One of the oldest biblical manuscripts will be exhibited on the Internet. After about a year and a half copies of the virtual Codex Sinaiticus will be available to everyone. As the Western European correspondent for ' the Russian news service ', this in Berlin on Tuesday, officials said the computer company that performs an unusual project.
400 pages in Greek, which date from the 4th century AD, over the centuries were in the monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, which gave the name of this manuscript. According to legend, they were found in the trash. In 1844, the German theologian Constantin von Tischendorf had brought 43 parchment pages in Leipzig, where they were in the university library. Other fragments of the New Testament are in the Public Library of St. Petersburg and the British Library in London.
About three hundred pages have disappeared without a trace. International Project on digitizing unique text began two years. Director of the Library in Leipzig, Ulrich Johannes Schneider calls it ... The Christians of Egypt has repeatedly demanded the return of the Codex Sinaiticus. Digitized pages of one of the oldest biblical manuscripts fell a computer company in Berlin. According to its representatives, the work will be completed in 2009, according to rusnovosti. ru.
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