King Abdullah’s exhortation that people should develop tolerance for difference, even difference in religion, is getting a boost in this Asharq Alawsat story about the Christian Bible. The Bible is not held in particularly high regard by Muslims as they believe it has corrupted the word of God as passed down to the prophets. Obviously, that’s not what Christians believe. Reporting a story that respectfully reports on efforts to reconstruct the world’s oldest Bible is notable.

Oldest Bible made whole again online

LONDON, (Reuters) – The surviving parts of the world’s oldest Bible will be reunited online on Monday, generating excitement among biblical scholars still striving to unlock its mysteries.

The Codex Sinaiticus was hand written by four scribes in Greek on animal hide, known as vellum, in the mid-fourth century around the time of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great who embraced Christianity.
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