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Falluomini on the New Gothic Fragment
Some time ago, Peter Head blogged about a recent discovery of new fragments of the Gothic Bible. He referred to Carla Falluomini, who states in the new edition of The Text of the New Testament in...
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Scribe Quiz (a.k.a. "The Geeekiest Quiz on the internet")
Here is another blog quiz (for earlier quizzes see: the conjectural emendation quiz, the geography quiz, a monastery quiz, a western text quiz, a NT majuscule manuscript quiz, a general manuscript...
View ArticleQuestions about "First Century Mark"
Discussion is beginning again about the claim that there is a first century manuscript of part of Mark's Gospel. In particular LiveScience reports such a claim associated with Craig Evans and this has...
View ArticleBirmingham Colloquium Programme
The History and Text of New Testament CommentariesThe provisional timetable is now available for the Ninth Birmingham Colloquium, to be held on 2nd-4th March 2015, and is included in this message...
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Virtual Papyrus Exhibition in Leiden
On the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the official foundation of the 'Leids Papyrologisch Instituut’, there is an excellent online the virtual papyrus exhibition 'Texts from Ancient Egypt....
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Xray imaging and the Herculaneum Papyri
New article:Vito Mocella, Emmanuel Brun, Claudio Ferrero& Daniel Delattre, 'Revealing letters in rolled Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase-contrast imaging'Nature Communications 6, Article number:...
View ArticleHas anyone seen "First Century Mark"?
I have had correspondence with Craig Evans and have his permission to confirm that he has not seen the alleged first-century manuscript of Mark and does not know the identity of the scholar or scholars...
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Greek NT Papyrus Discovered in Birmingham
NEWSFLASH: A Greek New Testament papyrus (amulet) has been discovered in Birmingham!Read the ITSEE news release.
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SBL Int. Meeting 2015: Call for Papers
The SBL International Meeting will be held in Bueonos Aires, Argentina on July 20-24. The call for papers closes this week, on 12 February. This is a reminder to log in on the SBL website and submit...
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Wikipedia is still bad: Notes on Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus
About this time last year I wrote a blog about the wikipedia page concerning Codex Alexandrinus, under the heading How Bad Is Wikipedia? Codex Alexandrinus as a Test Case.My general conclusion was...
View ArticleNews and notes
News of a tremendous marketing and tax scam involving biblical manuscripts and evangelical seminaries is covered by Paul Barford and Roberta Mazza. (I am a bit busy to get into this right now, but if...
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The Glory of Byzantium On-line
Byzantine News has announced the release of a good resource for the study of Byzantine art:The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, edited by Helen C. Evans, William D....
View ArticleVaticanus Online
The whole of Codex Vaticanus (OT and NT) now online. http://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1209
View ArticleThe Autograph will reveal everything
Don McLean has said that the original manuscript of American Pie (for our younger readers who don't know what that is see below) will 'divulge everything there is to divulge' about the meaning of the...
View ArticleTransportation of Manuscripts in Medieval Times
There is a nice post with great photos by Erik Kwakkel at Medievalbooks about the transportation of medieval books, including many Bibles, in bags, boxes, various types of containers and wraps: Box It,...
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A New Name for P75
In an interesting new development in scholarly textual criticism the Vatican announced on Twitter that "The Bodmer Papyrus XIV-XV (P75) has a new name: Hanna Papyrus 1 (Mater Verbi)" This is a new...
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More Images of NT Manuscripts (Paris & mostly London)
Minuscule 298 (Paris, BN, Gr. 73)[Paul Anderson tells me: "It is a Byzantine and is a slightly weakened family Πa member clustered with GA 787 and 1478 with a typical μ5 PA form for this...
View ArticleEthiopic Manuscript of Jannes and Jambres
Over at PaleoJudaica, Jim Davila notes the recent discovery of an Ethiopic text of Jannes and Jambres (a work about the Egyptian magicians who opposed Moses in Exodus 7, known only incompletely, which...
View ArticleBible Typos and Typography
The Washington Post offers a collection of Bible typos - just the thing to liven up that lecture a bit: When ‘Jesus’ was ‘Judas’ and other pretty stupendous Bible typos Mark Ward posts a video (from a...
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