"The Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world's greatest written treasures," said Scot McKendrick, head of Western manuscripts at the British Library.
The texts include numerous revisions, additions and corrections made during its evolution down through the ages.
SHOOT: I like that...use of the word 'evolution' to describe how the Bible came into being. I believe the hocus pocus belief that Earth and everything else was created in a SHAZAM moment implies, subconsciously', that the bible was created in the same way. And ironically, explains why we think there will be one cataclysmic moment when everything ends. How limited and unimaginative of our beliefs and ideas.
LONDON (Reuters) -
The surviving parts of the world's oldest Christian bible will be reunited online on Monday, generating excitement among biblical scholars still striving to unlock its mysteries.
The Codex Sinaiticus was hand written by four scribes in Greek on animal hide, known as vellum, in the mid-fourth century around the time of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great who embraced Christianity.
Not all of it has withstood the ravages of time, but the pages that have include the whole of the New Testament and the earliest surviving copy of the Gospels written at different times after Christ's death by four of the Apostles: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
The bible's remaining 800 pages and fragments -- it was originally some 1400 pages long -- also contain half of a copy of the Old Testament. The other half has been lost.
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