Editing Codex Sinaiticus (section)

==== Date ====
The codex can be dated with a reasonable degree of confidence between the early fourth century and the early fifth century.<ref name="nongbri">{{Cite journal | first=Brent | last=Nongbri | title=The Date of Codex Sinaiticus | journal=Journal of Theological Studies | volume=73 | year=2022 | issue=2 | pages=516–534 | doi=10.1093/jts/flac083 | doi-access=free}}</ref> It could not have been written before about 325 because it contains the [[Eusebian Canons]], which is a ''[[terminus post quem]]''. The ''terminus ante quem'' is less certain. Milne and Skeat relied on small cursive notes to assert that the date of the production of the codex was not likely to be much later than about 360.{{r|Metzger-Palaeo}} More recent research suggests that these cursive notes could be as late as the early fifth century.{{r|nongbri}}

Tischendorf theorized that Codex Sinaiticus was one of the [[Fifty Bibles of Constantine|fifty copies of the Bible]] commissioned from [[Eusebius of Caesarea|Eusebius]] by [[Roman emperor]] [[Constantine I (emperor)|Constantine]] after his conversion to Christianity (''De vita Constantini'', IV, 37).<ref>{{Cite book | first=Ira Maurice | last=Price | title=The Ancestry of Our English Bible an Account of Manuscripts, Texts and Versions of the Bible | page=146 | year=1923 | publisher=Sunday School Times Co. | location=Philadelphia | url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029271595/page/n9/mode/2up}}</ref> This hypothesis was supported by [[Pierre Batiffol]].<ref>Pierre Batiffol, ''Codex Sinaiticus'', in DB. 1, 1883–1886.</ref> Biblical scholars [[Caspar René Gregory]] and T.C. Skeat believed that it was already in production when Constantine placed his order, but had to be suspended in order to accommodate different page dimensions.{{r|Skeat-lastchap}}

Biblical scholar [[Frederic G. Kenyon]] argued: "There is not the least sign of either of them ever having been at Constantinople. The fact that Sinaiticus was collated with the manuscript of Pamphilus so late as the sixth century seems to show that it was not originally written at Caesarea".<ref>{{Cite book | first=Frederic G. | last=Kenyon | title=Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament | page=83 | year=1912 | publisher=Macmillan & Co. | location=London | url=https://archive.org/details/handbooktotextua00keny/page/n7/mode/2up}}</ref>