The British Library is lending the world’s oldest bible to fellow London institute the British Museum, for an exhibit that explores “1,200 years of Christian, Islamic and Jewish faith in Egypt after the pharaohs,” the Guardian says.
“It is quite phenomenal they they are able to lend it to us,” says Elisabeth O’Connell, assistant keeper in the British Museum’s department of ancient Egypt and Sudan, according to the Guardian. “We are absolutely thrilled.”
The Codex Sinaiticus, or Sinai Codex, was found in Sinai in 1844, and is dated to the 4th century CE. The Greek manuscript includes sections of the Old Testament and the entire New Testament. From the Old Testament it includes sections of Genesis, Leviticus and Numbers, as well as parts of the books of Esther, Isaiah, Lamentations and Jeremiah.
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