Sinaiticus’s B scribe(s)

On Academia.edu, Dan Batovici has posted an uncorrected proof of his essay “Two B Scribes in Codex Sinaiticus?” BASP 54 (2017). According to the abstract,

The history of scribal hand identification in Codex Sinaiticus聽is聽a fairly complicated one. The most聽recent identification, splitting the work聽of Tischendorf鈥檚 scribe B in B1 and B2, was attempted by Amy Myshrall in聽a 2015 contribution, as a result of the work聽on the Codex Sinaiticus digitizing聽project completed in 2009. This article will assess the argument proposed聽by聽Amy Myshrall for distinguishing the two new scribes, and it argues that聽there is not enough reason to adopt the newly proposed distinction.

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July 20, 2017 路 1 min 路 J. David Stark

Sinaiticus Facsimile Sale

Codex Sinaiticus Facsimile

Codex Sinaiticus Facsimile

It’s still on the pricey side, but CBD currently has the Hendrickson facsimile of Codex Sinaiticus on sale for $499, $300 off the normal retail price. According to CBD’s product page,

Hendrickson Publishers, in conjunction with the British Library, is now releasing a limited number of full color facsimiles of the entire Codex Sinaiticus. This edition includes both the Old and New Testaments, represented by “life size” pages (13.5" x 16.5").

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November 9, 2012 路 1 min 路 J. David Stark