Basic Bible Teaching: The Codex Sinaiticus...(John Thorpe)

Wednesday 31 July 2024

The Codex Sinaiticus...(John Thorpe)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]A @Christadelphians Video: The Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most significant biblical manuscripts that is still known. It is in the British Museum library (the British Library). The Codex Sinaiticus is was originally a complete manuscript of the Bible, in Greek. A considerable portion of the Old Testament is now missing from this manuscript, but the text of the New Testament is almost complete. The manuscript was copied in the first half of the fourth century; this means that it is an important witness to the text of the New Testament. This video presents a picture of the Codex Sinaiticus and shows how it fits into the history of our understanding of the way that the New Testament text has passed down to the present day. The history of the Codex Sinaiticus is also the history of the textual criticism of the New Testament. The portion of the Codex Sinaiticus in Britain is in the British Library, which is different from the British Museum. See https://codexsinaiticus.org/en/codex/history.aspx This portion was purchased by the British Museum in 1933 and the library used to be part of the British Museum. But in 1973 the British Library was formed and is a separate organisation from the museum. The text that goes with the YouTube video, “British Museum library (the British Library)” is not correct. (At about 30 seconds in the speaker says of a photograph: “That picture shows the Codex on display in the British Museum in 2005”. Actually, it is an exhibition in the British Museum in 2015, for which the British Library loaned the Codex Sinaiticus to the museum: Oldest complete New Testament to go on display at British Museum The text that goes with the photo says it was taken in the British Library in 2007: A Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, right, the earliest complete New Testament, from 4th century Egypt or Judea on display in the 'Sacred: Discover what we share' exhibition at the British Library in London, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 (AP Photo/Sang Tan) [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl52svVPWqs[/embedyt][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation="none"]*************************************************************************************** This video was produced by the ChristadelphianVideo.org project, arranged and supported by Christadelphians worldwide. You can follow us online at.. #1 Our Main site...