NA28 teacher outsmarted by NA27 student
This morning I was teaching through the Greek text of James 1 and thinking about the relation of 1:8 to 1:7.μὴ γὰρ οἰέσθω ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖνος ὅτι λήμψεταί τι παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου,ἀνὴρ δίψυχος, ἀκατάστατος ἐν...
View ArticleDay Conference in Papyrology and Early Christianity/Biblical Studies
Day Conference in Papyrology and Early Christianity/Biblical StudiesWednesday 7th November 2012Tyndale House is pleased to host a day conference featuring research papers on a variety of topics...
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SBL ETC Dinner
I am finalizing plans for a dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe in Chicago for Monday at 8pm. I recommend that we congregate at the end of the Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds session (W181a -...
View ArticlePanel Review of SBLGNT Published
A new article has just been published in the current issue if the TC Journal: Michael Holmes, David Parker, Harold Attridge, and Klaus Wachtel, The SBL Greek New Testament: Papers from the 2011 SBL...
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SBL Supersale on Jude
Greetings from the SBL Annual Meeting in Chicago! I just delivered my presentation on the Coherence Based Genealogical Method as a tool for explaining textual changes.For those of our readers who are...
View ArticleReflections on SBL Chicago 2012
Back from SBL where I had a great time in Chicago, with many positive experiences, rather than one overwhelming highlight. In the hope that it might draw out other reflections more profound than this...
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"Misquoting Manuscripts? The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture Revisited"
I have published a new essay, "Misquoting Manuscripts? The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture Revisited" in the following volume:Magnus Zetterholm and Samuel Byrskog, eds., The Making of Christianity:...
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P. Oxy 5072 another non-canonical gospel fragment
In the most recent copy of Early Christianity Juan Chapa discusses 'A newly published "gospel fragment"' (EC 3 (2012), 381-389), i.e. P. Oxy 5072 which is published in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. 76...
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The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research
Just before SBL (while my desk was tidy) my copy of this book arrived: The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis. Second Edition (eds M.W. Holmes &...
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Aberdeen PhD Stipends
Authority and Texts: Concepts and Use"What constitutes authority and provides authenticity to texts and what is the role of textual criticism? How should authoritative texts (including religious,...
View ArticleHurtado on The Early Text of the New Testament
Larry Hurtado has had time to work his way through the 21 contributions of C.E. Hill & M.J. Kruger (eds), The Early Text of the New Testament(Oxford: OUP, 2012), and concludes his positive...
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The death of the Sumerian language
Livescience has an article which relays information reported at the American Geophysical Union about the collapse of Sumerian civilization. Apparently, centuries of massive drought are not a good...
View ArticleBiblia Arabica
[ht Jack Sasson from Sabine Schmidtke]“Biblia Arabica: The Bible in Arabic among Jews, Christians and Muslims”becomes the first project in the humanities to be awarded the DFG’s DIP(German Israeli...
View ArticleThe 10 commandments go digital
Cambridge press release about the Nash Papyrus, etc. here. [ht Alison Gray]
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Codex Bezae Goes Digital
The digital Codex Bezae has been released today in Cambridge Digital Library along with transcriptions of the International Greek New Testament Project (IGNTP). There is also a description of the codex...
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New Image of Manuscript of Paul
Only today I became aware of this article in the Financial Times Magazine on work being done at St Catherine's at Mt Sinai. Not only is it worth the read, but it has a beautifully worked photo of a...
View ArticleP46 Coming to the iPad!
I came across this notice from Brice Jones at the Quanternion:The University of Michigan Papyrology Collection is soon to release an iPad (and presumably iPhone and iPod) app that features images and...
View ArticleElliott reviews Wallace on Ehrman
Keith Elliott has reviewed a collection of essays edited by Daniel Wallace entitled Revisiting the Corruption of the New Testament: Manuscript, Patristic, and Apocryphal Evidence here.To give you a...
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BL puts Alexandrinus NT online
[ht David Parker]Christmas is here (with this and Bezae online it's almost like Christmas 1933) The British Library announces here that it has put images of the NT of Codex Alexandrinus online here For...
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