Where can I find Tischendorf's account of finding the Codex Sinaiticus in Logos?
Primary source please
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Not knowing specifically what you are looking for, Biblical Archaeologist vol 41 42 43 have notes about the discovery. Biblical World in Pictures has a nice write-up about St. Catherine's Monastery. Others with a paragraph or two, or some unique facts are Bible and Spade vol. 21, Who's Who in Christian History, Eerdman's Dictionary, ISBE, Tyndale Bulletin Vol. 56, and Zondervan Encyclopedia. Lexham Bible Dictionary has a nice write-up.
I have the Catholic Encyclopedia in Personal Book form, someone posted it here in the Files section, and it has a couple of paragraphs on the discovery too.
Have you tried searching for St. Catherine’s Monastery Tischendorf Codex Sinaiticus in your library?
Wikipedia is always good for such questions.
Actually I didn't mention it but Mark Barne's Wikipedia Encyclopedia Personal book came up with a ton of hits.
"It was at the foot of Mount Sinai, in the Convent of St. Catherine, that I discovered the pearl of all my researches. In visiting the library of the monastery, in the month of May, 1844, I perceived in the middle of the great hall a large and wide basket full of old parchments; and the librarian [Kyrillos], who was a man of information, told me that two heaps of papers like these, mouldered by time, had been already committed to the flames. What was my surprise to find amid this heap of papers a considerable number of sheets of a copy of the Old Testament in Greek, which seemed to me to be one of the most ancient that I had ever seen. The authorities of the convent allowed me to possess myself of a third of these parchments, or about forty-three sheets, all the more readily as they were destined for the fire. But I could not get them to yield up possession of the remainder The too lively satisfaction which 1 had displayed had aroused their suspicions as to the value of this manuscript. I transcribed a page of the text of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and enjoined on the monks to take religious care of all such remains which might fall in their way."
Constantin Tischendorf, Codex Sinaiticus: the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Now in the British Museum. Tischendorf's Story and Argument Related by Himself, 2nd impression of the 8th ed. (London: Lutterworth Press, 1934), p24.
However, there are several reasons to doubt his rather fanciful story. If you're interested, the RTA in Logos led me to an article in the Orthodox Theological Review that covers a lot of this ground.
0336.59798657.pdf
I think most "How We Got the Bible" books have that account. I know I read it recently in "How We Got the Bible" by Neil Lightfoot.
I think most "How We Got the Bible" books have that account.
Just as all "How We Got Christmas" books concentrate on Santa.
As an undergrad I never encountered that story. As a graduate my prof suggested that the guy may have been stealing the pages, and was caught.
