 Jorjor says: The Codex Sinaiticus is the oldest known complete copy of the Judaeo-Christian bible known to exist. It is now online, and it will give you a chance to read a text uncorrupted by the fog of translation. Of course, you'll have to be fluent in classical Greek and a number of other dead languages, but, after all, if you're serious about scripture, what's a little learning? hmmmmm Greek, Hebrew, Mesopawhatever? Naaah I'll stay with the hear say. Yup, I'm going to haul my butt to the library tomorrow and borrow some language tapes. Actually it would be very interesting to actually be able to read it as it was written. Wow, that would be an interesting read. Assuming you could, that is. I've kinda let my ancient languages slide. :oP Solæ linguæ Bonæ sunt linguæ mortuæ. Jorjor, you did good to post this. Whether you can read it or not, someone can and interpret it for us. This document is over 1600 years old and declared to be "one of the most important books in the world". Let others make fun of it. Not all of us are doing so. For what may be the first time ever, jay8h, I agree with you, but probably for different reasons. For example, one of the major tenets of the Roman Catholic Church hinges on the correct interpretation of the word "παρθενος". If it were to be found that it had been interpreted wrong for the last 1,600 years, a good deal of doctrine would be wiped out overnight. I saw a show last night about the dead sea scrolls. I found it interesting that the word "rapture" didn't come about until the late 1500's. I guess I always assumed it was a biblical word. But it was picked up by the christians years later. Kinda makes you think, wonder, ponder ~~~~~^%$(```````~~~~~~~ googleit pondering ~~~~~~``@#%$&^*&^~~~~~~~ strange! This news item does open that classic can of worms: translations, original text vs. text later added (Mark 16: 9-20, many say), what stories become orthodox and what stories considered apocrypha, etc. (The Shepherd of Hermas & the Epistle of Barnabas, in this Codex Sinaiticus not part of the official canon of the Vatican). Who makes such decisions? What happens to those don't agree, etc. It was quite a stress test to consider all these things again. It will be interesting to see what light the Internet shines on it all and cool someone realized that getting such documents online was better than having them hidden in obscurity. Of course, on a deeper level, these stories might have no mor... In the first five centuries of Christianity, more Christians were killed by other Christians over arguments like which books to include in the canon, the proper way for calculating the date of Easter, whether the Christ was co-existant with the father from the beginning or only came to exist when born as a human, whether his mother was really a virgin, all that kind of stuff. Of course, the CS has been around and studied for years; the only thing new is that it's online. Most of the people with the knowledge to get asnything useful out of it have already had a crack at it. |
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