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Online Images of NT manuscripts in Oxford
Oxford Bodl., Barocci 3 (G-A 314):Oxford Bodl., Barocci 28 (G-A 2101): (XIII; Gospels with Comm.; on paper) Oxford Bodl., Barocci 29 (G-A 46):(c. 1300; Gospels)Oxford Bodl., Barocci 31 (G-A 45): (XIII;...
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Fighting over Recto and Verso
Over the recent weeks I have been twice in a skirmish on the correct use of the terms recto and verso, and I blame the dark days of early papyrology for this (there are articles on this topic; I leave...
View ArticleStephen Emmel on The Fake Harvard John Fragment
Building on Christian Askeland's argument that the Harvard Coptic John Fragment was textually dependent on Thompson's 1924 publication of the Qau codex (see The forgery of the Lycopolitan gospel of...
View ArticleAncient Greek Lexica
We know that modern lexica are important for providing information on how modern scholars understand the meaning of words. And we know that ancient lexica are even more useful for providing information...
View ArticleA Greek NT Reunited (GA 699)
Interesting blog post over at the British Library on GA 699 and the separate histories of its two parts (with nice pictures).This is a notable NT manuscript partly on the grounds that it was...
View ArticleBirmingham Colloquium
Hugh Houghton writes:This is advance notice to colleagues and attendees of former colloquia that the Ninth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament will be held in Birmingham...
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A Beautiful Error in Aland's Synopsis Quattor Evangeliorum
In Kurt Aland's Synopsis [I am using the 4. korrigierter Druck 2005] a gorgeous error appears. In Mark 8:25 the text as printed reads και ενεβλεπεν τηλαυγως απαντα, 'and he saw everything clearly'....
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On-line Lecture "Variants of Evil in the NT"
Chris Keith (Historical Jesus blog) has uploaded my lecture "Variants of Evil in the New Testament" from the conference on Evil in Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. Thanks Chris for...
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Why It Is Helpful to Include Accents in Transcripts
A real summer topic (with an apparatus error in NA28 thrown in for good measure). When transcribing a New Testament Greek manuscript for exercise, I encourage my students to include accentuation and...
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Greek Palaeography in Oxford
This is a guest post by Peter Gurry who just came home from the fifth Summer School of Greek Palaeography in Oxford:
View ArticlePostdoctoral job opening at ITSEE in Birmingham
Hugh Houghton who leads the COMPAUL project at ITSEE in Birmingham announces a job opening:There is a vacancy for a postdoctoral research fellow to work on the COMPAUL project at the University of...
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Doodling in New Testament manuscripts: 0189
Whilst preparing the slides for my paper at the BNTC conference for this coming Friday, I was delighted to find the oldest manuscript of Acts GA 0189 online. Normally I have some inkling of what is...
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A variant unique to cited text
When a substantial chunk of the Bible is cited in some ancient work and within the manuscript tradition of this work new variants happen, do they count for anything? Well, at the very least they give...
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An Amulet Referring to the Last Supper in John Rylands Library
The Daily Mail reports today (September 3rd, 2014) that Dr. Roberta Mazza, Research Fellow of the John Rylands Research Institute at the University of Manchester, recently made a significant...
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Review of The Story of the Bodmer Papyri
My review of James M. Robinson, The Story of the Bodmer Papyri: From the First Monastery's Library in Upper Egypt to Geneva and Dublin (Cambridge: James Clarke, 2013; ISBN 9780227172780) has been...
View ArticleAncient Textual Scholarship: Pseudo Aelius Herodianus
The Partitiones contains orthographical and inflectional observations on Greek. A number of these words appear to come from the Greek Bible, both Old and New Testament, though the work in itself does...
View ArticleCodex Climaci Rescriptus contains Aratus and Eratosthenes
We've partially cracked the previously undeciphered 20 sides of Codex Climaci Rescriptus. They contain astronomical texts by Aratus and Eratosthenes. In the case of the latter this is the earliest...
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Bible Odyssey Featuring "Alexandrian Text" and "Early Versions"
A year ago or so I was invited to contribute to SBL's project Bible Odyssey which was launched about two months ago. I was told that this week my article on the "Alexandrian Text" is highlighted on the...
View ArticleA Newly Published Byzantine Greek Lexicon
There is a helpful review at BMCR of a newly published Byzantine Greek lexicon: Eva Villani, Il lessico Ambrosiano inedito ΑΝΤΙΧΕΙΡ (C 222 inf., ff. 207r-208v). Milano: EDUCatt, 2014. Pp. 248....
View ArticleHawarden Seminar on the OT in the NT
Since the study of the OT in the NT often (always?) depends on the study of the particular text forms involved, and because I have fond memories of attending some of these conferences years back, I...
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