Oldest bible digitized and online
I blogged about this a year or so back, but thanks to Deepak for pointing it out: the Codex Sinaiticus (’Sinai Book’), the world’s oldest Christian Bible, and one of the most important books in the world, is finally online.
This book marked the transition between papyrus-based codices and parchment-based codices, and was written in the 4th Century. It is also the oldest substantial book to survive antiquity.
The actual documents are housed in four separate institutions across the world: the British Library, University Library in Leipzig, National Library in St Petersburg, and Saint Catherine’s Monastery. Internet technologies make the pages available in a nice, Web 2.0 User Interface. Worth checking out!
