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Conjectural Emendation: Yea or Nay?
I am testing the polling function on the new design and thought I would start with something that came up last night at the ETC blog dinner: conjectural emendation (discussed before on this blog).Do...
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Lakes' Dated Greek Minuscule MSS Online (by Pyle)
I would like to draw our readers' attention to a fine resource for Greek palaeography and codicology: Pyle which aims to (1) collect scattered resources from various individuals and institutions; and...
View ArticleA New Testament text-critic's experience of SBL 2014
San Diego 2014 proved to be one of the more academically rewarding conferences of recent years, mainly because I managed to choose the right sessions (and managed to avoid some reportedly disappointing...
View ArticleUtrecht Psalter
I think the two YouTube videos below are the first ones that I know of that deal with a biblical manuscript. Quite creative.The content of the second one is of slightly less quality than the first one,...
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19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies: Ge'ez Versions of the Bible
Those who have an interest in or are conducting research on the Classical Ethiopic (Ge'ez) versions of the Bible, early Jewish literature or early Christian literature are herewith advised of an...
View ArticleArticle: Crawford on Ammonius and Eusebius
Interesting new article in NTS: Matthew R. Crawford, ‘Ammonius of Alexandria, Eusebius of Caesarea and the Origins of Gospels Scholarship’ New Testament Studies 61 (2014), 1-29.  Abstract: In the early...
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The problem with verses
I was interested to read at T.C. Robinson's blog about Gordon Fee's reasons for revising his commentary on First Corinthians (the revised NICNT, published this year). The third of his reasons is as...
View ArticleNT Textual Criticism Signs
The following list was first posted on the website Four Senses by Erwin Ochsenmeier in 2009. Â I repost it here, as the information is no longer available. Â Below you will find the various TC sigla with...
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Mark, Manuscripts, and Monotheism (Festschrift for Larry Hurtado)
Recently, I had the great privilege to contribute to a Festschrift for my friend and colleague Larry Hurtado, Mark, Manuscripts and Monotheism, edited by two of his outstanding students and friends of...
View ArticleTC program unit at EABS in Cordoba 2015
A few days ago the European Association of Biblical Studies committee accepted a proposal by Theodora Panella (ITSEE, Birmingham) for a workshop with the title “Textual Criticism of the NT, the OT and...
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Newsweek on the Bible
Or Things every bible reader should know Just in time for Christmas, Kurt Eichenwald laments that "The Bible" is "So Misunderstood It's a Sin" (Newsweek on the Bible) You may have read many of his...
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Two Coptic Old Testament research positions
Chester Beatty Coptic Ms. CDigital Edition and Translation of the Coptic-ÂSahidic Old TestamentInstitute for Egyptology and Coptic Studies, University of GöttingenThese are two-year fixed term...
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"Misquoting Manuscripts? The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture Revisited"
Since I noted that someone had scanned an old essay of mine, "Misquoting Manuscripts? The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture Revisited" which appeared in The Making of Christianity: Conflicts, Contacts,...
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Greek Manuscripts with Word Division
Everyone familiar with the early Greek majuscules is used to the absence of word division, which virtually forces you to vocalise every syllable in order to make sense of the text. Latin never had this...
View ArticleHere and there
Brice Jones has found a papyrus fragment of John for sale on ebay - see here (it all looks plausible to me). Winchester Cathedral is trying to recover illuminations stolen from the twelfth-century...
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TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism vol. 19 (2014)
The 19th volume of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism (2014) is now complete. A number of new articles have just been published on-line. The volume contains three full-length articles, two...
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P. Oxy 4959 - some notes
P. Oxy 4959 is a very interesting documentary letter of the second century - interesting at lots of levels in terms of content, style, grammar, compositional process (corrections and cross through),...
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What is the Oldest Manuscript of the New Testament?
For years the answer to this question was easy: P52, a manuscript identified and housed in Manchester, handsomely dated to the early 2nd century. C.H. Roberts wrote in the original publication of this...
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Breaking News: CSNTM to Digitize MSS at the National Library of Greece!
Today the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) publically announced the breaking news that they are to digitize all the NT MSS of the National Library of Greece in Athens....
View ArticleA Pro-Byzantine Textual Commentary
A textual commentary on passages that differs between the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece (28th ed.) and the Robinson-Pierpont The New Testament in the Original Greek: Byzantine Textform (2005)...
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