British
Museum
An
extremely brief book, perhaps twenty or thirty large pages, with some
lovely illustrations of Sinaiaticus (if that's how it's spelled ~ i
can't be bothered to fetch the book
and look), perhaps the
single most important early copy of the Bible in existence today ~ at
least as implied by its code-name א,
aleph. There was little in here, if any, that i had not previously
come across but, to be fair, i have a personal history in which the
Bible and its transmission have played a somewhat greater part than
the general populace at which this book is aimed. It is, in fact, i
suspect, the sort of production the British Museum ~ or possibly the
British Library if they are, unfortunately, now separate
organisations ~ makes to sell in its gift shop (a retail outlet i
have no evidence towards but am merely surmising the existence of):
The language is fairly simple, as are the descriptions of the
artefact and its history and provenance. Interesting, but not as
detailed as i had hoped when i ordered the thing.
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