Historical Events tagged with "biblical scholarship"

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Education & Academia

Discovery of the Codex Sinaiticus in Egypt

February 4th, 1859 166 years ago

A collection of ancient biblical texts, known as the Codex Sinaiticus, was discovered by the biblical scholar Konstantin von Tischendorf at St. Catherine's Monastery in Egypt. Tischendorf identified the manuscript as an important artifact of early Christianity, containing the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. His efforts were aimed at preserving and understanding early biblical texts, and this discovery would later significantly contribute to biblical scholarship and textual criticism.

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