A 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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Keith Elliott Festschrift
Texts and 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, 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 on...
View ArticleOxford Syriac Conference Jan 2015: Call for Papers
Syriac Intellectual Culture in Late Antiquity Translation, transmission, and influence This conference explores the intellectual cultures of Syriac-language literary and scholarly communities of the...
View ArticleAny information on claim about 1st century Latin text?
A few recent web articles have mentioned a Latin text that records a miracle of Jesus. Supposedly the text is from a Marcus Velleius Paterculus from the first century. However, usable pictures of the...
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Report from the Digital Collation Conference in Münster
The following is a report from Peter Gurry who attended theResearch Summit on Collation of Ancient and Medieval Texts in Münster on 3-4 October.* * *A few weeks ago I attended the Research Summit on...
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The Gospel of Jesus's Wife, Part II: Jesus's Wife Rediviva
BL Add. MS 17202 dated colophon"The date of writing is given in l. 1 and l. 3 as A.S. 880 = A.D.569. This must have been the date of the completion of the work, of which different parts were written at...
View ArticleNew Look
As you can see, we are trying a new look on the blog. Let us know what you think in the comments below.
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Homer Papyrus
If you are looking for a Christmas present, there is a Homer papyrus for sale at liveauctioneers.com.It looks pretty 4th century to me, and the text is from the Iliad bk 13, 565-580 (lower margin...
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