And the word was made flash.

The article reports that the British Library has announced plans to digitize the world's oldest Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus. They propose to scan the entire book using a technique called hyperspectral imaging. Not only will this create a high-resolution copy, it will also allow scholars to examine the numerous corrections and overwritings in the text of the codex. According to Scot McKendrick, curator for classical, Byzantine and biblical manuscripts at the British Library, only four researchers in the past 20 years have been allowed access to those parts of the original text that are in London, England. In particular, the digitalization of the Codex Sinaiticus will illuminate the accidents of editing. For, even though many think of the Bible as the word of God, it did have editors. "Sinaiticus", McKendrick says, is considered to have been written by three different hands. One of these was an editor, who corrected the text in numerous places.