{"id":2258,"date":"2009-11-27T04:06:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T11:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2009-11-27T04:13:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T11:13:35","slug":"oldest-bible-now-in-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/11\/27\/oldest-bible-now-in-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest Bible now in digital&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the December, 2009 edition of National Geographic, I came across an article by A.R. Williams detailing how the oldest known New Testament is now available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/codexsinaiticus.org\/en\/\">http:\/\/codexsinaiticus.org\/en\/<\/a>\u00a0. According to Williams, the virtual version lets you see additions that were made and corrections that were overwritten. I tried it out and it is truly realistic. It took scholars, including the British Library, over four years to digitize! Amazing. The tools at <a href=\"http:\/\/codexsinaiticus.org\/en\/manuscript.aspx\">http:\/\/codexsinaiticus.org\/en\/manuscript.aspx<\/a>\u00a0really give you the feeling that you are flipping through the ancient codex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the December, 2009 edition of National Geographic, I came across an article by A.R. Williams detailing how the oldest known New Testament is now available online at http:\/\/codexsinaiticus.org\/en\/\u00a0. According to Williams, the virtual version lets you see additions that were made and corrections that were overwritten. I tried it out and it is truly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2197],"tags":[4683,4919,6810,5295],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","tag-artifact","tag-codex","tag-text","tag-web-2-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}