28 April 2007

Raiders of the Lost Codex

Now this would be absolutely freaking cool to see. I can imagine the translation of now would be much different from the translation of the first Bible. I do hope these various people can come together long enough to do this.

Scholars Piece Together Ancient Bible

Parts of the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus -- which includes the world's earliest complete New Testament -- are scattered between Leipzig, London and St. Petersburg. Now researchers want to digitize the fragments and publish the whole volume on the Internet. But controversy still rages over the proper ownership of the relic.

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