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Two Treasures in the British Library

We were in London this past week for a conference and, arriving a couple of hours early, decided to visit the British Library (I had never been there before). By the Lord’s providence, we wandered into an exhibition hall, and as a result unexpectedly had an opportunity to see two very special treasures which happened to be on display: Codex Sinaiticus, and a 1526 Tyndale New Testament. Codex Sinaiticus Codex Sinaiticus is a handwritten Greek New Testament manuscript, dated around A.D. 350. It received its name from where it was found: St. Catherine’s Monastery, located below what is allegedly, according to tradition, Mount Sinai. 1 According to the British Library: “ Codex Sinaiticus… is a priceless treasure. Copied around the middle of the fourth century, in the south-eastern Mediterranean, it is the earliest extant manuscript to contain the complete New Testament and the oldest and best witness for some of the books of the ancient Greek version of the Old Testam...

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