Which CNN International correspondent wrote an article entitled “Oldest Known Bible Goes Online”?
Oldest known Bible goes online By Richard Allen Greene CNN LONDON, England (CNN) — The world’s oldest known Christian Bible goes online Monday — but the 1,600-year-old text doesn’t match the one you’ll find in churches today. Discovered in a monastery in the Sinai desert in Egypt more than 160 years ago, the handwritten Codex Sinaiticus includes two books that are not part of the official New Testament and at least seven books that are not in the Old Testament. The New Testament books are in a different order, and include numerous handwritten corrections — some made as much as 800 years after the texts were written, according to scholars who worked on the project of putting the Bible online. The changes range from the alteration of a single letter to the insertion of whole sentences. And some familiar — very important — passages are missing, including verses dealing with the resurrection of Jesus, they said. Juan Garces, the British Library project curator, said it should be no su
LONDON, England (CNN) — The world’s oldest known Christian Bible goes online Monday — but the 1,600-year-old text doesn’t match the one you’ll find in churches today. The Codex also includes much of the Old Testament adopted by early Greek-speaking Christians. The British government bought most of the pages of the ancient manuscript in 1933. Discovered in a monastery in the Sinai desert in Egypt more than 160 years ago, the handwritten Codex Sinaiticus includes two books that are not part of the official New Testament and at least seven books that are not in the Old Testament. The New Testament books are in a different order, and include numerous handwritten corrections — some made as much as 800 years after the texts were written, according to scholars who worked on the project of putting the Bible online. The changes range from the alteration of a single letter to the insertion of whole sentences. And some familiar — very important — passages are missing, including verses dealin
Greene reported that the text of the said Bible is different than what we see in our Bibles, and that it was discovered in a monastery in the Sinai desert in Egypt more than 160 years ago. The reason why the Bible will be put online is for people to be able to investigate for themselves the content of the historical document. The link to the article where I read about this news is below: Sources: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/06/ancient.bible.
