What is the oldest Christian Bible?

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That is the Latin Vulgate, compiled by St. Jerome for the Catholic Church in the 4th century. Many traditional Catholics regard this version the best one extant to this day. Of course, it is in Latin.

There is an English transliteration of the Vulgate called the Real Douay-Rheims Bible, recently available (as opposed to an earlier "Douay-Rheims" translation which is more popularly known.) It has an interesting history and was transliterated from the Latin by a linguistics expert. It is not well-known, however, and may be hard to find. Not as hard as learning Latin, though!

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The oldest surviving text of the Christian bible with the pre-Christian text commonly the old testament is the Greek Codex Sinaiticus least 1,600 years old but because it forms a vital link in our catalog of Bible manuscripts. It was the complete bible, but now a few pages are missing. other text are older but not accompany with other text e.g., John Rylands Library there is a papyrus fragment, P32, is from the third century, the oldes known christian bible text is the Papyrus Rylands 457 (P52), containing John 18:31-33, 37, 38, and preserved at the John Rylands Library, Manchester, England. As to its bearing on the tradition of John's writership at the end of the first century, the late Sir Frederic Kenyon said in his book The Bible and Modern Scholarship, 1949, page 21: "Small therefore as it is, it suffices to prove that a manuscript of this Gospel was circulating, presumably in provincial Egypt where it was found, about the period A.D. 130-150.

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