Box 88011, Grand Rapids, MI 49518 USA. Codex Vaticanus, a manuscript dated 325-350 AD, contains the earliest complete copy of the New Testament Bible. James, plenty of things that other people think are obvious do not seem obvious to me. Codex Vaticanus is one of the most important manuscripts for the text of the Septuagint and Greek New Testament, it is a leading member of the Alexandrian text-type. column. Dean Burgon describes the poor workmanship of Vaticanus: Codex B [Vaticanus] comes to us without a history: without recommendation of any kind, except that of its antiquity. when he wrote the text of Mark 16:1-8 from an exemplar that did not have verses Scribe A wrote most of the historical and poetical books of the Old Testament, almost the whole of the New Testament, and the Epistle of Barnabas 2. They range from the alteration of a single letter to the insertion of whole sentences. 1209, a 4th century uncial manuscript of the Septuagint and the New Testament, is, along with the Codex Sinaiticus, one of the two extant 4th century manuscripts of the Old and New Testament in Greek, the language used by the early Christians. It was written by three scribes, and has been corrected by at least two more3. 9-20, or merely (as I have previously thought) an estimate. Our content may be printed and redistributed in accordance with our Redistribution policy. I don't think that the mere observation that the driver is doing *nothing* is a sufficient reason to resist the natural conclusion about *why* he is doing nothing. added a blank space to represent the blank space at the end of his JW:I like professor Head's comment that the offending blank space is a sort of Rorschach test. the earliest manuscripts do not include 16:9-20.”   So says a bracketed heading-note in the. Of these, Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus have been exalted as the “oldest and best” manuscripts. Oxford and London: James Parker and Co., 1871, pg. Vaticanus adds to the Old Testament the apocryphal books of Baruch, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Judith, Tobit, and the Epistle of Jeremiah. These manuscripts may be the driving force to get “Protestants” to accept the Apocrypha as well as the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas, books so heretical that even the Roman Catholic Church does not accept them as Scripture. Scribe D wrote the whole of Tobit and Judith, the first half of 4 Maccabees, the first two-thirds of the Psalms, and the first five verses of Revelation Scribe B was a poor speller, and scribe A was not very much better; the best scrib… Yet we are to imagine that non-canonical writings circulated widely and quickly - even some referencing the 12 verses, such as Irenaeus' Against Heresies - but NT manuscripts containing the end of Mark somehow did not make come to the awareness of scribes in Alexandria (or possibly Caesarea) after well over one hundred years? Neither Codex Vaticanus, nor Codex Alexandrinus had the full text of the New Testament. Is a resurgence in public interest in Sinaiticus and Vaticanus intended to bring acceptance of heretical works like these into Christian circles? Manuscripts repeatedly proven to have incorrect readings loose respectability. Narrative of the Discovery of the Sinaitic Manuscript, pg 23. http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/extras/tischendorf-sinaiticus.html, 11Burgon, The Last Twelve Verses of Mark, pg 75, 12Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose. Bible scholarship of the past 150 years has placed much attention on a very small number of manuscripts. Contrary to what has been taught in most seminaries, these two manuscripts are worthless, and hopelessly corrupt. P.O. The Ten Commandments prohibit false testimony (Ex 20:16). Copyright © 2001 - 2021 Preserved Word Ministries   It is perhaps for this reason that Daniel Codex Vaticanus (Vatikan, Bibl. although the copyist rearranged the Gospels into the order Mt-Mk-Lk-Jn, he the result of a determined effort to dismiss the obvious implication of the blank “Some of When examining the Gospels as found in Vaticanus, Burgon found 7578 deviations from the majority, with 2370 of them being serious. When compared to the King James (KJV) bible, or any other Bible version, many conflicting and 'confusing' attestations and omissions are presented. The evidence fits the following four points: (A) The scribe's calculation that vv. A particular reading signifies one that is most definitely false. One of these blank spaces is the space between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament, One of these blank spaces occurs at the end of Second Esdras, the text of Psalms is formatted in two columns, Kephalaia: The Ancient Chapters of the Gospels. It is shown by Tischendorf that this codex was written in the fourth century, and is thus of about the same age as the Vatican codex; but while the latter wants the greater part of Matthew and sundry leaves here and there besides, the Sinaiticus is the only copy of the New Testament in uncial characters which is … The scribe would think that even if there is a little mental side-proviso .."if I'm off, and it is needed, we simply compress or place a bit in the margin. Thanks James,What do you mean by 'compacted' letters? While disagreeing with the majority text, they also heavily disagree among each other. Still unknown is the identity of the patron and commissioner. Our best guess is that Vaticanus, like Codex Sinaiticus, was almost surely produced in Egypt, probably in Alexandria. Moreover, the manuscript turned out to be older than the two codices known before! I mentioned in our debate that I agree it likely that the Scribe was aware of the LE (Eusebius/Alexandrian text). For most of the New Testament, Codex Sinaiticus is in general agreement with Codex Vaticanus and Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, attesting an Alexandrian text-type, but gr. And there can be places where the undertext looks at least a bit different than the overtext, I pointed that out on the textualcriticism forum, the experts did not disagree but they do not seem to care. In addition Dean John Burgon, a highly respected Bible scholar of the mid to late 1800’s, wrote of these manuscripts, “The impurity of the Texts exhibited by Codices B and Aleph [Vaticanus and Sinaiticus] is not a matter of opinion but a matter of fact.”1 These documents are both of dubious origin. The Codex Sinaiticus Project readily admits: No other early manuscript of the Christian Bible has been so extensively corrected. In the Gospels, it is the most important witness of the text, in Acts and Catholic epistles, equal to Codex Sinaiticus, in Pauline epistles it has some Western readings and the value of its text is a little lower than of the Codex Sinaiticus. 24 Jul. It is not a unique work written by one author, which is how we generally think of books today. This is, however, a minor point that has no effect on your overall argument. 9-20 could fit in the blank space was correct; he merely reckoned that one would need to use compacted lettering, which any trained scribe could do. The only real question, istm, is whether the copyist made a precise calculation of the space that would be required for vv. Peter M Head, As I state in the post, if one were to use the copyist's normal lettering to write verses 9-20 after 16:8, one would reach the end of the third column on the page with four lines left to be written. 3Benigni, Umberto. For instance, Irenaeus was acquainted with the writings of Justin within a couple of decades of them being written, and Tertullian and Hippolytus were acquainted with those of Justin and Irenaeus in short order as well. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away. The oldest claim has been disproved elsewhere. 9-20 in the time he had to finish his work, /or/ he did have access, but made a conscious decision to defer the include-or-omit decision to someone else, either a supervisor, or the future owner of the manuscript. The telling sign of false witnesses is a disagreement in their testimony. exemplar. . Vat., Vat. space is not quite adequate to include verses 9-20. In the New Testament, the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas are added. copyist’s work ended at the end of Tobit, and another copyist’s work begins The mistakes which the original transcriber made are of perpetual recurrence.4. This especially hurts with the important Coordination criterion. The only reason to leave space on the next page would be a clear idea that the section would likely be added, and would spill over. But if he had the section and thought it would likely be added, then he also could have simply included the section, you have to start really doing mental scriptorium conjecturing. The Sinaiticus was discovered by Constantine Tischendorf in the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine, on the Sinai peninsula. These two manuscript witnesses constantly disagree with the majority of the manuscript evidence, showing them to be suspect witnesses. 2 T. C. Skeat, The Codex Sinaiticus, the Codex Vaticanus and Constantine. I … Manuscripts repeatedly proven to have incorrect readings loose respectability. write the contents of verses 9-20, beginning at the end of v. 8, using the copyist’s (D) Either the scribe could not access a copy with vv. It is the most complete of all ancient books. Only 300 years away from the original manuscripts of the New Testament, it is highly important and considered … The telling sign of false witnesses is a disagreement in their testimony. It's like watching a driver stop his car *exactly* where ducks are known to cross the road in a city part. Burgon observed: “…they render inconsistent testimony in every verse…”, and “…it is easier to find two consecutive verses in which the two MSS. The Last Twelve Verses of Mark. Cambridge: Deighton Bell and Co., 1864, pg xv http://books.google.com/books?id=CNmOa7HaS6EC&pg=PP23&dq=%22begun+and+immediately+cancelled%22, 14http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/codex/significance.aspx, 15http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/project/transcription.aspx, 17See G.A. The Codex is named after its place of conservation in the Vatican Library, where it has been kept since at least the 15th century. Vaticanus omits Mark 16:9-20, yet there is a significant blank space here for these verses. We know that it is a 759-page documentthat had been dated back to the mid-300s AD. Western order with blank space at the end which the copyist wished to The table below lists the King James Bible (KJV) verses that conflict with the relatively recent Biblical manuscript discoveries, the Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus. For many bare false witness against him, but, ” (Mark 14:55-56). In earlier times, manuscripts were kept in three different places: in the north wall of the monastery, in the vicinity of the church, and in a central location where the texts were accessible.8. While there are over 5000 known New Testament manuscripts, attention has been placed on less than ten. "Also note that in (a) the scribe did what was the best thing possible. The Bible warns of false witnesses: “And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none. The pages of ancient codices were square or nearly … differ the one from the other, than two consecutive verses in which they entirely agree…”22. Peter M. Head, Rather, We can't know /in an empirical sense/ that the blank column was deliberately left for additional text (after all, the request to /know/ this is a request to read the mind of someone who lived in the 300's). copyist’s work was attached to the pages produced by another copyist. based on previous reading or sight or his scriptorium head saying "leave space"b) the ms. in view On (b) the scribe would have four possible thoughts as to his calculation, and any of these can be combined with others.1) not an exact calculation, done quickly and looked ok enough2) compression can deal with it3) in a pinch the margin can add a bit4) since there is a decent possibility that the ending is not going to be added, the space is muy suficiente.=======Sloan makes a good point that the conclusion of James is more abductive than deductive (thank you, Sloan, I am considering which way describes better the conclusion of Sinaiticus as an 1800s production) It is abductive because with the evidence we have:c) the scribe simply decided to start another page, knowing only the "woman afraid" endingIs surely at least a small possibility. Pg 792, 6Burgon, The Last Twelve Verses, pp 86-87, 7See Burgon, The Last Twelve Verses, opening pages, for a photograph of this position in Sinaiticus, 8http://www.sinaimonastery.com/en/index.php?lid=94, 9von Tischendorf, Constantine. Sinaiticus has been recently made available to all on the internet by the Codex Sinaiticus Project, with the mainstream media and general Christians fawning over this “world’s oldest Bible.” This manuscript, in conjunction with Codex Vaticanus, form the basis for most modern Bible translations. editors of the codex). The Revision Revised. A Modern analysis identifies at least three scribes: 1. He /could/ in theory have stopped for some unknown or arbitrary reason, but the probability is that he is aware that ducks are crossing the road -- particularly if it is known that exactly 12 ducks cross the road at that place, and he stops his car for almost exactly the amount of time it takes for those 12 ducks to cross the road. It bears traces of. Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus, two of great uncial codices, representatives of the Alexandrian text-type, are considered excellent manuscript witnesses of the text of the New Testament. The oldest claim has been disproved elsewhere. concerned, “Some” =, The last page of Mark in Codex Vaticanus with verses 9-20, the unusual features in Codex Sinaiticus involving the ending of Mark. Vaticanus, Codex Is said to be the oldest extant vellum manuscript. Where is the evidence that the Find out more about Codex Sinaiticus Alexandrian form of the Gospels-text was ever anything but in the order Mt-Mk-Lk-Jn? From the monastery’s website: When Egeria visited the Sinai around the year 380, she wrote approvingly of the way the monks read to her the scriptural accounts concerning the various events that had taken place there. after the end of Tobit did not initially consist of just the remainder of the page. Scholars have designated these manuscripts as Alexandrian, linking them with Alexandria, Egypt, the region responsible for early heresies such as Gnosticism and Arianism. JTS 50 (1999), pp. So if the blank column was deliberately left for possible additional text (I don't think we can know this); then it is possible to imagine that the scribe may have thought he had left enough space for 16.9-20. Why would one of the top Bible scholars of his day make such remarks of manuscripts considered the “oldest and best” by others? The Codex Sinaiticus Project is an international collaboration to reunite the entire manuscript in digital form and make it accessible to a global audience for the first time. On the other hand, I included "And in their hands: in verse 18, so as to represent the Alexandrian text. The differences are more frequent in the Old Testament where the codices Sinaiticus and Alexandrinus often agree. The ms. is not physically available to be scoured for little original notes erased. I look at the big blank space and think, 'Aha, a big blank space after the end of Mark's Gospel, there is nothing written on it, so that is not very interesting - I can't interpret big blank spaces because intrinsically they entail lack of evidence rather than provision of evidence.' The New Westminster Dictionary of the Bible concurs, “It should be noted, however, that there is no prominent Biblical MS. in which there occur such gross cases of misspelling, faulty grammar, and omission, as in B [Vaticanus].”5 Vaticanus omits Mark 16:9-20, yet there is a significant blank space here for these verses.6 Sinaiticus also lacks these verses, but has a blank space for them.7 These two manuscripts are the only Greek manuscripts that omit these verses! Both are dated in the mid to late fourth century. London: John Murray, 1883, pg 315. This theory seems like Vat., Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 (Vat. revisers between the IVth and XIIth centuries…”. Thus, the public needs to know the truth about these manuscripts. The cut-and-pasted reconstruction of verses 9-20 shows that a precise calculation is a valid possibility. Separated from one another in actual date by 50, perhaps by 100 years, they must needs have branched off from a common corrupt ancestor, and straightway become exposed continuously to fresh depraving influences. Why would one of the top Bible scholars of his day make such remarks of manuscripts considered the “oldest and best” by others? This is especially true, for the New Testament, of the Gospels. Most critical editions of the Greek New Testament give precedence to these two chief uncial manuscripts, and the majority of translations are based on their text. In your comments, you indicated that this was a deductive inference. In the Gospels alone, Vaticanus has 197 particular readings, while Sinaiticus has 443. Codex Vaticanus is a manuscript that is equally as old as Codex Sinaiticus. 1209; no. . As for the text of these two manuscripts, it is notably an inferior text (when one is able to determine the true text in the light of all the corrections). (I also used numerals rather than write "seven" and "eleven" in full. An 1861 translation of Sinaiticus’s New Testament has been placed online, including the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas.16 These two false writings (Epistle of Barnabas and Shepherd of Hermas) promote New Age and Satanism17. The other "Every letter that you see in verses 9-20 appears somewhere in Mark 15:43-16:8 on the same page of Codex Vaticanus, with no artificial adjustment of its size. Also the lack of a specific notation, even in the margin, favors c. (Sidenotes: Remember that Wieland says the ms. looks washed, a curious point that is rarely placed in consideration. differ the one from the other, than two consecutive verses in which they entirely agree…”. However, speaking precisely, it is an abductive inference (a.k.a. Alexandrian text, were arranged in the Western order (Mt-Jn-Mk-Lk), and Ararat, VA: A.V Publications Corp., 1993. pp 559-580. They are false witnesses of the Word of God. 1209); Gregory-Aland no. end of Tobit is simply leftover space. I don't know why this is not as obvious to you as it is to me. Burgon explains, I am utterly unable to believe, in short, that God’s promise [of preservation] has so entirely failed, that at the end of 1800 years much of the text of the Gospel had in point of fact to be picked by a German critic out of a waste-paper basket in the convent of St. Catherine; and that the entire text had to be remodelled after the pattern set by a couple of copies which had remained in neglect during fifteen centuries, and had probably owed their survival to that neglect; whilst hundreds of others had been thumbed to pieces, and had bequeathed their witness to copies made from them.24. Along with Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most valuable manuscripts for textual criticism of the Greek New Testament, as well as the Septuagint. Also, in either scenario, he would feel very awkward starting the next column somewhere other than the start of the page. An 1861 translation of Sinaiticus’s New Testament has been placed online, including the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas. Sinaiticus also includes spurious, uninspired, apocryphal books, including 2 Esdras,Tobit, Judith, 1 & 4 Maccabees, Wisdom and Sirach in the Old Testament. Burgon had personally examined these two manuscripts, and noted that their text differed greatly form that of 95% of all manuscripts. Two of the oldest complete (or nearly complete) manuscripts are the Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus. Wallace’s when he refers to an "estimate" as what James "previously thought" (however both a and b allow for the idea of an estimate,)In (a) though, the ms. not in view, there is virtually zero compressed issue, the idea that the space "looks big enough" for a previous ending section is fine. Monasteries are known for exceptional libraries, and scholars would often visit to conduct research. It was heavily used by Westcott and Hort in their edition, The New Testament in the Original Greek (1881). As you can see, it looks like a much-corrected rough draft. Codex Vaticanus. Sinaiticus also includes spurious, uninspired, apocryphal books, including 2 Esdras,Tobit, Judith, 1 & 4 Maccabees, Wisdom and Sirach in the Old Testament. Your theory that the space was an invitation to add an ending (not necessarily limited to the LE) is a reasonable one. It will be seen that Sinaiticus and Vaticanus do not pass the false witness test. The mistakes which the original transcriber made are of perpetual recurrence. 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