ETC Interview with Hugh Houghton: Part 2
This is the second part of my interview with Hugh Houghton. Part 1 is here.You work at the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (ITSEE) where “computer methods are now fundamental...
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It is a real pleasure to continue our ETC Blog interview series with someone who is no stranger to our regular readers. Dr. Hugh Houghton is Reader in New Testament Textual Scholarship at the...
View ArticleWin a Copy of Hugh Houghton's The Latin New Testament (OUP)
To celebrate the release of his book next week, Oxford University Press has kindly agreed to give away a copy of Hugh Houghton’s The Latin New Testament: A Guide to its Early History, Texts, and...
View ArticleFörster on the Grammar of John 8:25
Hans Förster (University of Vienna) has published a fascinating article in ZNW on a supposedly incomplete sentence in John's gospel, demonstrating how a scholar can integrate philology and textual...
View ArticleMonocondyle in GA1977 (Byzantine Palaeography)
Recently a student of mine came across this subscription to 1 Timothy in Greg.-Aland 1977 (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana ms. laur. Plut. 10.9):I interpreted the two final lines as:+ εγραφη απο...
View ArticleETC Interview with Hugh Houghton: Part 2
Congratulations to Drew Longacre for winning our book giveaway! Thanks to all who participated. I have taken note of your many suggestions for future interviewees. Now here is part 2 of our interview...
View Article2016 Summer TWU LXX Summer Course
Course DescriptionSeptuagint Studies is a burgeoning field of research that has seen the recent publication of modern language translations, lexica, monographs and series on a wide range of topics. Two...
View ArticleA New Biography of Leon Morris: Brief Review
Neil Bach, Leon Morris: One Man's Fight for Love and Truth (Milton Keynes: Paternoster/Authentic, 2015). Neil Bach has written a very informative biography of Leon Morris, with a fascinating photograph...
View ArticleNew Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
An email from the librarian at Corpus Christi, Oxford informs me of a new catalogue which includes seven Biblical Hebrew manuscripts:Corpus Library and Archives are delighted to announce the...
View ArticleMonastic Economies in Egypt and Palestine
Sorry for the late notice, but some readers may well be interested in this conference:Please find below the programme for the Monastic Economies in Egypt and Palestineconference, which will take place...
View ArticleAntwerp University Summer School
This Summer the Antwerp University Summer School: Book and Culture – Religious Manuscripts, Hand Press Books and Prints (15th–19th centuries): Collections, Materials and Methodologies – will take place...
View ArticleHundreds More Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts from the British Library
Add. MS 9401 f. 3r. Genesis. Dated 1588.Yesterday the British Library announced that more Hebrew manuscripts have now been digitized.Our followers and readers will be delighted to learn that over 760...
View ArticleTC of the NT, OT and Qur'an
The European Association of Biblical Studies now has a research group focused on fostering cross-disciplinary conversation on the textual criticism of NT, OT and Qur'an. The programme from the website...
View ArticleETC Interview with Chuck Hill: Part 1
I am pleased to introduce our next interviewee in our ETC interviews series. Dr. Charles E. Hill completed his PhD on eschatology in the early Church at the University of Cambridge under Lord Rowan...
View ArticleCodex Bezae on Display Now
Just a note to those in or near Cambridge that Codex Bezae is said to go on display today at the University Library.Probably not the page they’ll put on display.I was there a few days ago and saw them...
View ArticleFischer's Prescience in 1970 on the Use of Computers for Textual Criticism
I just read an article by Bonifatius Fischer on the use of computers in New Testament studies. What makes it interesting is that it was written in 1970. Here are a couple of points that stood out to...
View ArticleNew book on the Authority of Scripture
Today I received my copy of a new book: D.A. Carson (ed.), The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016). It is quite a big book (36 chapters and 1,240 pages), so...
View ArticleThe Flourishing Field of New Testament Textual Criticism
In 1973, Eldon J. Epp held a lecture on what he regarded as the “Twentieth Century Interlude in New Testament Textual Criticism” (published in JBL 93 [1974]: 386–414). He suggested that there had been...
View ArticleETC Interview with Chuck Hill: Part 2
This is part 2 of our interview with Chuck Hill. Part 1 is here.In The Early Text of the NT, you suggest that David Parker “gives the impression that concern for the original text is simply a religious...
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