The term “Vatican” was utilized during the Roman Republic to refer to the Ager Vaticanus, a wetland area situated on the western side of the Tiber River, opposite Rome. This area is bordered ...

The OT of the most ancient surviving Christian Bible manuscripts - Codex Vaticanus (4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (4th century) and Codex Alexandrinus (5th century) - are Greek Septuagint text.

Among these oldest existing Bibles the following are the more important: 1. The Codex Vaticanus, dating from the first half of the fourth century and preserved in the Vatican Library. It ...