SSCN Voumes 1-10, 1994-2004

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Schedule : The following tentative schedule has been made by the Organizing Committee: 8:30-9:00 a.m. Registration 9:00-10:45 a.m. Introduction and presentations 10:45-11:00 a.m. Break 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Presentations

'http://www.stshenouda.com/society/csymreg2.htm' A nominal registration fee for the Symposium will be charged as follows: Members and Students: $10.00 Non-Members: $15.00 UCLA Students & Faculty N/C Publication of Proceedings: The papers presented at the Symposium will be published in the 7th volume of the Society's bulletin for the year 2000-2001. A final draft of each paper shall be submitted by the presenter, no later than October 31, 2000. first letter of a section, where such letter would be extending over the margin. Several hands are observed in the manuscript, which is not surprising because of its size and early date. The first writer inserted neither pauses nor accents, and used simple punctuation except on rare occasions. Unfortunately, the original codex has come down to us in an incomplete form. At a later date these missing folios were replaced by others. Thus, the first 20 original folios are missing; a part of folio 178, and ten folios after fol. 348. Also missing are the final quires, whose number it is impossible to establish. At this time 759 original folios have survived. Contents: This codex originally included all of the Old and New Testaments. The Old Testament is in the Septuagint Version, except for Daniel, which is taken from the more superior version of Theodotion. It takes up 617 folios. On account of the aforementioned lacuna, the Old Testament text lacks the following passages: Gen., i-xlvi:28; II Kings, ii:5-7,10-13; Pss. cv:27-cxxxvii:6. The order of the books of the Old Testament is as follows: Genesis to Second Paralipomenon (Chronicles), First and second Esdras, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Canticle of Canticles, Job, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Esther, Judith, Tobias, the

12:30-1:15 p.m. Lunch Break 1:15-3:15 p.m. Presentations 3:15-3:30 p.m. Break 3:30-5:00 p.m. Presentations

Registration: All interested persons can pre- register through our website. The address is

Early Codices of the Bible - Codex Vaticanus (by Hany N. Takla)

Introduction: There are three major manuscripts that survived the test of time, preserving for us the crown-jewel of Christian literature, the Holy Bible. They share common characteristics of being written in Greek and have come down to us from Egypt. Among them is Codex Vaticanus which is the most important one. A distinction that is acquired by being the more ancient and most voluminous of all these manuscripts, known as the Uncial Manuscripts. Its name is derived from its final resting place, the archives of Vatican Apostolic Library. The shelf number assigned to this codex is Codex Vaticanus Greek 1209. The following (except for the sections on its affinity to the Coptic version and the new facsimile edition) is primarily based on U. Benigni's Codex Vaticanus Article in The Catholic Encyclopaedia , Volume IV, 1908, Online Edition 1999. Codex Description: This codex is a quarto volume written in uncial (or upright) characters of the fourth century AD. The writing material is folios of fine parchment bound in quires or signatures. Each page is divided into three columns of 40 lines each, with 16 to 18 letters to a line, except in the poetical books, where there are only two columns to a page. There are no capital letters, but at times the scribe(s) used an extended

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