Codex Sinaiticus: Joshua 1 (?)
July 7th, 2009 by Andrew Bernhard under Miscellaneous. No Comments.
I mentioned in my previous post that most of the first part of the Old Testament (from Genesis-1 Chronicles) had been lost from Codex Sinaiticus. To this, I must now add information just posted by Tommy Wasserman, who is currently attending a conference on Codex Sinaiticus at the British Library:
A scholar who is working on the bookbindings of St Catherine of Mt Sinai has found what is most probably a new leaf of Codex Sinaiticus within the binding of the book!
Jan Krans has added in a note to the post:
The text, if I remember well, is from Joshua 1. It is currently debated whether it should be tried to liberate the fragment from the binding (one would like to read the backside as well), or to wait for technological advancements.
Fragments of ancient manuscripts do turn up in the most peculiar places, don’t they?
