These days, we almost never see ancient Biblical manuscripts printed in their entirety. This is sad, because a critical apparatus is never as informative as the whole text.

Fortunately, things were different a century ago, when the first great find of Egyptian manuscripts, the Freer collection, was made. The most famous of these is the Washington Codex W of the gospels, but it wasn't the only important one. This manuscript, of the Septuagint version of Deuteronomy and Joshua, was also very important -- after all, it joined the codices Vaticanus and Alexandrinus as the main early Greek manuscripts of the Septuagint.

For students of the Septuagint, then, this volume -- a full collation against the edition of Swete (basically, Vaticanus), with analysis of the text -- is vital. One may disagree with the way editor Sanders analyzes the text; while very, very detail-oriented, he clearly didn't know much about statistics. But the data is there. If you want to redo the results yourself, you can.

Perhaps that should be a hint for today's manuscript scholars. ( )