Codex Sinaiticus

I heard this morning on our Christian AM station that there is a new website for the oldest existing copy of our Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus. Go HERE to see the website for yourself and to browse through digital pictures of the actual manuscript. I love the fact that we can know for certain that what we have in our Bible is truly God's Word. So much verifies the veracity and the integrity of our modern translation which we posses and read.

Here is a brief description from the website:

Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. 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.

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.