Codex Sinaiticus almost lost in history except for one man in search of truth
In 1844, German biblical scholar Constantin von Tischendorf traveled to the remote St. Catherine’s Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, where his obsessive hunt for ancient manuscripts took a dramatic turn. While visiting the monastery’s library, he noticed a large basket filled with old parchment fragments that a librarian casually mentioned were destined to be burned as fuel, just as two…












