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Marcion Smackdown in Atlanta (SBL)
At the last annual SBL meeting in San Diego, my Swedish colleague Mikael Winninge, who chairs the Formation of Luke and Acts program unit, mentioned the idea to have a joint session with New Testament...
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A note on Richard Hays, Reading Backwards
While reading Richard Hays' book, Reading Backwards, I became fascinated with this symbol: It occurs fifteen times in the book, bringing a sense of unity and coherence to the otherwise narrativally...
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ETC Interview with John Karavidopoulos
It is a pleasure for me to introduce our next interview. John (Ioannis) Karavidopoulos (1937–) is Emeritus Professor of the Theological School of Aristotle and is best known among English-speaking...
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Call for Papers: Digital Editions: Academia, Society, Cultural Heritage
The Cologne Center for eHumanities is organizing the second DiXiT convention, taking place 16-18 March 2015 in Cologne, Germany. The conference will be preceded by a day dedicated to workshops...
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Ad Fontes, Ad Futura: Erasmus’ Bible and the Impact of Scripture
The weather probably isn’t too bad in February.Another conference ETC readers might be interested in.February 25-27, 2016 Houston Baptist UniversityIn celebration of upcoming 500th anniversary of...
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Duplicating a Passage: Scribes getting in the way of the Apparatus
Minuscule 1573 writes the section Mt 25:22-23 twice. Not good.This is the relevant section (images available here and here at the NT.VMR):I don't know who is responsible for crossing out the duplicated...
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Recent Journal Articles on Textual Criticism
While looking at the new journals shelf last week I noticed a number of text critical articles have come out recently.Novum Testamentum 57.5Ronald H. van der Bergh, “Old Testament Awareness” and the...
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Destroying a Manuscript to Test Multispectral Imaging
Image setup for the experiment.There is a fascinating new article out today in the journal Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (more on which later) on multispectral imaging (MSI). What makes this...
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Pioneers of the Trade: Famous Text-Critical Scholars (CSNTM)
Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) offers a number of interviews in a series called "Pioneers of the Trade: Famous Text-Critical Scholars" which is freely available on iTunes-U.A...
View ArticleA question about diamond readings in NA28
There are obviously many great things about NA28, but there are also some ongoing niggles. One thing I've come across recently is the situation with some of the "diamond" readings in the Catholic...
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The spelling of the relatively simple word for 'more' in Greek, is in actual fact quite complex. The neuter single of the word occurs in three different forms in the Nestle-Aland editions (and I expect...
View ArticleCurator of Ancient and Medieval MSS at the British Library
The British Library is recruiting a Curator of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts with a special responsibility for Classical, Biblical and Byzantine Manuscripts:Job purpose To develop and manage the...
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Rescued by Water and Salt?
There are a number of puzzles to resolve in 1 Peter 3.20 but I’ve come across a new one, at least with its transmission and reception. The Harklean Syriac of 1 Peter 3.20 tells of “eight souls rescued...
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SBL Blog Dinner 2015, Atlanta
This year’s annual blog dinner will be held at Pitty Pat’s Porch, an excellent Atlanta establishment whose ambiance and cuisine hearkens back to the classic novel and motion picture Gone with the Wind....
View ArticleNew Article and Reviews in TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism
One new article by John Granger Cook and a number of new reviews have appeared in the current issue of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 20 (2015).More to come soon!New articleJohn Granger...
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Eisenbrauns Sale on Textual Criticism
Eisenbrauns is currently doing a sale with up to 60% discount on titles in textual criticism (good through November 5). My own The Epistle of Jude: Its Text and Transmission is one of the offered...
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Isaiah 66 and Jeremiah 1 in Sinaiticus, on Display at the British Library
As noted in the British Library blog, the British Library has lent the NT of Codex Sinaiticus to the British Museum for a special display down the road (in its old home). This means that when you go to...
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A Three Part Correction to the Editio Critica Maior at 1 John 3.24
I use the Editio Critica Maior frequently and I continue to be impressed by how well it combines clarity with great detail. Yes, it takes a bit of getting used to its format (as with any large...
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Podcast Interviews with Larry Hurtado and Bill Warren
Two new interviews in the podcast series on iTunesU "Pioneers of the Trade" from Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) have appeared recently:Bill Warren describes the current state...
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Table of Contents for Porter and Pitts's New Introduction to NT TC
Stanley Porter and Andrew Pitts’s new introduction to New Testament textual criticism is out now (according to Amazon) and should be available at ETS/SBL (according to Eerdmans).Some of the things I...
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