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What Is ‘Logically Impossible’ for the ECM?
The Editio Critica Maior defines a “variant” as a reading that is both “grammatically correct and logically possible.” If it doesn’t meet these two criteria it is marked with an f for Fehler (= error)....
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Color Images of P72 and P75 Online
Good news! Jean-Baptiste Piggin has discovered that, without any fanfare, the Vatican has just posted color images of both P72 and P75 on its website. Until now the only images I knew of were black and...
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What to do when a word is no longer in your manuscript
Looking at the variation in 1 Cor 3:5 I notice that NA28 lists P46 in support of the first τις as P46vid (from videtur), that is, it is the 'apparent reading, but not certain'.So how much of τις should...
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Coptologist Position at the American University in Cairo
The Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology and Egyptology Department (SAPE) is seeking a specialist in Coptic Studies (Coptology). Candidates must be able to teach the Coptic language and must also offer...
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Minuscule 1424 – Help: Is this a correction?
I could use some help.Here is minuscule 1424 at 1 Pet 4:11, located on the CSNTM website as GA_1424_0213b.jpg. [I haven’t found a way to navigate the CSNTM without wanting to end my life, but the image...
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2016 ISBL Paper Summaries
International SBL finished a few weeks ago in Seoul, South Korea. I did not go, but Jacob Peterson did and he has kindly agreed to summarize the text critical papers he attended for us. Thanks,...
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A couple of new books I am looking forward to reading at some point:Alan Mugridge, Copying Early Christian Texts: A Study of Scribal Practice (WUNT 362; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016).Blurb: It is...
View ArticleThe Composite Ancestry of the Big Codices
The study of those manuscripts that contain the text of all of the Greek Scriptures is still relatively underdeveloped. There are still plenty of questions to be asked about the Greek pandects of the...
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Kurt Aland against Voting in the ECM
This is from Aland’s 1970 article “Novi Testamenti Graeci Editio Maior Critica: Der gegenwärtige Stand der Arbeit an einer neuen grossen kritischen Ausgabe des Neuen Testamentes,” NTS 16 (1970): 163–77...
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Three Interesting Variants at Rev. 2.13 Not in Nestle
While doing some sermon prep last week I came across some interesting variants in Rev. 2.13. The NA28 reads:οἶδα ποῦ κατοικεῖς, ὅπου ὁ θρόνος τοῦ σατανᾶ, καὶ κρατεῖς τὸ ὄνομά μου καὶ οὐκ ἠρνήσω τὴν...
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First Museum of the Bible Volume Released with 13 Previously Unpublished Dead...
Pete Williams sent word yesterday that the first volume of the Publications of Museum of the Bible was published this week. Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments in the Museum Collection is edited by Emanuel Tov,...
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It’s Time to Stop Using Gothic Letters in Textual Criticism
A week or so ago my carrel-mate here at Tyndale was stumped for who knows how long by a Gothic letter “C” that looked a whole lot like Gothic letter “T” for “targum.”What finally gave it away was the...
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Colwell’s Reversal of Westcott and Hort on Singular Readings
E. C. Colwell (source)Westcott and Hort and E. C. Colwell are often connected in discussions of singular readings as they should be. But it’s not often appreciated how Colwell inverted WH’s primary...
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Upcoming Conference on Manuscript Forgeries in Kristiansand
On 14-16 September I will participate in a conference at the University of Agder in Kristiansand (Norway), Fragments of an Unbelievable Past? Constructions of Provenance, Narratives of Forgery–...
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New Series: Texts and Versions of the Hebrew Bible
Jim West notes a new series on the texts and versions of the Old Testament edited by Jim Aitken:Announcing a new sub-series of LHBOTS: Texts and Versions of the Hebrew BibleTexts and Versions of the...
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New Essays on Stemmatics in DSH
The latest issue of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (31.3) has a special section of stemmatics. I would particularly recommend the essays by Barbara Bordalejo and Peter Robinson which were...
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Review of Acts of the Apostles, Ethiopic Version
Jean-Louis Simonet sends word that he has published a critical review of Curt Niccum’s book, The Bible in Ethiopia. The Book of Acts(2014) in J-L. Simonet, ‘Le livre des Actes dans la Bible...
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Genizah Fragments and the Authorship of the Hebrew Bible
My colleague Kim Phillips has written a post on the ‘fragment of the month(?!)’ blog on a fascinating fragment in the Genizah. He has stacked his post with interesting things to know. Find the post here.
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Conference: Act of the Scribe: Interfaces between scribal work and language use
Act of the Scribe: Interfaces between scribal work and language use. A WorkshopDate: April 6–8, 2017 (+ excursion on Sunday, April 9, to be informed later)Venue: The Finnish Institute at Athens (Zitrou...
View Article3 new articles in BABELAO 5 (2016)
Three new articles appear in the open access journal BABELAO (Bulletin de l’Académie Belge pour l’Etude des Langues Anciennes et Orientales):Toan Do, 'Εἰδῆτε, ἴδητε, οἴδατε, and Scribal Activities in 1...
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