizerner** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 5:43 pm

and to think it was found in the trash

Paidion · Post by **Paidion** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 6:29 pm

That is a common myth, but I don't think it's true. This story seems to have been started by some King James Only folks who wanted to discredit Sinaiticus. Check out this article:

https://dorightchristians.wordpress.com ... -nonsense/

dizerner · Post by **dizerner** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 6:42 pm

The article makes some good points. From "Tischendorf’s own testimony" we read:

Scarcely had he entered the room when, resuming our former subject of conversation, he said, “And I too have read a Septuagint, i. e., a copy of the Greek translation made by the Seventy;” and so saying, he took down from the corner of the room a bulky kind of volume wrapped up in a red cloth, and laid it before me. I unrolled the cover, and discovered, to my great surprise, not only those very fragments which, fifteen years before, I had taken out of the basket, but also other parts of the Old Testament, the New Testament complete, and in addition, the Epistle of Barnabas and a part of the Pastor of Hermas.

Seems like the article is justified in concluding:

"Thus we have clear and convincing evidence that the Codex was FIRST discovered in a basket, and that basket was used to reserve fodder for kindling."

Paidion · Post by **Paidion** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 8:36 pm

Yet, it seems to me that a basket of old parchments differs from a trash can.

Singalphile · Post by **Singalphile** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 10:22 pm

Fascinating. I didn't even know (or I forgot that) there was a whole NT that old. It would be fascinating to have a record of the copyists/proof-readers/editors and their process.

Paidion · Post by **Paidion** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 10:56 am

Here's a photo in which you can see the Greek characters more clearly:

http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/img/C ... n_full.jpg

Paidion · Post by **Paidion** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 12:13 pm

This document contains, in pdf format, photocopies of the entire New Testament portion of codex sinaiticus:

http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/0 ... 29,_GR.pdf

Pardon me, this link takes you to Codex Vaticanus—not Codex Sinaiticus.

dizerner · Post by **dizerner** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 7:03 pm

or get a handy facsimile for only 649... 99...

http://www.christianbook.com/codex-sina ... /pd/565775

Paidion · Post by **Paidion** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 7:56 pm

I wonder why anyone would pay $649.99 for a facsimile? Just for the prestige of owning one?

Sorry, I gave a link to codex Vaticanus rather than codex Sinaiticus.

Here is an English translation of Codex Sinaiticus New Testament in pdf format:

http://www.jacksonsnyder.com/yah/manusc ... iticus.pdf

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