Jul 06 2009

Sinaiticus gets Social Networked

Category: Religious NewsPolycarp @ 8:53 am

The BBC News is reporting that after 1600 years, the Codex Sinaiticus has it’s own website:

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”.

The website provides pictures, transcription and (perhaps) translation.

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