Digitising the Hand-Written Bible: The Codex Sinaiticus, its History and Modern Presentation
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Ekkehard Henschke
The German theologian Konstantin von Tischendorf discovered the oldest manuscript of the Bible in the middle of the 19th century. Thereafter its parts were dispersed and stored in famous libraries in London, Leipzig and St. Petersburg, and in St. Catherine's Monastery near Mount Sinai, its original home. An international consortium of libraries has been formed to preserve and research all the parts of this manuscript and then to unite them in digital form. This will result in a virtual Codex Sinaiticus on the Internet, though there will also be a printed version. Standards for preservation, transcription and digitisation have been established with the help of European and U.S. experts. This joint venture, supported by a number of research councils and foundations, began in 2006 and will be completed by 2010.
© 2007 by K. G. Saur Verlag
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