Expert: Dean Gade - 11/16/2006

Question
You are familiar with the game telephone?
Are the bibles currently on the market today similar to Codex Vaticanus? Or with every writing has the bible morphed?
Is it possible to read CV? Is it on line anywhere  

Answer
I am not familiar with the game telephone.

I know of no Bibles today that are similiar to the Codex Vaticanus.
This manuscript is a very important one used in most translations of the Bible.  It is either second to or equal to the Codex Sinaiticus in translations of today's Bibles.

As can be seen by its name, it has been kept in the Vatican since it was discovered in the 11th century.  As I recall, it is believed to be a copy of a 2nd century manuscript to the Bible.

To read the original text you would have to know Koine Greek and probably go to the Vatican.  However there is a website which says that it has the document:
http://www.biblefacts.org/church/pdf/Codex%20Vaticanus.pdf

Since I use Nestle's "Novem Testamentum Greace", I have the orignial Greek text according to all manuscripts discovered thus far with all the variations from Vaticanus and other manuscripts included.  I am not that much of an inquisitive scholar as to attempt the small print of the original Vaticanus.

ALL translations of the Bible do bear the bias of the translators.  Not that the manuscripts used in the translating are different but just because the nature of words and the extended meaning of each them in any  particular language.  As you see in an "English" dictionary, our words have multilple defininations.  That is true in all languages.  The problem is that ALL the meanings in a foreign language DO NOT  match ALL the meanings of the English word.   So a translator has the choice of picking what they think is closest to their bias.