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Oldest Christian Bible? Somebody didn't do their homework! We have originals of some of the New Testament written less than 100 years after Christ was cricified. The P52 dates from 125 AD. The Bodmer P66 dates from 200 AD. The Chester Beatty P46 and the Bodmer P75 date around 225 AD. The Chester Beatty P45 dates 250-300 AD. The Codex Sinaticus is not an original manuscript, it is a copy.

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Notice the word bible? Somebody didn't do their English homework!

While time is not kind to paper manuscripts, it's even less kind to digital media. Imagine a DVD being discovered 1600 years from now. Even if it were somehow in pristine condition, it would be a bear to read - seeing as how DVD readers had become obsolete at least 1500 years before.

I clicked the link to the manuscript thinking, "it'll be in a language I don't speak." And sure enough I got a longwinded error message in German! xD