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Jesus's Wife Resurrected from Dead
INTRODUCTIONEight of the eleven articles in the most recent issue of the Harvard Theological Review discuss the authenticity of the so-called Gospel of Jesus Wife (GJW), which Karen King publicized...
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Demotic Gospel of Thomas
On page 178 of his Gospel of Jesus’s Wife (GJW) rebuttal, Leo Depuydt informed the reader of a parallel incident from 1990, which never made headlines in North America. In this case, someone forged and...
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Announcement from Leo Depuydt on Jesus's Wife
April 16, 2014Bedtime story for the budding little grammarian (and for all those eternally young of spirit). Set in larger font to accommodate the unformed inquisitive mind. (PDF)The Papyrus Fragment...
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Hans-Ulrich Laukamp and the GJW
Mark Goodacre has posted on a Livescience article which claims to have invalidated part of Karen´s King reconstruction of the modern history of the Gospel of Jesus´s Wife. In particular, the article...
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Jesus had an ugly sister-in-law
recto, Jn 5:26-30Through Gregg Schwendner and Malcom Choat, I have just become aware of something that I should have seen much earlier. I read all of the Harvard Theological Review articles about the...
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Live Update from the Pericope of the Adulteress Conference
This is a quick live update from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminar hosting the Pericpoe Adulterae symposium. Image HT: Jacob CeroneRight now Jennifer Knust is presenting her paper, "Neither Add...
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The forgery of the Lycopolitan Gospel of John
IntroductionI am grateful for the input that Alin Suciu, Mark Goodacre and many others have offered concerning the newly available Gospel of John fragment. I will use the present page to post...
View ArticleRodger's New Novel, The Sign of the Dolphin
My new novel, The Sign of the Dolphin, the second volume in the SCRIBES series,is now available in both electronic and printed form through Amazon.com. It wrestles with the problem of the text of the...
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Breaking News on the First-Century(?) Fragment of Mark
Over at Brice C. Jones' blog there is more news about the alleged first-century fragment of Mark, and many other recently discovered manuscripts (a 38 page manuscript of 1 or 2 Corinthians, the oldest...
View ArticlePseudo-Gospel of Jesus Wife as Case Study
In his article in the Wall Street Journal entitled 'How the 'Jesus' Wife' Hoax Fell Apart', Jerry Pattengale concludes with an interesting comment: 'this episode is not totally without merit. It will...
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Something odd in ms 2892
Darrell, to distract us from other matters, asked a question about an odd feature in 2892 (from the comments to the previous post).The second to last line ends Colossians 2:12. But then the next line...
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Article and Reviews in TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism vol. 19...
Several new reviews have been published in the current volume of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism vol. 19 (2014). As the associate editor I can say that we are working with several submitted...
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Even more corrections in Codex Bezae?
No one is waiting for yet another set of corrections in Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis, but in the recent transcriptions it seems that something has been left out. For example here in Mark 5:8 where there...
View ArticleLaunch of SBL Text-Critical Resources Web Page
Email from SBL:Texts lie at the heart of biblical studies and the related fields its members research and teach. It is with this core interest in mind that the Society of Biblical Literature has...
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An Evil Conference at St Mary's in Twickenham
Last year Chris Keith, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at St Mary's University, Twickenham, invited me to present a paper at the conference "Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Early...
View ArticleCongratulations to Maurice Robinson
Our very warm congratulations to Maurice who has been promoted to Research Professor of New Testament Studies at SEBTS (see here). Bruce Ashford, provost of Southeastern, said, “We are happy to allow...
View ArticleHeracleon on John: Bibliography
Heracleon wrote the earliest surviving commentary on any portion of the New Testament, and is an important witness to the state of the text of John in the second century. Here is some bibliography to...
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Manuel de critique textuelle du Nouveau Testament (ed. Amphoux)
A new French introduction to New Testament textual criticism, edited by Christian-Bernard Amphoux, has just been published by Éditions Safran, Manuel de critique textuelle du Nouveau Testament....
View ArticleConference: From Egypt to Manchester: Unravelling the John Rylands Papyrus...
Roberta Mazza, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History and John Rylands Research Institute Research Fellow, is organizing a conference on 4-6 September at John Rylands Library in Manchester which...
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I am running a promotional on my novels featuring the principles and practice of New Testament Textual Criticism this week. The Kindle edition of THE SCRIBES, Vol. 1 is free. The Kindle edition of THE...
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