Codex Sinaiticus on sale
Just a quick note for the bibliophiles out there: Hendrickson’s beautiful facsimile of the Codex Sinaiticus is now on sale for $200 from CBD. (If you call up CBD, they’ll offer you a coupon for free shipping too.) This is a real discount – the best price I have seen previously on this volume is around $600 (the list price is $800).
This is a superior volume which offers the closest experience that most of us can have with the original text. Of course, images of the Codex Sinaiticus are available online at an outstanding web site. Still, nothing can compare with the actual experience of holding the printed page.
Of course, this work will be of interest to those who are interested in the early Christian Bible, as well as in Septuagint studies. But this huge volume (21.2 x 18.7 x 6.5 inches) is not only a reproduction of a central manuscript of Late Antiquity; Codex Sinaiticus is a key artifact in the history of Western book-making.
BLT 
Thanks, Theophrastus:
I won’t be buying it but I will most certainly check out that web site. (In fact, I have already started.)
And since I don’t know the Greek, the NETS is the best available English translation of the Septuagint I take it?
Merry Christmas,
Russ
Russ, the NETS is my favorite translation of the Septuagint — it can be improved in many ways, but I know of nothing better. One of the best features about it is that you can read it for free online.
No Christmas sale on Codex Vaticanus facsimile. Wonder if there’s an installment plan?
Well, that Vaticanus is a limited edition that is pretty fancy. If you want to see photos of it along with a description, look here:
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Brill/Eerdmans also published a rather nice facsimile of the Leningrad Codex that I use all the time (but is now out of print).
I should have mentioned that there is a companion volume to the Sinaiticus: Codex Sinaiticus: The Story of the World’s Oldest Bible. It is well illustrated.
Hoping Logos’ Lexham English Septuagint gets released for free in bible software like the SBL Greek NT and Lexham English Bible. The more Septuagint tools, the better.
I don’t suggest wagering money on a free release!
That was funny!
🙂
As a good Southern Baptist I don’t gamble. I don’t dance either, but that’s more because I’m so bad a dancer.
Bought a copy of the “Codex Sinaiticus” from antiquarian bookseller yesterday only to have it stolen from my car the same day. I’m desperate to find another copy, and hope the I can buy a replacement by taking advantage of the offer above. PLEASE HELP.!!!