GREAT UNCIAL CODICES
GREAT UNCIAL CODICES
Author’s Note: The great biblical codices of the fourth and fifth centuries provide some of the earliest surviving manuscript evidence for the contents of the Christian Bible.
To begin our review, recall that two Great Uncial Codices date after 400 and so were made during this period. Codex Alexandrinus included 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, Judith, Tobit, and Susanna. Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus included Wisdom and Sirach, but most of the Old Testament is missing, so we do not know what else might have been included.
