Search for oldest Bible manuscripts at Mount Sinai
English scholars and religious leaders launch a movement to thoroughly search the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai for ancient Bible manuscripts. Historian Tischendorf explored the library in 1844 1853 and 1859, discovering the oldest known Greek manuscript of the Bible.
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Monastery of St Catherine Holds Ancient Bible Treasures
Scholars recount the Sinaitic monastery's treasures from a fourth century palimpsest of St Paul to the original Gospel of Luke in Syriac. The 1 500 year old site, founded by Justinian around 527, guards vast manuscripts and a long history amid desert isolation and monkly devotion.
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