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Codex Sinaiticus (‘ℵ’)

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Codex Sinaiticus (‘ℵ’). A MS of the Greek Bible, probably written in the 4th cent., which was discovered by C. Tischendorf in the monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai. He presented most of the MS to the Tsar of Russia; in 1933 the Soviet Government sold this to the Trustees of the British Museum. (43 leaves are in Leipzig; 15 more were found in St Catherine's monastery in 1975.) The MS contains about half the OT, the whole NT, the ‘Epistle of Barnabas’, and part of the ‘Shepherd’ of Hermas. The NT readings are one of the chief witnesses to the Neutral or Alexandrian text.

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