Fourth-century Christian Bible now available online to the public
The fourth-century manuscript of the Christian Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus, was made available online to the public on Monday. It contains the earliest complete copy of the New Testament. However, due to damage and lost pages, it contains half of the Greek translation of the Old Testament, Septuagint. There are other books within the codex that are not part of the traditional Bible, Epistle of Barbabas and the Shepherd of Hermas, available to the public. Professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU said that the inclusion of the additional books that are not in our current Bible demonstrates that early Christians did not have a closed canon. Some Christians felt they were important to keep, but later Christians did not think they were authentic and did not, therefore, include them in their canons. No other early manuscript has been extensively corrected, by way of alteration of a single letter to the insertion of whole sentences, than has this one.
News from the Scroll page 9. July 14, 2009
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