One of the oldest books in existence, hailing from Egypt at the dawn of Christianity, is heading to the auction block at Christie’s, where it could sell for between $2.6 and $3.8 million. - REUTERS
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00:00 I find them and then I just, I just,
00:02 (indistinct)
00:04 Yeah, so we've got all of the,
00:06 okay, so that's Jonah the prophet.
00:07 So Jonah starts.
00:09 It's right at that period when,
00:18 that transitional period when papyrus scroll
00:21 starts turning into codex form.
00:23 So books as we know them today.
00:24 And what we have in this book
00:27 is the earliest known texts of two books of the Bible.
00:31 So the earliest known text of the first epistle of Peter
00:34 and the earliest known text of the book of Jonah.
00:37 So crucially important from a textual perspective,
00:41 from a perspective of Bible studies.
00:43 You think about the timeframe and the immediacy
00:46 of those very, very early Christians
00:49 to the period of Jesus Christ.
00:51 You have, it's only a couple of hundred years away.
00:56 And they're learning how to celebrate Easter.
01:01 And this is a witness to that, to the earliest ritual.
01:09 - Maybe you can look up early copies.