The London Times Online announces that the January 28th issue of the TLS will have an article on the Codex Sinaiticus, a mid-fourth-century manuscript of the entire Christian Bible. From the website:

Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. Its heavily corrected text is of outstanding importance for the history of the Bible and the manuscript the oldest substantial book to survive Antiquity is of supreme importance for the history of the book.

A project is underway to unite the pages of the manuscript that in the last century and a half have been scattered in four different locations. Information on all of this is at: http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/

Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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