[B-Greek] Codex Sinaiticus to be reconstituted?
William Zeitler
william at faithfulbible.com
Thu Mar 3 12:50:15 EST 2005
Here's a 'babel fish' (http://world.altavista.com/) translation of the
article. (Crude, to put it charitably, but comprehensible):
"The second oldest Bible is to be supposed in the Internet again to develop
virtual combination of the fragments of the Codex Sinaiticus the fragments
of one of the oldest Bibles of the world to be virtually again built up. The
parts of the Codex Sinaiticus in Egypt, Russia, Great Britain and Germany
from the fourth century are to be digitized and made available in the
InterNet, communicated the university library Leipzig on Thursday.
"At the project is St. Katharinen monastery on the peninsula Sinai, which
takes part Russian national library St. Petersburg and the British LIBRARY
London. Oldest received copy of the Codex Sinaiticus in Greek language was
over centuries in the possession of the St. Katharinen monastery on the
peninsula Sinai. It applies beside the Codex Vaticanus as the oldest
received copy of the Bible. 1844 brought the German theologian Constantin of
Tischendorf 43 Pergamentblaetter to Leipzig, where they are kept since that
time.
Tischendorf bought later further sheets, which it bequeathed to the Russian
Zaren Alexander II. for the Russian national library in St. Petersburg from
the monastery. The Soviet Union kept of it only five fragments and sold the
remainder 1933 to the British museum in London. Twelve further fragments
were found according to the data 1975 in the St. Katharinen monastery.
Agreements close the archbishop of the monastery and the libraries involved
want on 9 March in London an agreement to close, with which the virtual
combination of the fragments is to begin. Apart from the Internet
presentation also a printed expenditure for facsimile and an DVD edition are
intended, it were said.
-----Original Message-----
From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Carl W. Conrad
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:29 AM
To: Biblical Greek
Subject: [B-Greek] Codex Sinaiticus to be reconstituted?
Jim West <jwest at highland.net> calls attention to a notice in a German TV
Newsletter (ZDFheute.de) reporting the "virtual" reconstitution of parts of
the Codex Sinaiticus scattered abroad over the world. The project involves
cooperation of the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg, the British
Museum, St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai peninsula. Such details as
have been set forth may be accessed by German readers at:
http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/30/0,3672,2267870,00.html
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
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