Kirsopp Lake RIPS the destructive binding done by Douglas Cockerell

Steven Avery

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WIP - discussion in the Reviews and Journals c. 1940

Review of Scribes and Correctors of the Codex Sinaiticu (1942)
Kirsopp Lake
https://www.jstor.org/stable/264376

Harold Idris Bell - 1942 - defends binding by Cockerell properly ripped by Kirsopp Lake
https://purebibleforum.com/index.ph...ockerell-properly-ripped-by-kirsopp-lake.730/

Harold Idris Bell gave a milquetoast defense of the binding.

A Reply to the editor of "Classical Philology" (April, 1842)
Harold Idris Bell
https://www.jstor.org/stable/264224?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
 
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Steven Avery

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CARM
'https://forums.carm.org/threads/is-the-worlds-oldest-bible-a-fake.11375/page-11#post-915264
https://forums.carm.org/threads/the...egarding-sinaiticus.11880/page-10#post-916785

1938 American Archivist
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b666469&view=1up&seq=32&q1=parchment
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The Codex Sinaiticus , famous Biblical manuscript for which the British Museum recently paid the Soviet government the fabulous sum of £ 100,000 , was sadly in need of repair when brought to England . It was in an old tin box, wrapped in cotton wool, its pages torn and crumpled, and many of them loose. The delicate task of restoration was finally intrusted to Mr. Douglas Cockerell, who immediately set to work to determine the binding which would be most durable and at the same time most appropriate to the manuscript. The
 
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