The Codex Sinaiticus

Here is the website of the Codex Sinaiticus, the world's oldest surviving version of the Bible, now available online. As they describe it:

Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. Its heavily corrected text is of outstanding importance for the history of the Bible and the manuscript – the oldest substantial book to survive Antiquity – is of supreme importance for the history of the book

This is a most fascinating website for anyone interested in seeing one of the earliest versions of the Bible we have. Just browsing through some of the sections, I'm amazed. The only issue I have is with the translation to English. I use a particular verse from the New Testament as my guide as to the correctness of the translation. That is Hebrews 11:1. This version has it translated to English as:

11:1 And faith is confidence as to things hoped for, conviction as to things not seen

That's different from the KJV, which has it as:

1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Which is slightly different than what Joseph Smith translated it as:

1. Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen

The LDS Footnotes relates to the greek definition of the word, and they give several: "assurance, basis, foundation."

The NRSV has it as follows:

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen

Essentially, what it comes down to, for the Codex Sinaiticus to be of true useful service to one, one needs to learn ancient Greek and Hebrew