Correcting the Codex - 18 February 2011 |
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Dr Dirk Jongkind, a Research Fellow at Tyndale House who knows a thing or two about the textual history of the New Testament, has made some comments about a recent BBC documentary on Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest complete copy of the whole Bible, dating from around AD350.
A largely well-researched programme was let down by the Wikipedia-level contention that Codex Sinaiticus contains numerous corrections driven by a “theological agenda.” Oops.
In an email circulated this week to friends of Tyndale house, Dr Jongkind said, “This is the weak point in the whole documentary: everyone who makes the effort to see what sort of alterations are made to the text will see that the scribes’ agenda was to preserve the readings found in older handwritten copies.”
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