The Influence of Atticism on the Textual Transmission of 1 John
A master thesis by P. R. De Lange was presented last year at the North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus and has now come under my radar: “The influence of atticism on the textual transmission of I...
View ArticleDavid Parker honoured by the Queen
Congratulations to David Parker.The Queen has recognised David Parker's contribution to New Testament Textual Criticism (and incidentally 'Higher Education') by appointing him as an Officer of the...
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Gospel of Jesus's Wife ... Again
The most recent issue of the journal New Testament Studies offers a series of articles on the Gospel of Jesus's Wife controversy, all contending that the fragment is a modern creation and not an...
View Article‘Seven times in chains’: 1 Clement 5.6 and the New Testament
In 1 Clement 5.6 we read that Paul had borne chains seven times: ‘After he had been seven times in chains, had been driven into exile, had been stoned, and had preached in the east and in the west, he...
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Online Database of Syriac Manuscripts
There is a fairly new online database for Syriac manuscripts called e-ktobe. The aim of the database—listing “all syriac manuscripts in the world”—is quite ambitious. From the website:E-ktobe is a...
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A New Word from a Non-word in Your NA28?
At 2 Peter 2.14, the majority of Greek witnesses describe a group of people “having eyes full of an adulteress” (ὀφθαλμοὺς ἔχοντες μεστοὺς μοιχαλίδος). Charles Bigg concluded in his ICC commentary that...
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Yale Library Website on Medieval Bookbinding
Yale University Library has a helpful website called the Traveling Scriptorium that’s meant to serve as a teaching aid for the study of the medieval and early modern book. It’s run by by the library’s...
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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 ArticleWho Said It?
A little fun for your Friday. See if you can guess the source of the following quote. (Remember, it’s no fun if you ask Google.)“If the primary purpose of this discipline is to get back to the original...
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Conjecturing the Initial Text Where the Original Text is Extant
While pondering the relationship of the initial text and the original text (as one does), a thought experiment occurred to me. I shared it with a friend who was asking about the difference between the...
View ArticleConference Announcement
Call for PapersAltertumswissenschaften in a Digital Age: Egyptology, Papyrology and BeyondWorkshop, Leipzig, November 4-6, 2015Felix-Klein-Hörsaal, Paulinum, Augustusplatz 10, 4th FloorHashtag:...
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Lunn on the End of Mark
The other day I received in the mail the following book: N.P. Lunn, The Original Ending of Mark: A New Case for the Authenticity of Mark 16:9-20 (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2014).When it came out I got a...
View ArticleCalhoun: Acts 17.27 in Bezae as a Reader’s Note
The latest issue of Early Christianity (6.2) has an interesting short article from Robert M. Calhoun on the reading of Codex Bezea at Acts 17.27. Instead of reading that every nation has been made “to...
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Digitally Unrolling the Ein Gedi Scroll of Leviticus
Ein Gedi scroll. (photo credit)Yesterday, various news outlets reported the recent identification of Leviticus 1.1-8 in a charred scroll from Ein Gedi. First discovered in the 1970, the contents have...
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Lunn on the End of Mark. Part 2
For the introduction to this book and review series, see my previous post. N.P. Lunn, The Original Ending of Mark: A New Case for the Authenticity of Mark 16:9-20 (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2014).Ch. 1:...
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Book Review: The Gospel of Mark in the Syriac Harklean Version (2015)
Samer Soreshow Yohanna. The Gospel of Mark in the Syriac Harklean Version: An Edition Based upon the Earliest Witnesses. Biblica et Orientalia 52. Rome: Gregorian & Biblical Press, 2015. xi + 196....
View ArticleSNTS Meeting in Amsterdam
The SNTS is meeting in Amsterdam this week. Interesting papers include:Main Paper IV (Aula) – Prof. Tobias Nicklas (Regensburg), “Neutestamentlicher Kanon, christliche Apokryphen und antik-christliche...
View ArticleArticles and Reviews in the TC Journal 20 (2015)
As one of the editors of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, it is my pleasure to announce that some articles and reviews have been published in the current issue, vol. 20 (2015), and that...
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Accessing Elliott’s Bibliography (3rd ed.) Online
In a comment that, for some inexplicable reason, did not appear in the sidebar, Hugh Houghton has given details about how to access Elliott’s bibliography of GNT manuscripts online. Unfortunately the...
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Lunn on the End of Mark. Part 3
For the introduction to this book and review series, see my previous posts: Part 1, Part 2. N.P. Lunn, The Original Ending of Mark: A New Case for the Authenticity of Mark 16:9-20 (Eugene, OR:...
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