Sinai Codex

The Sinai Codex, formally known as the Codex Sinaiticus, is the oldest Bible in existence that contains the complete New Testament.

It was written between 300 and 400 A.D. in a dialect of Greek called Koine Greek, which was common in the Eastern Mediterranean region during the time it was written.

The Sinai Codex contains most of the Old Testament, also known as the Septuagint. It also contains the New Testament, the Apocrypha and two other non-canonical books.

It was written by three scribes with a sharpened reed and brownish black ink on parchment made from calf skins and sheep skins.

These pages were bound into a single book or codex which originally contained about 730 35 cm by 38 cm leaves, of which about 414 leaves have been preserved.

It contains thousands of corrections made by seven editors, some of which were made centuries later.

The Sinai Codex was named for the location where a German Bible scholar named Constantin von Tischendorf discovered it in the mid-1800s.

He found it in an Orthodox Christian monastery named Saint Catherine's Monastery, which is located at the foot of the traditional Mount Sinai in the Sinai desert.

Today portions of the Sinai Codex are located in the British Museum in London, England, the Leipzig University Library in Leipzig, Germany, the National Library in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and the Saint Catherine's Monastery library in Egypt.

In 2005 these four libraries cooperated on a project that made high-resolution digital photographs of all the remaining pages of the Codex.

The New Testament portion of these photographs appears on this website.

Christopher Harness and his father, Mark Harness, have worked on Bibles in digital format since 2005.

Their first project was one of the earliest online Bible websites, named lookhigher.net. It was started in 2007, and eventually offered access to over 300 different versions of the Bible in English, Spanish and French.

They have also worked on several translations of the New Testament, named the Accurate New Testament, The Life of Jesus, and Good News For Young Believers. These were original translations of the Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament.

This website presents their first project using the Sinai Codex New Testament as its text base.

All suggestions about this website are gladly welcomed.

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