Monks are hard at work at Mount Sinai, deciphering ancient religious texts with the latest technology. The technique, known as hyperspectral imaging, will use a camera to photograph the parchments at different wavelengths of light, highlighting faded texts obscured by time and later overwritings.
Saint Catherine’s Monastery (the world’s oldest) hopes the technology will allow a fuller understanding of some of the world’s earliest Christian texts, including pages from the Codex Sinaiticus – the oldest surviving bible in the world written between 330 and 350 AD (CE).
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Ummm
By Bible, we mean Codex Bible, instead of Bible in other formats, correct?
— Ender, Duke_of_URL
Codex Sinaiticus
Here it is:
Codex Sinaiticus
Document archaeology
Kool!
Looks like ancient Greek…thought I read a story about some kinda x-ray technology of the Dead Sea Scrolls…and maybe last year or before something about x-ray of some ancient mathematics docs… They’ve been doing this with paintings…? and King Tut!
What if this isn’t the oldest “Bible” maybe the oldest is in Hebrew or Aramaic and keepin company with the Holy Grail some place.. arrrgh..! not more fodder for a dreadful Dan Brown epic eep!
I should search the LisNews archives to see if those stories are here…