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Kenyon, F. G. Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts , 5th ed., rev. A. W. Adams, intro. G. R. Driver. New York, 1958. Lake, H., and K. Lake. Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus et Frederico-Augustanus Lipsiensis. The Old Testament . Reproduced in Facsimile from Photographs, 2 vols. Oxford, 1911-1922. Metzger, B. M. The Early Versions of the New Testament . Oxford, 1977. Milne, H. J. M., and T. C. Skeat. Scribes and Correctors of the Codex Sinaiticus . London, 1938. Moir, J. A. Tischendorf and th Codex Sinaiticus. New Testament Studies 23 (1976):108-115. Scrivener, F. H. A. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament for the Use of Bible Students, 2 vols., 4th ed. E. Miller. London and New York, 1894. Tischendorf, C. von. Bibliorum Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus , 4 vols. St. Petersburg, 1862. Reprint 1969. ______. Codex Sinaiticus. The Ancient Biblical Manuscript Now in the British Museum. Tischendorf's Story Related by Himself. London, 1933. monetary awards for such excellence. In 1943 he was accepted at the Faculty of Engineering of Fouad I University (Now the Cairo University). He graduated in 1948 as a Mechanical Engineer. By that time he lost his mother during his second year of college and his father in his last year. He was employed in the service of the Egyptian Civil Aviation Department until his migration to the US in February 1970. His service in the Coptic Church started during his college days in the Sunday School movement of the 1940s, inspired by Fr. Salib Surial in the Giza Province near Cairo. Later on he served in the Sunday School of Al-Butrusia Church (St. Peter & St. Paul) in Cairo. His domestic responsibilities

in his own hand: `Taken and corrected according to the Hexapla of Origen: Antonius compared it: I, Pamphilus, corrected it'." Pamphilus was, with Eusebius, the founder of the library at Caesarea. Some even conjecture that it is one of the fifty manuscripts which Constantine bade Eusebius of Caesarea to have prepared in AD 331 for the churches of Constantinople; but there is no sign of it having been at Constantinople. Nothing is known of its later history till its discovery by Tischendorf. The text of Codex Sinaiticus bears a very close resemblance to that of Codex Vaticanus, though it cannot be descended from the same immediate ancestor. In general, Codex Vaticanus is placed first in point of purity by contemporary scholars and Codex Sinaiticus next. This is especially true, for the New Testament, of the Gospels. The differences are more frequent in the Old Testament where the codices Sinaiticus and Alexandrinus often agree. BIBLIOGRAPHY Brock, S. P., et al., comps. A Classified Bibliography of the Septuagint . Leiden, 1973. Jellicoe, S. The Septuagint and Modern Study . Oxford, 1968. Introduction: This is a simple eulogy for an ordinary man that did extraordinary things, which left a permanent mark on the history of the Copts in the United States of American in general and in Southern California in particular. Life in Egypt: He was born in a small town near Asyut Egypt in January 27, 1925 to two devout parents of modest means. His father’s clerical work with the Egyptian Railroad saw them moving frequently. As a result he was enrolled for most of his schooling days in British-run dorm schools in Lower Egypt, away from the family, joining them during the holidays and Summer Recesses. He distinguished himself among his peers in Math and Science which gained him praise as well as

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