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Holmes on Objective Evidence in Textual Criticism
In response to the notion that the use of internal evidence is more subjective than external and therefore less reliable, Mike Holmes says this:The claim that some methods are more “objective” than...
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Report on the International Conference for the NT Textual Criticism in Athens
Over at the Volos Acadamy for Theological Studies website there is a report on a recent conference in Athens on NTTC.On February, 22 2016, an International Conference was successfully held at the...
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BREAKING NEWS: Archaeologists find Q
This is one of the most phenomenal discoveries of the century. I am still in a state of shock and (g)nashing my teeth for previously entertaining doubts about Q. For full details of the discovery...
View ArticleNew articles and reviews in NovT and the TC Journal
In the new issue of Novum Testamentum 58.2 (2016), one article and one review has been published:Peter Malik, "Another Look at P.IFAO II 31 (𝔓98)" (pp.: 204–217)Tommy Wasserman, Review of Texts and...
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Of Works and Artifacts, or Why You Can Touch up the Sistine Chapel but not...
Workers restore the scene “original sin”in the Sistine Chapel (photo credit)What makes it wrong to alter a great painting but not a great manuscript? I think many of us instinctively know there’s a...
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P.Vindob. G 31289 A Newly Published Fourth/Fifth Century fragment of Ezekiel
A. Papathomas, ‘Ezechiel 12, 16–19 und 23–25 in einem griechischen Pergament aus Ägypten’ Tyche 30 (2015), 91-98 (and taf. 14)An interesting little parchment fragment (5.4 x 4.8 cm) of Ezekiel, which...
View ArticleAn Advanced Course in Arabic Manuscript Studies
I received this email from Armin Yavari (Assistant Director of 'The Islamic Manuscript Association') and thought this course may be of interest to some of our readers:The Islamic Manuscript...
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2nd Summer School in Textual Criticism in Ferrara: 29 June-8 July
Castello Estense (photo credit)This summer the Department of Humanities at the University of Ferrara (Italy) will again be offering an eight day summer school on textual criticism. Attendance is capped...
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Three New Books on the Bible in American History
It is a good time to be a student of American religious history and especially American Evangelicalism. Historians like George Marsden, Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch and others continue to write incisively...
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Handwriting Analysis and Dating the Bible
Ostraca from Arad dating ca. 600 B.C. (source)There’s currently a story making the rounds on the major news sites (NY Times, Guardian, etc.). The headlines are, as headlines often are, “exciting”:“New...
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New Book: The Pericope of the Adulteress in Contemporary Research
Finally, the book from the Pericope of the Adulteress Symposium is out (see here), and I am happy to have contributed with a chapter, “The Strange Case of the Missing Adulteress.” This is an expensive...
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IACS Awards for Academic Excellence 2016
Competition for awards to be given at the Eleventh International Congress of Coptic Studies, to be held in Claremont, California (U.S.A.), 25–30 July 2016. The International Association of Coptic...
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Micrography in Hebrew Manuscripts
The BL has just put up a new website for their digitized Hebrew manuscripts (mentioned here). You can now filter by Hebrew Bible manuscripts. There are 13 in all, seven of which are scrolls. There are...
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Museum of the Bible Job Posting
Research Projects Coordinator Beginning 01 August 2016, the research projects coordinator of the Scholars Initiative, located in Oklahoma City, OK, will coordinate with the executive and associate...
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Why a Written Gospel?
The question is sometimes asked as to why the Gospel tradition was ever written down in the first place. Writing may have obvious advantages to those of us who live in Gutenberg’s world, but some...
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Is the Longer Ending of Mark Inspired? (with Poll)
For some, the question of whether Mark 16.9–20 belongs to the original text of Mark’s Gospel settles the matter of whether it should be read, preached, and taught as Scripture. For others it’s not so...
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Warfield's Review of Westcott & Hort
Princeton Seminary has put their old journals online. These go back to 1825 with the Biblical Repertory. There are plenty of essays from the bright lights of Old Princeton. Among the articles is...
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First Use of the Term Ausgangstext
So far as I know, no one has written more trying to tease out the term Ausgangstext (translated as “initial text”) than Eldon Epp has in his essay for J.K. Elliott’s Festschrift.There (p. 54) he...
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How Many Variants Make It into Your Greek New Testament?
Greek students sometimes get the wrong impression that their Nestle-Aland apparatus records all the variants for the New Testament. I certainly thought this at one point. And it’s not just students. I...
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135 Years Ago Today
Today marks the 135th anniversary of the publication of Westcott and Hort’s momentous edition The New Testament in the Original Greek. The date was May 12, 1881 (see FB discussion here). Later in the...
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