Codex Sinaiticus to be released online

[-Davo]

AF knows I have an itch for history and religion, and this is just fantastic news!

The oldest know Bible, dating mid 4th century will be posted online.

Handwritten in Greek more than 1,600 years ago — it isn't exactly clear where — the surviving 400 or so pages carry a version of the New Testament that has a few interesting differences from the Bible used by Christians today.


The Gospel of Mark ends abruptly after Jesus' disciples discover his empty tomb, for example. Mark's last line has them leaving in fear.
"It cuts out the post-resurrection stories," said Juan Garces, curator of the Codex Sinaiticus Project. "That's a very odd way of ending a Gospel."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g...SSeUwD922E3300

http://www.codexsinaiticus.org

This sheds light on the early Christian worldat the time of Emperor Constantine, who formed the modern Bible at the Council of Nicea. This very well may be a copy of one of the first Bibles.

But I doubt it, since Mark completely negates the resurrection, the core belief of Christianity. It could be a hypothesis that Mark never mentions the said events, and Christians interpolated it in later.