World's oldest Bible goes ONLINE

Don't worry, we won't make anyone quiz in the original Hebrew or Greek. But soon you *WILL* be able to view the world's oldest Bible online which will allow anyone to explore the history of scripture.

The remaining fragments of the Codex Sinaiticus, which are stored in Britain, Russia, Germany and a monastery in Egypt's Sinai Desert, will be scanned and made available for viewing for the first time since their discovery.

"I think it's just fantastic that thanks to technology we can now make the oldest cultural artifacts -- ones that were once so precious you couldn't show them to anyone -- accessible to everyone, in really high quality," Ulrich Johannes Schneider, director of Leipzig University Library, which holds part of the manuscript, told Reuters.

A preview, containing the Book of Psalms and the Gospel of Mark will be put online on Thursday and the full text should be available by next July.

This is one of the great ways that the digital age can be useful in harkening back to past ages and helping us to understand what came before.