NEAR THE END? - Baptist Bible Tribune

DigressionsDigressions incontestibly are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.-Laurence SterneWebsite offers conservativereviews on filmsChristian Film News.com is anonprofit ministry of Filmsfor Christ (founded in 1959) thatprovides a Christian perspective onthe news from Hollywood as wellas the latest movies and games.Source: www.christianfilmnews.comOne in six Americans are Baptist17.2% of total U.S. adult population are Baptists6.7% Southern BaptistConvention1.8% National BaptistConvention1.2% American Baptist Church7.5% Other BaptistSource: Pew Research Center, www.pewforum.orgPieces of world’s oldest surviving Bible come together onlinecollection of 800 pages and fragments from theA work known as the Codex Sinaiticus are now all inone place and available to be viewed online at www.codexsinaiticus.org. Parts of the collection had beenstored in four locations around the world for morethan 150 years since it was discovered at the Monasteryof Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai by Germanscholar Constantine Tishchendorf.“If you would have liked to see it before youwould have had to travel to four countries in twocontinents. If you want to see the manuscript right nowall you have to do is go online and experience it foryourself.” says Juan Garces, the Codex Sinaiticus projectmanager. The British Library purchased 347 pagesfrom the Soviet Union in 1933, 43 pages are heldby the University Library in Leipzig, Germany, and theNational Library of Russia in St. Petersburg containssix fragments. The remaining 12 pages and fragmentswere discovered in a hidden room at the Mount Sinaimonastery in 1975.The manuscript, written in Greek, is believed tobe around 1,600 years old and contains the completeNew Testament but is missing parts of the Old Testament andthe Apocrypha. Most of the portion from Genesis to I Chroniclesis missing and is presumed to be lost. Animal-skin pagesthat are 15” x 13.5” account for more than 400 pages of themanuscript, which scholars now believe was written by four differentpenmen.Source: Associated Press, by Nardine Saad,Associated Press Writer, July 6, 20096 Baptist Bible Tribune [ July/August 2009 ]