Historic Bible pages put online (BBC)The BBC piece is good but there are some more details in this Reuters article. Background here - follow the link at the bottom of the post. To celebrate the event, the British Library is holding a conference on Codex Sinaiticus today and tomorrow.
About 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible have been recovered and put on the internet.
Visitors to the website www.codexsinaiticus.org can now see images of more than half the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus manuscript.
Fragments of the 4th Century document - written in Greek on parchment leaves - have been worked on by institutions in the UK, Germany, Egypt and Russia.
Experts say it is "a window into the development of early Christianity".
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Monday, July 06, 2009
THE CODEX SINAITICUS has gone online today: