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Keith Elliott Festschrift
Textsand Traditions: Essays in Honour of J Keith Elliott (ed. J. Kloha & P. Doble; NTTSD 47; Leiden: Brill, 2014), The methodology of New Testament textual criticism, the critical evaluation of...
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Early image of Christ holding a book
The BBC reports the find of a glass plate in Spain (here). It mentions a 4th century date for this artefact, which may be true or not. The reconstruction is interesting:The central figure holding the...
View ArticleConference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship
TEXTUAL TRAILS. Transmissions of Oral and Written TextsHelsinki, 30 October – 1 November 2014Texts tend to travel across space and time, whether they are carried by sound waves, embedded in parchments,...
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2014 Panizzi Lectures
The Giant Bibles of Twelfth-Century EnglandA series of three lectures in the British Library by Christopher de HamelThe great Latin Bibles, in huge multiple volumes, are by far the largest and most...
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Nongbri on the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri (Michigan Portion)
In the recent issue of Archiv für Papyrusforschung 60/1 (2014), Brent Nongbri has published an article on "The Acquisition of the University of Michigan's Portion of the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri...
View ArticleMozart Manuscript discovered ... in a library!
A young researcher, named Balazs Mikusi, found Mozart's own score of the Piano Sonata in A. He was a clever researcher because he was in a library 'leafing through folders of unidentified manuscripts'....
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Early Readers, Scholars and Editors of the New Testament on Sale!
Gorgias Press has a sale until 31 December on this newly published volume of ten papers presented at the Eighth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament: Early Readers,...
View ArticleA Survey of Surveys on Mark
Here is a collection of surveys of scholarship on Mark. I couldn't find one which summarised text-critical work on Mark's Gospel.Surveys of Scholarly Literature: R.S. Barbour, ‘Recent Study of the...
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British Library, Matthew 23 and Chrysostom
Though I don't think that there is much biblical stuff in the latest batch of Greek mss put online by the British Library, there is always something interesting, and this time it is a citation from the...
View ArticleCall for Papers: Jeremiah, Scripture and Theology
The Fifth St Andrews Scripture and Theology Conference: The Book of Jeremiah, 6-9 July 2015In July 2015, biblical scholars and theologians from around the world will gather to consider the Book of...
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SBL ETC Blog Dinner
When:Sunday, 23 Nov 23, 7pmWhere:The Hard Rock CafeGroup Menu Price:$22For those of you attending SBL and interested in textual criticism, the annual blog dinner will take place after the NTTC session...
View ArticleOxford Syriac Conference Jan 2015: Call for Papers
Syriac Intellectual Culture in Late AntiquityTranslation, transmission, and influence This conference explores the intellectual cultures of Syriac-language literary and scholarly communities of the...
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Sahidic OT Project at Göttingen!!!
Sahidic Job, Naples, National Library, Ms.I.B.18Scholars have long had access to editions of the Coptic New Testament texts. In addition to more recent editions of various NT texts, one could always...
View ArticleYour Greek New Testament and Revisions of Editions
There is something interesting going on in the apparatus of NA28. But I need a long introduction ...For any critical edition of the Greek New Testament a decision is made which manuscript to include in...
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Conference on the Bodmer Papyri (Feb 2014)
Further details (including abstracts of papers) from Alin Suciu's blog
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Green Scholars Initiative, new director announced
The Museum of the Bible has announced that ETC blog member, Michael Holmes, has been chosen to lead the Green Scholars Initiative. You can read the full announcement, here. The following excerpt...
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...
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