[B-Greek] Fragment from world's oldest Bible found hidden in Egyptian monastery - Africa, World - The Independent

Leonard Isaksson leonard.i at cheqnet.net
Fri Dec 25 19:21:06 EST 2009


Thanks for the assistance, George.   This has covered quite a few 
mails, sorry about that, but it was fun to read about.

Yes, the article is talking about how Sinaiticus is the oldest (rather) 
complete manuscript of the Bible.  As the article says, the manuscript 
contains about one half of the OT, as you report.  Now it is one or two 
verses closer to being complete:).

I have just found the site csntm.org to-day.  Center for the study of 
New Testament Manuscripts.  There seem to be quite a few manuscript 
'finds' that have been photographed.

Leonard Isaksson

On Dec 25, 2009, at 6:01 PM, George F Somsel wrote:

> It didn't make it.   Here's one that should
>
> http://tinyurl.com/meaacn
>  
> BTW:  It's not the world's olded manuscript of the bible.  That plum 
> goes to a small papyrus fragment of the Gospel according to John found 
> at Oxyrhynchus dating to the early 2nd century.  א is the most 
> complete early manuscript, but it isn't complete either as this 
> fragment shows (Note that א contains about ½ of the OT).
>
> george
> gfsomsel
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> From: Leonard Isaksson <leonard.i at cheqnet.net>
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> Sent: Fri, December 25, 2009 4:15:30 PM
> Subject: [B-Greek] Fragment from world's oldest Bible found hidden in 
> Egyptian monastery - Africa, World - The Independent
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> Here we go, now you folks can read this yourselves, I hope it all gets 
> through.
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> <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/fragment-from-worlds-
> oldest-bible-found-hidden-in-egyptian-monastery-1780274.html>
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