HSM · Manuscripts
Codex Sinaiticus
Contains the earliest surviving complete New Testament and substantial portions of the Greek Old Testament.
Manuscript or textual tradition
- Type
- Individual parchment codex
- Approximate period
- 4th century CE
- Language
- Greek
- Textual tradition
- Greek Christian Bible: Septuagint and New Testament
- Witnesses and designations
- Codex Sinaiticus (א / 01)
How to investigate
Its readings and corrections illuminate copying and revision; compare it with other witnesses rather than treating age alone as decisive.