The Codex Sinaiticus - presented by Professor James Dunn

 

Presented by Professor James Dunn

The Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important documents in the world. Handwritten around 1600 years ago, the Codex is incomparable in its importance for our understanding of human civilization and the early Christian faith. Made up of 750 leaves, it contains the Christian Bible in Greek, and our oldest complete copy of the New Testament. Kept in the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai (from where it takes its name) until the mid-nineteenth century, and now divided between there, the British Library, the Library of the University of Leipzig, and the National Library of Russia, its modern history is as fascinating as its conception. We are immensely fortunate to have one of the world's leading New Testament scholars, Prof. James Dunn, present this extraordinary book.

Professor Dunn presented the second object in the series, the Codex Sinaiticus, on 29 September in Deddington Parish Church.


An introduction from Professor James Dunn.


Audio only of "the Codex Sinaiticus" presented by Professor James Dunn.

 

 

Further resources:

http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/ - A superlative website, allowing web-users to experience the world's oldest Bible in detail.
Karen Armstrong, The Bible: The Biography (Atlantic, 2007)
James Dunn, Jesus, Paul and the Gospels (Eerdmans, 2011)
James Dunn, Did the first Christians worship Jesus? (SPCK, 2010)
D.C. Parker, Codex Sinaiticus: The Story of the World's Oldest Bible (British Library Publishing, 2010)

 

 

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