Codex Sinaiticus dihimpun dan dijilid sekitar 1.600 tahun silam

Naskah Kita Injil tertua di dunia yang masih bertahan, "Codex Sinaiticus" telah disatukan kembali dan tersedia di internet. "Codex Sinaiticus" yang kini telah berumur 1.600 tahun tercerai berai setelah ditemukan pada Abad ke-18.

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Before the Codex Sinaiticus was compiled and bound less than 400 years after Jesus' crucifixion, most Bibles were written on collections of scrolls. The 1,400 parchment pages of the Codex - which was named after its discovery in Sinai - were scattered between St Petersburg, Leipzig, London and Egypt, but each page has now been digitally photographed and collected on a single web-site.

900 of the 16 by 14 inch pages survive, each bearing four neat columns of Classical Greek. Careful study reveals passages that have been questioned and altered repeatedly over the centuries.

The British Library, which begins an exhibition of the Codex Sinaiticus today, said the book gave first-hand evidence of how the text of the Bible had been transmitted from generation to generation.

Robert Pigott, BBC

Dengar kata-katanya

compiled
dihimpun, disatukan

bound
dijilid, dibukukan - dengan menyatukan lembaran-lembaran terpisah kertas, perkamen atau bahan lain yang dipergunakan untuk menulis

scrolls
gulungan kertas, perkamen atau bahan lain yang dipergunakan untuk menulis

parchment
bahan berwarna kekuningan dari kulit binatang yang dikeringkan dan diolah, dan di masa lalu dipergunakan untulus menulis

scattered between
tercerai berai, berserakan, berada di lokasi yang terpencar-pencar, seperti

neat
rapi, teratur

passages
di sini, sari, penggalan tulisan yang merupakan bagian dari karya tulis yang lebih besar

altered repeatedly
berulang kali berubah

the book gave first-hand evidence
kita tersebut memberikan bukti asli baru

transmitted
disampaikan, diteruskan, disebarkan