Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus mostly originating in Saint Catherine’s Monastery,

Sinai Sinai commonly refers to: * Sinai Peninsula, Egypt * Mount Sinai, a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt * Biblical Mount Sinai, the site in the Bible where Moses received the Law of God Sinai may also refer to: * Sinai, South Dakota, a place ...

(Sinai, Georg 34; Tsagareli 81) is an accumulation of sixteen or even eighteen

Christian Palestinian Aramaic Christian Palestinian Aramaic (CPA) was a Western Aramaic dialect used by the Melkite Christian community in Palestine and Transjordan between the fifth and thirteenth centuries. It is preserved in inscriptions, manuscripts (mostly palimpsests ...

palimpsest In textual studies, a palimpsest () is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off so that the page can be reused for another document. Parchment was made of lamb, calf, or kid skin an ...

manuscripts containing

Old Testament The Old Testament (often abbreviated OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites. The ...

Gospel Gospel originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words an ...

and Epistles pericopes of diverse

Lectionaries A lectionary ( la, lectionarium) is a book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Judaic worship on a given day or occasion. There are sub-types such as a "gospel lectionary" or evangeliary, and a ...

, various unidentified homilies and one by

John Chrysostom John Chrysostom (; gr, Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος; 14 September 407) was an important Early Church Father who served as archbishop of Constantinople. He is known for his homilies, preaching and public speaking, his denunciat ...

hagiographic A hagiography (; ) is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions. Early Christian hagiographies might ...

texts as the Life of Pachomios, the Martyrdom of Philemon

Martyrs A martyr (, ''mártys'', "witness", or , ''marturia'', stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external ...

, and the Catecheses by

Cyril of Jerusalem Cyril of Jerusalem ( el, Κύριλλος Α΄ Ἱεροσολύμων, ''Kýrillos A Ierosolýmon''; la, Cyrillus Hierosolymitanus; 313 386 AD) was a theologian of the early Church. About the end of 350 AD he succeeded Maximus as Bishop of ...

.C. Müller-Kessler, Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus. A Collection of Christian Palestinian Aramaic Manuscripts, ''Le Muséon'' 127, 2014, pp. 263–309. The manuscripts are recycled

parchment Parchment is a writing material made from specially prepared untanned skins of animals—primarily sheep, calves, and goats. It has been used as a writing medium for over two millennia. Vellum is a finer quality parchment made from the skins of ...

material that were erased and reused by the tenth century

Georgian Georgian may refer to: Common meanings * Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) ** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group ** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians **Georgian scripts, three scrip ...

scribe

Ioane-Zosime John Zosimus, also known as Ioane-Zosime ( ka, იოანე-ზოსიმე; died c. 990) was a 10th-century Georgian Christian monk, religious writer, and calligrapher. He is known for his liturgical compilations and for composing several ...

for overwriting them with homilies and a Iadgari (979-980 AD). Part of the parchment leaves (Sinai, Geog. 34) had been brought by him from the Monastery of Saint Sabas, south of

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, when he moved to St Catherine’s Monastery and became there librarian.S. P. Brock, Sinai: a Meeting Point of Georgian with Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic, in Jean-Pierre Mahé et al. (eds.) ''The Caucasus between East and West'' (Tbilisi, 2012), pp. 482–494. In the nineteenth century most of the codex was removed from the monastery at two periods. C. Tischendorf took two thirds in 1855 and 1957 with the

Codex Sinaiticus The Codex Sinaiticus (Shelfmark: London, British Library, Add MS 43725), designated by siglum [Aleph] or 01 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 2 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts) ...

to St Peterburg and handed it over to the Imperial Library, now the

National Library of Russia The National Library of Russia (NLR, russian: Российская национальная библиотека}), located in Saint Petersburg, is the first, and one of three national public libraries in Russia. The NLR is currently ranked amo ...

, and the remaining third left on a clandestine route and found its way into various European and later also into US collections, at present in a Norwegian collection. From the New Finds of 1975 in the Monastery of Saint Catherine missing

folio The term "folio" (), has three interconnected but distinct meanings in the world of books and printing: first, it is a term for a common method of arranging sheets of paper into book form, folding the sheet only once, and a term for a book ma ...

s of some of the underlying manuscripts could be retrieved (Sinai, Georgian NF 19; 71).https://sinai.library.ucla.edu Sinai Palimpsest Project

Manuscripts

; CSRa: Lectionary with Old Testament and Epistles pericopes ; CSRb: Lectionary with Old Testament, Gospel and Epistles pericopes ; CSRc: Lectionary with Gospel pericopes ; CSRd: Lectionary with Gospel pericopes ; CSRe: Lectionary with Gospel pericopes ; CSRf: Gospel manuscript ; CSRg: Gospel manuscript ; CSRh: Praxapostolos (Acts of the Apostles) ; CSRi: Catecheses of Cyril of Jerusalem ; CSRj: Unknown homily (Ezechiel 3:18; 33:13); John Chrysostom’s homily of the Prodigal Son ; CSRk: Unknown homily (1 Kingdoms 17) ; CSRl: Vita of Pachomios (Paralipomena) ; CSRm: Martyrdom of Philemon ; CSRn: Unidentified ; CSRo: Unidentified ; CSRp: Unidentified ; SRq Dormition of the Mother of God

Transitus Mariae The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII defined it in 1950 in his apostolic constitution ''Munificentissimus Deus'' as follows: We proclaim and define it to be a dogma revealed by Go ...

; SRr Dormition of Mother of God

(unclear classification)Sinai Palimpsest Project
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References

Text editions

* Jan Pieter Nicolaas Land, ''Anecdota Syriaca'' IV (Leiden, 1875), pp. 177–233 atin 103–224 yropalestinian pls. I–VI. * Hugo Duensing, ''Christlich-palästinisch-aramäische Texte und Fragmente'' (Göttingen, 1906). * Hugo Duensing, ''Nachlese christlich-palästinisch aramäischer Fragmente'', ''NAWG'', phil.-hist. Kl. 5 (Göttingen, 1955). * Hugo Duensing, ''Neue christlich-palästinische-aramäische Fragmente'', ''NAWG'', phil.-hist. Kl. 9 (Göttingen, 1944). * Christa Müller-Kessler and Michael Sokoloff, ''The Christian Palestinian Aramaic Old Testament and Apocrypha'', Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic, I (Groningen, 1997). * Alain Desreumaux, ''Codex sinaiticus Zosimi rescriptus'', Histoire du Texte Biblique 3 (Lausanne, 1997). * Christa Müller-Kessler and Michael Sokoloff, ''The Christian Palestinian Aramaic New Testament Version from the Early Period. Gospels'', Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic, IIA (Groningen, 1998). * Christa Müller-Kessler and Michael Sokoloff, ''The Christian Palestinian Aramaic New Testament Version from the Early Period. Acts of the Apostles and Epistles, Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic'' IIB (Groningen, 1998). * Christa Müller-Kessler and Michael Sokoloff, ''The Catechism of Cyril of Jerusalem in the Christian Palestinian Aramaic Version'', A Corpus of Christian Palestinian Aramaic, V (Groningen, 1999). * Christa Müller-Kessler, Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus. A Collection of Christian Palestinian Aramaic Manuscripts, ''Le Muséon'' 127, 2014, pp. 263–309.

External links

Sinai Palimpsest Project
at the Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai.

at the National Library of Russia, St Petersburg. 6th-century biblical manuscripts Saint Catherine's Monastery Palimpsests New Testament apocrypha

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