Oldest Bible Manuscript in the World Pieced Together Online

The surviving parts of the Codex Sinaiticus are now available digitally, following an ambitious four year collaboration between institutions in the UK, Germany, Egypt and Russia.

The manuscript is approximately 1600 years old and handwritten in Greek on animal hide. It may be the oldest surviving bound book in the world. Scholars say that it is the earliest complete version of the New Testament.

The various fragments are being joined online. Only a handful of people in world have seen all of the sections. The online collaboration will allow everyone to see and experience all of the sections, seamed together. In some cases, fragments of the same page have been pieced together for the first time.

For people who are not Greek bible scholars, some translations will be offered.

A Huge Discovery and Mystery.

In piecing the document together, researchers discovered a startling discovery that right now, remains an unsolved mystery. At the very beginning of the manuscript — before Book of Genesis — there was something. Scholars don't know what it is.

Take a Look.

You can view the Codex Sinaiticus online at http://www.codex-sinaiticus.net

To celebrate the online collaboration, the British Library is staging an exhibition called From Parchment to Pixel.

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