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“[Jesus] Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Messiah?” (Matt 27:17)
In this clip I explain for laymen what textual criticism is about (in Swedish with Norwegian subtitles), referring to the example of a textual problem in Matt 27:16-17 concerning the name of the...
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Text-Types Conference
Yesterday afternoon we wrapped up our first overseas Text & Canon Institute Colloquium which was on the topic of text-types in NT textual criticism. We had a very good time over two days discussing...
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The Women Behind Your Critical Editions
Today, in cooperation with the INTF in Münster, we co-publish an important post written by Greg Paulson and Katie Leggett in order to highlight some of the women behind the critical editions in wide...
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Notable Textual Changes in the NRSVue NT
Produced by the National Council of Churches, the NRSV has long been the Bible of mainline Protestant denominations, those in the ecumenical movement, and the wider academy. It has never really been...
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Solving a Puzzle in P136
The following is a blog post I first wrote while on sabbatical in 2022 in Wake Forest. While there, I spent a nice afternoon with Libbie Schrader Polczer at the wonderful David M. Rubenstein Rare Book...
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The Epistle of Jude: Its Text and Transmission as E-book
My monograph The Epistle of Jude: Its Text and Transmission is now available as an e-book for the first time through Amazon (Kindle). Since the publisher went out of business and the dsitributor...
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Book Notices
Following Tommy’s post about an older book newly released as an ebook, I thought I would share some of the books that have recently come to my attention that might be of interest to our readers. I’ve...
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14th Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism
Hugh Houghton sends word that the call for papers it out for the next Birmingham Colloquium. I wish I could say I have been to one of these but I’ve never been able to make it. I’ve heard they’re...
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John Broadus (1827–1895) on New Testament Textual Criticism
Many years ago (when I was still in seminary), I spent some time looking into John Broadus’ approach to textual criticism. Nothing ever materialized (I became too busy), but I still think it would be a...
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The Epistle of Jude as Digital Logos Research Edition
Recently I announced that my book and text-critical edition, The Epistle of Jude: Its Text and Transmission is available as e-book through Amazon. Now it can also be pre-ordered as a Logos Research...
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A quick note on the blog dinner
A few of you have asked me about our annual blog dinner at SBL. After reaching out to my cobloggers, the lot has fallen on me to find a place. I’ve reached out to a bunch of restaurants to see which is...
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2024 Blog Dinner Tickets On Sale
I am pleased to announce that the 2024 ETC Blog Dinner is a go! Thanks to generous support from CSNTM it will also be much more affordable (hurray!). This year’s event will be Sunday night at 7:00pm at...
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ETC lunch at ETS
For a few years now, we’ve had an informal lunch at ETS in order to be able to get together with people who are not staying for SBL and as a result can’t come to our annual blog dinner. Everyone...
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New Volume of TC is Out
Volume 29 (2024) of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism has just been published. This volume contains five articles, four notes and one "pedagogical note" (a new feature). The volume is not yet...
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2 Free Grad Student Tickets for the Blog Dinner
Being a grad student is tough. Money is often very tight and, if you can manage to get to SBL, there often isn't much in the coffer left for meals. But, thanks to Daniel Sharp, I have two complimentary...
View ArticleA major new article on the Distigmai in Codex Vaticanus
Just in time for Christmas: Nehemia Gordon, Patrick Andrist, Oliver Hahn, Pavlos D. Vasileiadis, Nelson Calvillo, and Ira Rabin, ‘Did the Original Scribes Write the Distigmai in Codex Vaticanus B of...
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1QIsaa and Shifting Categories
Sean McDowell and I recently had a conversation about 1QIsaa. You can access the conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90_Mpiz1ons&t=333sI repeat some of my points here along with some...
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The Top Ten Essential Books in NT Textual Criticism—According to AI
AI destroying the joy of human creativity, as drawn by AITommy's list of top ten essential works in NT textual criticism has had a very good run on this website. It remains our most read blog post...
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Resolving the Mystery of GA 2776
I’m in the process of working through all the manuscripts in the Liste tagged as containing Pauline content. One of these mss is GA 2766. The Liste describes the contents of this ms as “aprK.” It dates...
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An Excellent (Relatively) New Book on Palimpsests
I've been rather quiet over the past few years, due to the arduous (and occasionally enjoyable) task of editing the ECM Revelation, which was finally published last year. Another little project I've...
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Appreciating 11Q5: A Comparative Look at the Great Psalms Scroll
11Q5 (11QPsa), known as the Great Psalms Scroll, is on display at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA. This exhibition has been made available by the Israelite Antiquities Authority and the...
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New York Times Review of Westcott-Hort
Exactly 143 years ago to the day, America's paper of record (aka The New York Times) published a review of a recently published introduction to a Greek New Testament by two Cambridge scholars named...
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Correcting a Dead Sea Scroll
Correcting a digital text today is simple and neat. I simply highlight the text to be deleted and press my “delete” button on my keyboard. When I notice a mistake right away, I can simply press the...
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Darrell Post on a New Lectionary Group
The following is a guest post by Darrell Post who has been researching John 11 for many years (see here and here and here). In this connection I also want to mention that Post has done a great job with...
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GA 2136, Another Copy of a Printed Edition
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m in the process of working through all the Pauline manuscripts in the Liste, in order to get a precise count of which manuscripts contain some portion of Romans. Of...
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