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Codex Sinaiticus

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  • 10-07-2009 6:29pm
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    hiorta
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    The 'oldest' bible has been placed online for independent study.
    There are additions, omissions and alterations, some carried out 800 years later, of material that is not to be found in todays 'word of god' books, including the absence of the 'resurrection of a Jesus' on which Christianity is founded.


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8135415.stm


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    Nerin
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    awesome!
    thanks for the post :)


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    JimiTime
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    hiorta wrote: »
    The 'oldest' bible has been placed online for independent study.
    There are additions, omissions and alterations, some carried out 800 years later, of material that is not to be found in todays 'word of god' books, including the absence of the 'resurrection of a Jesus' on which Christianity is founded.


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8135415.stm

    Just wondering where you got this info? According to the website, its all dated to around the mid 4th Century. It DOES include the resurrection etc. Just wondering what you are talking about above?


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    philologos
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    JimiTime wrote: »
    Just wondering where you got this info? According to the website, its all dated to around the mid 4th Century. It DOES include the resurrection etc. Just wondering what you are talking about above?

    It's the earliest Biblical text we have. As for not including the Resurrection, that isn't the case. The Resurrection is in the text, but some post-resurrection appearances are not:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus

    I wonder why the OP didn't post this in the Christianity forum.


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    Nerin
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    Jakkass wrote: »


    I wonder why the OP didn't post this in the Christianity forum.

    Hardly relevant to the topic,stay on course please.

    Wikipedia always makes me nervous with theological studies,any links to other sites? (Is there still that awesome online vatican library?)


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    Doctor DooM
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    OP would you have a link to where these major changes are?

    According to the website itself, the main thing of interest is the order of the texts, with a side sprinkling of changed texts.

    Of course the frustrating thing being the interpretation of those texts, as always!


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    PDN
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    hiorta wrote: »
    The 'oldest' bible has been placed online for independent study.
    There are additions, omissions and alterations, some carried out 800 years later, of material that is not to be found in todays 'word of god' books, including the absence of the 'resurrection of a Jesus' on which Christianity is founded.


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8135415.stm

    To those unfamiliar with the world of textual criticism the 'additions, omissions and alterations' sound impressive. In fact these occur with all ancient manuscripts. Most of them are simply a missing accent on a word or a variation in spelling.

    And, sorry to disappoint any conspiracy theorists, but the resurrection of Jesus is most certainly not absent from the Codex.

    Codex Sinaiticus isn't actually the 'oldest Bible'. We have older copies of all, or part of, all the biblical books. It is the oldest book in which all of them are contained together - hardly suprising since earlier copies were kept as individual scrolls rather than a codex (book).

    Codex Sinaiticus is one of the ancient sources that textual critics use to reconstruct as accurately as possible the original text of the Bible. It is extremely important to biblical scholars and it's use is reflected in most modern Bible translations that are used in churches today.


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