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TC Journal Vol. 20 Packed with Articles and Reviews
The journal TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism was founded by James Adair in 1996 as one of the first electronic journals devoted to Biblical Studies. In 2010 the journal was relaunched after...
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The Types of Singular Errors in the Book of James
I recently finished working through all the singular readings in James according to the Editio Critica Maior (ECM). There are 1,245 of them according to my data. I picked James because it has the most...
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Brice Jones' Thesis on NT Texts on Greek Amulets
In this post I want to draw the attention to Dr. Brice Jones’ fine PhD thesis submitted to Concordia University in July last year, “New Testament Texts on Greek Amulets from Late Antiquity.” A revised...
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Funded German PhDs in Bible and Digital Humanities
I have had the great honor to work with the research staff of the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal-Bethel for several years now, formerly as a wissentschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, and now as a research...
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University of Groningen Postdoc and PhD positions
The Hands that Wrote the Bible: Digital PalaeographyThe ERC project The Hands that Wrote the Bible: Digital Palaeography and Scribal Culture of the Dead Sea Scrolls invites applications for a 4-year...
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Lady Bible Hunters: Kickass Women
Under labels like "female explorers and kickasswomen,"Ailsa Ross blogs in Atlas Obscura (20 Jan) about the Scottish twins and biblehunters Agnes and Margaret Smith. If you want to know moreAgnes Smith...
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What Are Text-Types For?
Martin L. WestIn his book Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique(1973), Martin West raises an important issue for the use of text-types in NT textual criticism. Here is West:When the critic has...
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Look twice, Read, and look again
I came across the textual variant at the end of Lk 12:38, 'Blessed are these'. The issue here is the presence / absence of οι δουλοι in μακαριοι εισιν οι δουλοι εκεινοι (I think οι δουλοι shouldn't be...
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A Contract to copy Scripture from AD 1021
Without doubt, one of the most important manuscripts for our modern editions of the Hebrew Scriptures is the Leningrad Codex B19a, and many institutions own the facsimile edition. [Interesting that...
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CSNTM Finds More Manuscripts in Athens
Manuscripts: great placesto look for new manuscripts.Dan Wallace teases us on his blog with a note that he has recently found more uncatalogued NT manuscripts in Athens.I recently returned from two...
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Images of P.Bodmer VIII (P72) On-line
The Vatican Library has just released images of P.Bodmer VIII online! (HT: Brent Nongbri)
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Painful blunders
Find the missing word in this verse:Luke 14:27 And whoever does carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.This is the text produced by the first hand of Vaticanus, though I am glad that...
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A grant for postdocs to study biblical fragments at St. Gallen has been announced by the Fragmentarium Fellowship (HT: Christina Kreinecker):CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Fragmentarium fellowship 2016...
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Defining the Byzantine Text
As a follow-up to my post about text-types from last week, here is an example of how our definitions of texts can influence our thinking about textual criticism. It matters particularly when it comes...
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Codex Gigas Images Online
The DevilCodex Gigas, otherwise known as the “Devil’s Bible” is considered the largest Medieval Latin codex. Its pages are 35 inches tall and 19 inches wide and contains the complete Bible along with...
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The Overall Quality of Byzantine Manuscripts
Following up on my follow up on the Byzantine text, it’s instructive to see just how close the text found in the majority of our manuscripts is to the initial text in the Catholic Epistles. From the...
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Debunking Silly Statements about the Bible
There is a post about the textual transmission of the Bible at the (US) Gospel Coalition website: Debunking Silly Statements About the Bible. Unfortunately all around (for the author, Greg Gilbert, his...
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“How Did Jesus Become God?” Livestream
I’m not sure if they still count as blog contributors, but later today Mike Bird and Simon Gathercole will be participating in the annual Greer-Heard Point-Counterpoint Forum. The topic this year is...
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Text Critical Papers at HBU’s 2016 Theology Conference
Mentioned earlier on the blog, HBU’s annual theology conference is happening next weekend. There are lots of text critical papers given this year’s theme of “Erasmus’ Bible and the Impact of...
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BBC on how to make vellum
Here’s a video by the BBC on the production of vellum today in England. It is important as it is the form in which the main laws are recorded in the UK.Video
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