"1,600-year-old version of Bible goes online

More than 1,600 years after it was written in Greek, one of the oldest copies of the Bible will become globally accessible online for the first time this week.

From Thursday, sections of the Codex Sinaiticus, which contains the oldest complete New Testament, will be available on the Internet, said the University of Leipzig, one of the four curators of the ancient text worldwide

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Selected translations will be available in English and German for those not conversant in ancient Greek, he added."

www.codex-sinaiticus.net

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Robert M. Teague

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