Codex Sinaiticus now available online.

[shackleton]

Oldest New Testament Bible heads into cyberspace - Yahoo! News

 

[CalvinandHodges]

Thanks for the info. I wonder if this is the raw text, or, if they cleaned it up?

 

[Augusta]

They say there on the site "Its heavily corrected text is of outstanding importance for the history of the Bible and the manuscript - the oldest substantial book to survive Antiquity - is of supreme importance for the history of the book."

What do they mean by that?

 

[JohnGill]

They say there on the site "Its heavily corrected text is of outstanding importance for the history of the Bible and the manuscript - the oldest substantial book to survive Antiquity - is of supreme importance for the history of the book."

What do they mean by that?

I think they're referring to all the correctors throughout its history. There were quite a few of them. H.J.M. Milne & T.C. Skeat of the British Museum wrote a book detailing this in Scribes and Correctors of Codex Sinaiticus (London, 1938)

It's really only useful for historical purposes.