As most of my readers probably already know, the website dedicated to the codex Sinaiticus was launched recently. You can go there by clicking here. The website is gorgeous. The designers did a fantastic job with the look, and it is very accessible as well. The manuscript viewer did well on Firefox 3 (though Eric at Archaic Christianity had some issues).

For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, here is the text of their “about” page:

“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.”

Included books at the time of this post:
1 Chronicles
2 Esdras
Esther
Tobit
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Psalms
Mark