The surviving parts of the world’s oldest Christian Bible were 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 the Four Evangelists: 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.
Read our full story here. And consult the Codex here.
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Ironic that hundreds of thousands if not millions of people have been slaughtered and tortured over the last 2000 years over interpretations of the bible. The release of this information (1,600 years after it was written) confirms that the bible is simply another work of fiction.
The sad part is that even today people are still being killed and tortured in the name of a “divine being”. Imagine if one day the human race could be liberated from its fear of death and the need to believe in some religious cult of a divine being. Maybe one day belief in reason and science will trump superstition and faith and true peace will reign on earth.
- Posted by John Lennonalot of prominent advocates of your philosophy,did not have same conviction while on their deathbeds,their proclamation at the end was not made with the confidence that they had proclaimed it though out their lives.but there again john lennon,we have a choice and to some of us this choice to believe gives us more joy than words can describe.
- Posted by brian leeHmm, this personality John Lennon sounds similar to the john lennon who had left with a gun shot who had also made anti-christian remarks. Why? why? why? you want to imagine death, just stay there in H***
- Posted by PetrusMJ