[Apologetics] "World's oldest Bible goes online"

[Stephen Korsman]

"World's oldest Bible goes
online"<http://www.americanpapist.com/2008/07/worlds-oldest-bible-goes-online.html>
via AmericanPapist: Not Your Average
Catholic!<http://www.americanpapist.com/blog.html>by Thomas Peters on
7/24/08

Very cool:

The oldest known surviving copy of the New Testament gets the modern touch
Thursday when parts of it go online for the first time.

The British Library plans to begin publishing the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th
century text handwritten in Greek, on its Web site. *The Gospel of Mark and
the Book of Psalms go online Thursday.* The full manuscript is to be online
in a year.

Translations of the Codex Sinaiticus have long been widely available, but
publishing images of the manuscript online will let anyone see pages that,
until now, have been viewed in detail mainly by academia.

As the Web site becomes operational, it will show photographs of each page
of the text, with links to translations in English and German. There will
also be a search function.

"It contains the earliest complete copy of the New Testament," said Scot
McKendrick, the head of Western Manuscripts at the British Library. (CNN
London<http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/24/online.bible/index.html?eref=rss_mostpopular>
)

The Gospel of Mark's grammar is on the simpler side, so it's more accessible
to entry-level Greek scholars.
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