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Note on a Conjecture (Philemon 23)
From a footnote in something I am writing about letter-carriers:In 1909 Amling proposed a single-letter emendation to read 0Ihsouj rather than 0Ihsou= at Phile 23, and thus allow complete agreement...
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The British Library Medieval Manuscripts blog reports that seventy-five more manuscripts are on-line. These seem to be the last group in the current project (hopefully they will get more funding to...
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Scratching the plural out of prayer - Mt 6:5
This is a story about how difficult it can be to get the data right even before starting to ponder the original wording of a text.These are the opening words of Mt 6:5 as in Tregelles and NA28:Καὶ ὅταν...
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New Book on Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Sinaiticus: New Perspectives on the Ancient Biblical Manuscript The volume arising from the major conference on Codex Sinaiticus in the summer of 2009 (see blogs here for the programme and here...
View ArticleDirty manuscripts
Two interesting links to discussions of dirty manuscripts.Erik Kwakkel discusses dirty medieval books, including fingerprints, leaves and twigs, sand, pins, paint, and cat paws (with nine photos...
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A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts (3d ed.)
The third edition of A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts by J. Keith Elliott, with the assistance of the Institut romand des sciences bibliques (IRSB) Université de Lausanne, has been...
View ArticleHousekeeping note
In our constant pursuit of excellence in the fulfilment of the mission of our blog it would be really helpful to have posts from all our blog members once in a while. Here are some suggestions if you...
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Rebinding news
A helpful discussion with illustrations of the recent re-binding of one of the manuscripts in the Goodspeed collection in Chicago (connected with a project to put complete digital images of all the...
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Summer School Options
1. Summer School in Textual CriticismThe Department of Humanities at the University of Ferrara offers an intensive 2-week summer school in textual criticism. The course is aimed at both graduate and...
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Differences between early Nestle editions of the NT?
Nestle’s first edition (1898) involved the mechanical process of comparing the text of Tischendorf with that of Westcott & Hort. When they agreed Nestle printed the text; when they disagreed he...
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Papyrus 28 Sold to Private Collector Gifford Combs
Papyrus 28 (= P.Oxy. 1596) containing John 6:8-12, 17-22 formerly Berkeley, Pacific School of Religion, Palestine Institute Museum, Pap. has been sold to the private collector Gifford Combs, Los...
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Texts on wood and bark
For obvious reasons we are accustomed to thinking of biblical texts on papyrus and parchment (the most obvious reason is that most biblical texts were in fact written on papyrus and parchment). Among...
View ArticleMuseum of the Bible: Interesting interview with David Trobsich
David van Biema has an interesting interview with David Trobisch: "David Trobisch lends Green family’s Bible Museum a scholarly edge"The interview poses the question of the nature of the theological...
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R.I.P. Roger Omanson 1946 – 2015
Roger Omanson has passed away on April 30 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 68.Omanson devoted most of his career to bible translation with the United Bible Societies, and...
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The Missing Manuscript and the Case of Variant Boundaries
According to NA27/28 there is a variant at the start of Mt 10:33 (οστις δ̕ αν αρνησηται ...)1) text οστις δ'αν2) οστις δε (as in NA28; 1 2 as in NA27) B L 1424 pc3) και οστις WQuiz question: on the...
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Houston, Inside Roman Libraries
G.W. Houston, Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014) is an important resource. Blurb: Libraries of the...
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Forthcoming Book on the Pericope of Jesus and the Adulteress
From Dave Black:I am pleased to announce that The Pericope of the Adulteress in Modern Research has been accepted for publication in T & T Clark’s Library of New Testament Studies series. You may...
View ArticleDatabase of Digitized Greek Manuscripts
David Jenkins (Librarian for Classics, Hellenic Studies and Linguistics at Princeton University.) has an excellent database of digital images of Greek manuscripts: Digitized Greek Manuscripts....
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Historic Editions of the Greek New Testament online
Over on Facebook it was observed that Brill was offering a collection of historic editions of the New Testament for sale.The Critical Editions of the New Testament OnlineThe Greek Text, Versions, and...
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