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Thinking of doing a PhD in Germany?
The following came in an email from jobs.ac.uk (emails which I now have to read avidly), and looks very useful. Peter Head.Germany has over 140 doctorate awarding higher education institutions, many of...
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The Gospels: A Helpful Key
I found this the other day while tidying up old files, and thought it might offer a change from our more usual offerings on the blog. There will be a test at the SBL blog dinner.
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CSNTM Launches New Website
Today, the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) launched their new and vastly improved website at CSNTM.org. Here are some of the features that are announced on the vastly improved...
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The call for papers and booking forms are now open for the Sixth British Patristics conference.The conference will be held at the University of Birmingham from Monday 5th to Wednesday 7th September...
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Eisenbrauns SBL Sale on Textual Criticism
Eisenbrauns is running a special sale on textual criticism starting today (when ASOR opens) which runs through the following Tuesday evening (when AAR/SBL closes).All that is required is to put the...
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A New Papyrus of the Gospel of John
Today I will attend the Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds session at the SBL in Atlanta. The first paper by Geoff S. Smith, University of Texas at Austin, is of particular interest:Preliminary...
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Michael Holmes Festschrift (Table of Contents)
Mike was presented with a Festschrift at SBL. Congratulations to him and the editors and all the contributors (see below). Dan Gurtner presenting the book to Mike (HT HH); the cover (HT JH); and the...
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A Major New Resource on the Text of the Old Testament: Brill's Textual...
While at SBL this last week I noticed that Brill has a major new resource in development called the Textual History of the Bible which is being published both in print and online. The preview describes...
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ETC Blog and GJW in the Boston Globe
The ETC Blog found its way onto the front page of the Boston Globe today as part of a surprisingly well-written article on the current state of doubt about the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife. Speaking of...
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New Papyrus (P134) of John: A Report from SBL
Here is a report from the session on Christian Apocrypha joint with Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds at SBL Atlanta on 21 November.The first paper in this session was presented by Geoffrey...
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2015 ETS and SBL Paper Summaries
ETC blog dinner 2015.ETS and SBL are now finished although my internal clock has yet to be convinced. This year there was a spate of text critical papers—many more than I could attend or take notes on....
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A Christian Amulet Containing Colossians 3:9–10 (Wayment)
Thomas Wayment has an article in the latest issue of Vigiliae Christianae (69.5) giving the editio princeps of a small papyrus containing Col 3:9–10 which he dates to the IV/V century.ImagePhoto:...
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The physical appearance and handling of sacred texts in terms of material...
There is an interesting review of the following book at BMCR: Joachim Friedrich Quack, Daniela Luft (ed.), Erscheinungsformen und Handhabungen Heiliger Schriften. Materiale Textkulturen, Bd 5. Berlin;...
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How Many Variants Are There in the Greek New Testament?
Not this many.The short answer is no one knows because most of our manuscripts remain uncollated. But this has not stopped scholars from offering numbers since at least the publication of John Mill’s...
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Book Notice
Yii-Jan Lin has a new book coming out next month that is the published form of her Yale dissertation. The provocative title is The Erotic Life of Manuscripts: New Testament Textual Criticism and the...
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Call for Papers: 13th Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual...
Call for Papers for the 13th annual conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS) that will be hosted by the University of Antwerp’s Centre for Manuscript Genetics. Conference...
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How (Not) to Use a Computer-Generated Stemma
Barbara Bordalejo has been heavily involved in the use of computer-aided stemmatics since at least the time of her NYU doctoral thesis (2003; found here).In the newest issue of Digital Scholarship in...
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The Christmas Story through the Centuries
In time for your Christmas Eve service, here is the text of the Christmas story in Matthew and Luke from a selection of 3rd-11th century Greek manuscripts. (Links will take you to larger versions.)...
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The Most Read Posts in 2015
As 2015 comes to a close, it’s time for that yearly tradition, the Year in Review. Here at the ETC blog we’ve had over 165 posts and over 172,000 hits in 2015 according to Google Analytics. (Blogger...
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Happy New ETC Year!
Welcome to a new year with the ETC blog and lots of textual criticism!At the SBL meeting in Atlanta, we celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the blog at the annual ETC blogdinner, and the founding...
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