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Sinaiticus and Simonides
By James Snapp Jr.
Part Two
Ten Reasons Why Sinaiticus Was Not Made By Simonides
Page 7, Reason 4
"Codex Sinaiticus Has Arabic Notes. As David Parker observes in his book on Codex Sinaiticus, Arabic notes appear in Codex Sinaiticus at Isaiah 1:10, and at Zechariah 14:8, and in parts of Revelation. The scenario described by Simonides provides no motive for the creation of this feature (nor is there evidence that Simonides knew Arabic when he was 19 or 20 years old.) One of the Arabic notes, as David Parker has pointed out, probably refers to the approach of seven thousand years of earth's existence, as calculated via the Byzantine Anno Mundi calendar, which reckoned that the universe was created in 5,509 B.C. The completion of 7,000 years was thus expected to come in the late 1400's, and the fall of Constantinople in 1453 probably caused the Arabic-writing annotator to interpret part of Revelation chapter 8 (by which the note appears in the margin) as a prophecy about Islamic conquests, the star in 8:10 being called, in the note, a star of the Arabs, after which he expected persecution to begin. If Codex Sinaiticus was extant in the second half of the 1400's, as the existence of this note implies,
then it cannot be the work of Simonides in the 1800's.
https://www.academia.edu/32044905/Sinaiticus_and_Simonides
By James Snapp Jr.
Part Two
Ten Reasons Why Sinaiticus Was Not Made By Simonides
Page 7, Reason 4
"Codex Sinaiticus Has Arabic Notes. As David Parker observes in his book on Codex Sinaiticus, Arabic notes appear in Codex Sinaiticus at Isaiah 1:10, and at Zechariah 14:8, and in parts of Revelation. The scenario described by Simonides provides no motive for the creation of this feature (nor is there evidence that Simonides knew Arabic when he was 19 or 20 years old.) One of the Arabic notes, as David Parker has pointed out, probably refers to the approach of seven thousand years of earth's existence, as calculated via the Byzantine Anno Mundi calendar, which reckoned that the universe was created in 5,509 B.C. The completion of 7,000 years was thus expected to come in the late 1400's, and the fall of Constantinople in 1453 probably caused the Arabic-writing annotator to interpret part of Revelation chapter 8 (by which the note appears in the margin) as a prophecy about Islamic conquests, the star in 8:10 being called, in the note, a star of the Arabs, after which he expected persecution to begin. If Codex Sinaiticus was extant in the second half of the 1400's, as the existence of this note implies,
then it cannot be the work of Simonides in the 1800's.
https://www.academia.edu/32044905/Sinaiticus_and_Simonides
