Antiquitopia

If you are having trouble seeing the Codex Sinaiticus on its new site because there are too many concurrent connections, go to the German version of the site (which evidently has less traffic than the English section). It is a very nice tool. It has photos of each page which you can view with two different types of light and which you can magnify, a transcription of each verse, and translation (the translation was not up when I was playing around on the German site). Have fun looking at the oldest most complete Bible online!

Codex Sinaiticus, one of the most important ancient texts, since it is the earliest most complete New Testaments that has survived (plus the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas), is now going to be digitized and parts of it, Mark I think, will go online today. The majority of the text has been housed in the British Museum, with pages or fragments of it being housed in Leipzig, St. Petersberg, and at St. Catherine's in the Sinai. It also contains Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) along with "Apocrypha"--often referred to as the Septuagint (LXX), although this designation only technically refers to the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible). The first half of the Old Testament texts are missing (from Genesis up to 1 Chronicles). Those going online today or soon include 1 Chronicles, 2 Esdras, Esther, Tobit, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Psalms. Most New Testaments rely upon a reconstructed synthetic text that takes into account all ...

Please note the extra page elements I have placed on the right hand side. Firstly, I have posted a link to my newly written online academic bio on the Columbia Religion Department website. Secondly, I have posted the flyer for the "Instituting Religion" conference occurring this Thursday! Be sure to come if you are around! Soon, I hope to add a slideshow as well that will show some of my pics from my travels around the Mediterranean.

For those who are interested, I have greatly enlarged the number of my hyperlinks in my "Online Resources for Antiquity" section. If you know of others, please send me the links and I will add those as well. Otherwise, enjoy the sources!

Because I have been engrossed in Coptic language, including the gritty text-critical issues, etc., for the past year, I have decided to add a few online sites (which I lifted from "Forbidden Gospels") to my sidebar. So, for all the aspiring Coptologists out there, check these sites out, and if you know of any more, please send them to me!