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New article in NTS on Early Christianity and Culture
“Culture” is not perhaps the best word, but it’ll do for the moment. Udo Schnelle’s SNTS presidential address from last year has been published: U. Schnelle, ‘Das frühe Christentum und die Bildung’ NTS...
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Scheide Library stays in Princeton
The William Schiede collection, which contains copies of the first six printed editions of the Bible, including a practically complete Gutenberg Bible (1455), as well as a host of other early printed...
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Vatican Library: Online Images (NT Greek)
I don't think that it will be possible to post regular up-dates for online images of the Vatican Library. They are aiming to get all 80,000 manuscripts photographed and on-line (1690 so far). Among...
View ArticleGreek Lectionaries: an introduction
I was getting together a handout for a seminar on Monday on the topic of Greek Lectionary manuscripts of the New Testament. But it is an area in which I readily confess my ignorance (and usually don't...
View ArticleHelpful Website on English Translations of the Bible
I recently came across a website called the Internet Bible Catalog. Notwithstanding that mis-spelling of "catalogue" I found this a useful resource in tracking down both a particular edition of an...
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Seeing the Codex Vercellensis in a New Light: Multispectral Imaging and the...
I’m pleased to be able to post here a report of some important new research from Gregory Heyworth and Roger Easton which will doubtless be of broader interest:Dating to the first half of the 4th...
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Radiometric Dating of the Gospel of Judas
Peter Kirby has put together an excellent survey of information on the 14C dating of the Gospel of Judas, here. The whole issue is complicated, particularly for those without a firm grounding in the...
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Consistency is Highly Overrated
Everyone who has worked a lot with the raw data of a manuscript knows that scribes seem to do many things on a whim, without any discernible rule. Editors of our modern text hate scribes for this and...
View ArticleConference Announcement and Call for Papers: The Use of the Bible in...
The Use of the Bible in Contemporary Culture 25th–27th June—University of ChichesterContemporary western culture contains many references and allusions to the Bible, especially in art, the media, and...
View ArticleThe Greek Manuscripts of Robert Curzon
There is a really good post over at the BL blog on Greek manuscripts collected by Robert Curzon. A couple of years ago I was read Curzon's very entertaining account of his travels and manuscript...
View ArticleLondon International Palaeography Summer School 2015
Go here for details of this year's London International Palaeography Summer School (June 15-19). Lots of choice, and there are course descriptions and reading lists to check out. E.g. there is a two...
View ArticleGordon College Selling Rare Bibles
Christianity Today reports that Gordon College is planning to auction some of its Bibles: More than 90 years ago, Gordon College was given 7,000 rare books and artifacts by the family of Edward Payson...
View ArticleLeiden Summer School in Papyrology and Greek Papyri
This summer, courses of Papyrology will be offered as part of the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics, which will be held from 13 - 24 July 2015 at the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden...
View ArticleVideo of the Opening of the Bible Museum in Munster
I found this in an old draft post which I never posted. In addition to the general interest, it contains a very full and frank interview with Kurt Aland which is worth listening to.
View ArticleNew article on CBGM
Tommy Wasserman, 'The Coherence Based Genealogical Method as a Tool for Explaining Textual Changes in the Greek New Testament'Novum Testamentum 57 (2015) 206-218.Abstract: This article discusses the...
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The Date of Majuscule 0305 - Suggestions?
Currently the Liste gives a wonderfully ironic date for majuscule 0305 (Matthew 20) of -100 to -1 (here).The total absence of any discussion piqued my interest, and, thanks to the resources of the BnF...
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M 021 online images
Images of M 021 (a ninth century gospels majuscule) are now online. (HT Paul Anderson)For Images of NT Majuscules in Paris now:C 04: Ephraimi Rescriptus (Paris, Bibl. Nat., Gr. 9)D 06: Claromontanus...
View ArticleThe Art of Isopsephism in the Greco-Roman World
New publication: R. Ast & J. Lougovaya, 'The Art of Isopsephism in the Greco-Roman World' in Ägytische Magie und ihre Umwelt (ed. A. Jördens; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015), 82-98. Available here....
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R.I.P. Harold Greenlee
On 21 March, Jacob Harold Greenlee passed away at the age of 96. The following is an obituary written by his son, David Greenlee:JACOB HAROLD GREENLEEMay 12, 1918 – March 21, 2015Αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ θεὸς τῆς...
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