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Photo credits (clockwise from left): Werner Braun; Courtesy of the Codex Sinaiticus Project, British Library; Jim Haberman.

ON THE COVER: Codex Sinaiticus, which may be the world’s oldest Bible, lay for centuries at St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai. In “Who Owns the Codex Sinaiticus?”, Hershel Shanks investigates how this priceless manuscript was taken from the monks and came to be divided among four different institutions.