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These two texts, though they comprise the oldest complete New Testaments, were written hundreds of years after the oldest extant manuscripts.  Accordingly, virtually all modern translations of the Bible use the older manuscripts.  Only the [[English Revised Version]] and [[American Standard Version]], each written around 1900, used the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus.

These two texts, though they comprise the oldest complete New Testaments, were written hundreds of years after the oldest extant manuscripts.  Accordingly, virtually all modern translations of the Bible use the older manuscripts.  Only the [[English Revised Version]] and [[American Standard Version]], each written around 1900, used the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus.

The website for the Codex Sinaiticus claims that is the oldest substantial book to survive from Antiquity.<ref>http://www.codex-sinaiticus.net/en/]]</ref>

The website for the Codex Sinaiticus claims that is the oldest substantial book to survive from Antiquity.<ref>http://www.codex-sinaiticus.net/en/</ref>

:: ''Dates from the mid fourth century and originally included both Old and [[New Testament]]s plus the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas, all in [[Greek]]. It was found in [[Egypt]], in  a monastery library on the slopes of [[Mount Sinai]] (St. Catherine's Monastery), by Constantin von Tischendorf in 1859, and brought to St. Petersburg. In 1933, it was sold to the [[British Museum]] in [[London]] where it currently resides.''

:: ''Dates from the mid fourth century and originally included both Old and [[New Testament]]s plus the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas, all in [[Greek]]. It was found in [[Egypt]], in  a monastery library on the slopes of [[Mount Sinai]] (St. Catherine's Monastery), by Constantin von Tischendorf in 1859, and brought to St. Petersburg. In 1933, it was sold to the [[British Museum]] in [[London]] where it currently resides.''