New Article: Batovici on Hermas in Sinaiticus
D. Batovici, ‘Textual Revisions of the Shepherd of Hermas in Codex Sinaiticus’ ZAC 18 (2014), 443-470. [academia.edu]Abstract: The last two books in what has survived of the fourth century biblical...
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New article: Evans on Books, Autographs and NT Textual Criticism
Craig A. Evans, ‘How Long Were Late Antique Books in Use? Possible Implications for New Testament Textual Criticism’ Bulletin of Biblical Research25 (2015), 23-37.Abstract: Recent study of libraries...
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Why Peter Williams Does Not Believe in the Septuagint
If you hang around Peter Williams long enough you will learn not to speak of the Septuagint unless you want a short lesson on the history of the translation of the Old Testament into Greek. In a recent...
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Poll: What’s the Goal of Textual Criticism?
“Original text”?Not long ago I read the entry on New Testament textual criticism in a very good dictionary that claimed that the goal of textual criticism has shifted so that today the quest for the...
View ArticleLuther's Notes Discovered - in a library!
News in from the BBC: A first edition of one of the most important works of the man who inspired the Protestant Reformation has been discovered in a library in France. The publication by German...
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Articles on Five New Editions of the Hebrew Bible
I recently learned two things I didn’t know: there are five editions of the Hebrew Bible in various stages of production and there is a new Hebrew Bible journal with a number of good articles on these...
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The NIV 50th Anniversary (Commissioned 1965)
This year, 2015, marks the 50th anniversary of the commissioning of the New International Version (NIV) in 1965. The actual translation was published in 1978.Pressrelease from Zondervan (Grand Rapids,...
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Distribution of New Testament Manuscripts by Century
The Alands have a nice chart showing the distribution of Greek New Testament manuscripts by century in their textual criticism handbook, but the data are almost 30 years old now. Thankfully, it’s...
View ArticleBible News and Auction Action
Two Reverends found an old Bible in their church in Lancashire (which I think is somewhere in England). They discovered it was a 1611 “Great She Bible” - a KJV with a typo. One of them said:“This...
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Paolo Trovato’s New Book on Lachmann’s Method
A new book came out last October that I think deserves the attention of NT text critics, especially those working on all things stemmatic. It’s written by Paolo Trovato, a prolific Italian philologist...
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New (and Old) INTF Website
The website for the Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung (INTF) is being updated. The new URL is uni-muenster.de/EvTheol/intf and not all the old content is available there yet. But they’ve...
View ArticleNew NT Papyrus Manuscripts
One of the great things about working in the field of NT manuscripts and textual criticism over the last decades has been the steady flow of new material. Just to show two strands of that flow:NA26...
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Commenting Tips
Just a quick note for our faithful blog commenters. Blogger allows for some basic HTML formatting which you may find useful. You can bold, italicize, and link as follows:If you want to italicize...
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Tov, Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research
A completely revised and expanded third edition of Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in Biblical Researchwill be published by Eisenbrauns this summer. Publisher’s descriptionThis handbook provides a...
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CSNTM Expedition in the Greek Press
As noted earlier on the blog, CSNTM is currently on a major expedition in Greece digitizing the entire Greek NT collection of the National Library—over 300 manuscripts. It’s a huge undertaking and the...
View ArticleDo you know what is missing in Legg’s volumes on Matthew and Mark?
Random fact about S.C.E. Legg’s two volumes with variants on Mark and Matthew:they have no page numbers!S.C.E Legg, Euangelium secundum Marcum, Nouum Testamentum Graece secundum Textum...
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Index of Variants Discussed in Relation to the CBGM
Local stemma for 2 Peter 3.10/48-50Following a question on Facebook regarding whether the CBGM had influenced the conjecture at 2 Peter 3.10 (οὐχ εὑρεθήσεται), I thought it would be good to have an...
View ArticleConference: The Written Heritage of Mankind in Peril
The Written Heritage of Mankind in Peril: Theft, Retrieval, Sale and Restitution of rare books, maps and manuscripts Seminar, British Library London, 26 June 2015 The theft of and illicit trafficking...
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New Book: Early Christianity in Contexts
William Tabbernee (ed.), Early Christianity in Contexts: An Exploration across Cultures and Continents (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2014). I’ve just finished reading this interesting book about Early...
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Thomas Kraus on Luke 14.5 and What We Need in Our Critical Editions
The March issue of Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses has an article from Thomas Kraus exploring what text critics need in their critical editions with an interesting example from Luke 14.5. The...
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