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Article: Bible goes high tech: ; Oldest Christian Bible digitized; Parchment pages of book were housed in four locations across world
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- Charleston Daily Mail
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- July 7, 2009
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LONDON - The surviving pages of the world's oldest Christian
Bible have been reunited - digitally.
The early work known as the Codex Sinaiticus has been housed in
four separate locations across the world for more than 150 years.
Starting Monday, it became available for perusal on the Web at
www.codexsinaiticus.org so scholars and other readers can get a
closer look at what the British Library calls a "unique treasure."
Scot McKendrick, head of Western manuscripts at the British
Library, said the book "offers a window into the development of
early Christianity and firsthand evidence of how the text of the
Bible was transmitted from generation to generation."
The 4th-century book, written in ...