Ancient Manuscript Online
This past month, scholars have began to put up portions of one of the most important manucripts of the New Testament, Codex Sinaiticus, at an online website. The webiste has a lot of helpful information about the Greek manuscript collection and any visitor to the site can view and read (if they can read koine Greek) the codex. I am excited to sit down and read some of this codex as one subject of interest to me is textual cristicism. Here is a blurb from the website,
What is Codex Sinaiticus?
Codex Sinaiticus, a manuscript of the Christian Bible written in the middle of the fourth century, contains the earliest complete copy of the Christian New Testament. The hand-written text is in Greek. The New Testament appears in the original vernacular language (koine) and the Old Testament in the version, known as the Septuagint, that was adopted by early Greek-speaking Christians. In the Codex, the text of both the Septuagint and the New Testament has been heavily annotated by a series of early correctors.
The significance of Codex Sinaiticus for the reconstruction of the Christian Bible’s original text, the history of the Bible and the history of Western book-making is immense.
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