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 Do
you know what is the bestselling book in the world? Do think it’s
Harry Potter? Well, yes, that book is famous too. However, the bestselling
book of all time is the Bible. Just like any good
book, the Bible wasn’t made in one day. As a matter of fact, it took
thousands of years to collect the stories of the
Bible. You see, it wasn’t easy to write about stories about God, Jesus and his many followers in one day. The
Bible is actually divided into many small books.
You can also think of it as a collection of stories from
God’s followers.
The first Bible was from the 4th Century. The book was passed on and
on through history. So, don’t you agree
the original Bible is precious? Sure it is! It’s
considered as a treasure. Sadly, over 1600
years passed. And the book has been lost. Until now we were only able
to find short pages of the book in different countries. Some of them
were in Russia. And there were some more pages found in Greece. For so long, people wanted
to collect all the pages and recreate the original Bible.
Here’s something very shocking. Historians have been trying
to do this since 1933! Some British historians found 347 pages in
Russia. And archeologists and historians
from all over the world carefully search every year. It was
a very hard process because the book’s
different pages have been ripped or damaged. And they were scattered
in different places across the world.
 Finally, whatever pages that
were found came together. Some were lost or destroyed. But, a big chunk of the original Bible
was collected recently. Unfortunately, since the
paper was very old, it was hard to recreate the book. Instead, historians and archeologists
decided to use technology. They got together
in England, and came up with a digital version. Every page was carefully
treated and scanned. The images were
put together, and the oldest
Bible was born again!
The British Library and Museum will soon publish the digital Bible
on a CD. So, I guess you won’t have to go all the way to England to
look at the world’s first
Bible! If you want to check it out right now, visit,
http://www.codexsinaiticus.org |
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