Earliest Surviving Bible Published Online

[Chad]

Earliest Surviving Bible Published Online

Nearly 900 pages of the world’s oldest Christian Bible have been digitally photographed and put on the internet for scholars and Christians alike to study.

Written onto pages of animal skin in ancient Greek, the manuscript of the Codex Sinaiticus is 16 centuries old, and has been described as one of the greatest historical treasures in the world.

The earliest surviving incarnation of the Bible was split into various fragments and studied by experts in St Petersburg, Leipzig and London, with a large portion of the Bible kept behind bulletproof glass under low lighting intensity in the vaults of the British Library. However, to make the text more accessible to the general public, the British Library has decided to publish the 1,600 text on the World Wide Web.

The British Library's Head of Western manuscripts, Dr Scot McKendrick told BBC News: “The availability of the virtual manuscript for study by scholars around the world creates opportunities for collaborative research that would not have been possible just a few years ago.”

Dr McKendrick ventured that the manuscript offered a “window into the development of early Christianity,” which shows some of the early steps of the evolution of the work as it was passed from generation to generation. The original text was written on sheets of parchment measuring 40cm by 35cm (15.7in by 13.8in) covering 1,460 pages.

The digitised pages can be seen for the first time online by the general public here, thanks to the hard work and dedication of the British Library.

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What is Codex Sinaiticus?

Codex Sinaiticus, a manuscript of the Christian Bible written in the middle of the fourth century, contains the earliest complete copy of the Christian New Testament. The hand-written text is in Greek. The New Testament appears in the original vernacular language (koine) and the Old Testament in the version, known as the Septuagint, that was adopted by early Greek-speaking Christians. In the Codex, the text of both the Septuagint and the New Testament has been heavily annotated by a series of early correctors.
The significance of Codex Sinaiticus for the reconstruction of the Christian Bible's original text, the history of the Bible and the history of Western book-making is immense.

 

[shipwrecksoul]

What is Codex Sinaiticus?

Almost every bible made after 1900 uses this text, codex, like the Jehovah witness bible the "New world Translation" and the "New International Bible" etc etc.

In this codex it leaves out many verses that uplifts the deity of Christ.

The greatest counterfeit to give homage to the Catholic church!

It was written in Alexandria, by Egyptians. The intellectuals were cranking out this corrupt
manuscript,
n Gods word was there ever anything written good about Alexandria?

The thought for today all :shade:

 

[shipwrecksoul]

"The Codex Sinaiticus has been corrected by so many hands that it affords a most interesting and intricate problem to the palaeographer who wishes to disentangle the various stages by which it has reached its present condition…." (Codex Sinaiticus - New Testament volume; page xvii of the introduction) Pastor David L. Brown

The Minority Texts, codex Sinaiticus, were the work of unbelieving Egyptian scribes who did not accept the Bible as the Word of God or JESUS as the SON of GOD! David B Loughran
Stewarton Bible School, Stewarton, Scotland

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1) Majority Text (Textus Receptus) - originally known as the Received Text, which was compiled between 1514 and 1641. The Majority Text has, since then, been made up of thousands of other Greek manuscripts. These later manuscript discoveries have confirmed the reliability of the Received Text. 2) Minority Text (Alexandrian Text) - is based mainly on just two manuscripts, the Vaticanus (also known as "B") and the Sinaiticus (also known as "Aleph"). These manuscripts not only disagree with the Majority Text, but they disagree with each other!



Dean Burgon of Chichester argued that Sinaiticus and Vaticanus were 'the most scandalously corrupt copies extant' and 'exhibit the most shamefully mutilated texts which are anywhere to be met with.'​

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[jiggyfly]

"The Codex Sinaiticus has been corrected by so many hands that it affords a most interesting and intricate problem to the palaeographer who wishes to disentangle the various stages by which it has reached its present condition…." (Codex Sinaiticus - New Testament volume; page xvii of the introduction) Pastor David L. Brown

The Minority Texts, codex Sinaiticus, were the work of unbelieving Egyptian scribes who did not accept the Bible as the Word of God or JESUS as the SON of GOD! David B Loughran
Stewarton Bible School, Stewarton, Scotland

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1) Majority Text (Textus Receptus) - originally known as the Received Text, which was compiled between 1514 and 1641. The Majority Text has, since then, been made up of thousands of other Greek manuscripts. These later manuscript discoveries have confirmed the reliability of the Received Text. 2) Minority Text (Alexandrian Text) - is based mainly on just two manuscripts, the Vaticanus (also known as "B") and the Sinaiticus (also known as "Aleph"). These manuscripts not only disagree with the Majority Text, but they disagree with each other!



Dean Burgon of Chichester argued that Sinaiticus and Vaticanus were 'the most scandalously corrupt copies extant' and 'exhibit the most shamefully mutilated texts which are anywhere to be met with.'​

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Is the textus receptus complete or are there parts missing?

 

[shipwrecksoul]

Is the textus receptus complete or are there parts missing?

In the above posts we have names like tydale, including Martin Luther Burgeon etc the BEST in the business, scholars preachers pastors in christianity(giants) who refute the Sinaiticus codex in which they only used the Textus Receptus!

Now we have a question that must be answered by jiggfly who asks
Is the textus receptus complete or are there parts missing?
I will let Gods word answer this for you.

Psa 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Psa 12:7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

So if you have two copies one the majority and one the minority that differ as in night and day one must ask themselves
first do they know the Lord to know between truth or error?
second which one lifts up who Jesus Christ is as God or as a Prophet?

This last statement must be said as well. God can use any version to bring a individual to the saving knowledge.
But would one use a real dollar bill or a fake dollar bill to listen to what God has to say.
What did the Lord Truly say to you today? Or
What do you think the Lord said to you today?

 

[jiggyfly]

In the above posts we have names like tydale, including Martin Luther Burgeon etc the BEST in the business, scholars preachers pastors in christianity(giants) who refute the Sinaiticus codex in which they only used the Textus Receptus!

Now we have a question that must be answered by jiggfly who asks
Is the textus receptus complete or are there parts missing?
I will let Gods word answer this for you.

Psa 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Psa 12:7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

So if you have two copies one the majority and one the minority that differ as in night and day one must ask themselves
first do they know the Lord to know between truth or error?
second which one lifts up who Jesus Christ is as God or as a Prophet?

This last statement must be said as well. God can use any version to bring a individual to the saving knowledge.
But would one use a real dollar bill or a fake dollar bill to listen to what God has to say.
What did the Lord Truly say to you today? Or
What do you think the Lord said to you today?

So you don't believe that there were parts of the latin vulgate used to fill in parts missing from the TR?

 

[shipwrecksoul]

Jiggyfly
Why? Don’t you think God preserved his word or should we listen to any word? Do you believe Gods written word or mans, Sinaiticus, written word?
This thread is about the Sinaiticus! Lets keep to the topic.

 

[jiggyfly]

Jiggyfly
Why? Don’t you think God preserved his word or should we listen to any word? Do you believe Gods written word or mans, Sinaiticus, written word?
This thread is about the Sinaiticus! Lets keep to the topic.

OK so quite bringing up the textus receptus. If you want to discuss textus receptus start a new thread.:shade:

 

[shipwrecksoul]

OK so quite bringing up the textus receptus. If you want to discuss textus receptus start a new thread.:shade:

This makes no sense unless you want to keep this thread on the corrupt Sinaiticus sterile! without Gods word. But for you to go and ask deeper questions on the Textus receptus does requires another thread which you may do.
Not mention found codexs that are either corrupt or invalid or Valid in the same category is ludicrous.

 

[jiggyfly]

This makes no sense unless you want to keep this thread on the corrupt Sinaiticus sterile! without Gods word. But for you to go and ask deeper questions on the Textus receptus does requires another thread which you may do.
Not mention found codexs that are either corrupt or invalid or Valid in the same category is ludicrous.

Feel free to start a new thread on textus receptus maybe I will participate. I just hope it don't turn into another ludicrous KJVO thread.