The Codex Sinaiticus is the oldest copy of the Bible that exists today. It is written in Greek and dating from 400 AD A treasure that is now available almost entirely in this web. Digital technology allows you to view high-resolution 800 pages of the codex. Because of their age have not been able to recover all the books of the Bible and only the Old Testament is full.
past 4 years, experts from Britain, Russia, Germany and Egypt have worked to bring the Bible to the Internet. Each of these countries is part of the manuscript. It was discovered in 1800 in the monastery of St. Catherine in the Sinai desert, Egypt, a German theologian. Shortly after the text was taken partly to Leipzig, Germany and part of Russia since Tsar Alexander II paid for the research.
In 1930, Russia decided to sell his part of the manuscript to England, so English is the National Library which has the largest number of pages.
For now, thanks to the Internet, anyone can read it in a resolution unsurpassed anywhere in the world.
SOURCE: Catholic Information Service
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