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Happy First Day to Pete Head!
Happy first day to Pete Head who starts his new post today! When I left his new office yesterday it was... still a bit of a mess. But I have every confidence that at some point this week it will be...
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In Praise of Westcott and Hort’s Uncertainty
It’s not uncommon today to read criticisms of past textual scholars for their overconfidence. First among the guilty in this regard is often Westcott and Hort who titled their edition The New Testament...
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A Newly Customized VMR
Last week Troy Griffitts was in town and he showed me how to make a custom VMR. In the meantime he’s helped me do some extra editing as well and the result is that I’ve put together my own public...
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Textual Criticism on the Moon
Just to show that some of us are not the only ones procrastinating about the absence or presence of a single letter.“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”Read here
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Does Scripture’s Self-Attestation Apply to Textual Criticism?
The Reformed tradition has long held that one of the means by which Christians are convinced of Scripture’s divine origin is through the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit. This work of the Holy...
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A Bounty of Text Critical Reviews in the Latest NovT
Roughly the number of books J. K. Elliott reviews in a year.Here is a list of what is reviewed in the latest issue of Novum Testamentum with some snippets that caught my eye. All but one of these are...
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The Amsterdam Database of New Testament Conjectural Emendation is online
Over on τον βιβλιον του προσοπου, Jan Krans announces the public arrival of the Amsterdam Database of New Testament Conjectural Emendation. It has now been added to the NT.VMR. This is a fantastic...
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How long will it take to completely revise the Nestle edition?
We all know that the revisions to the Catholic Epistles were printed in the NA28 and that the revisions for Acts, John, and Revelation are underway as I write. But how long will it take to have a...
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Spirit Testimony
When Hoskier in his Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse talks about Spirit testimony, he means something different from what Peter Gurry was talking about (here).The following is taken from page...
View ArticleQuestion from Mike Holmes on the NRSV and UBS3
Mike Holmes sends this note for readers of the blog:In the preface to the NRSV, the Committee states that the NRSV is based on UBS3, and that “Only in very rare instances have we replaced the text ......
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The ESV Reverses Course
After announcing last month that they were not going to make any more changes to the ESV ever, Crossway publishers has reversed their decision. The original post has been removed, but it contained some...
View ArticleNew Article by Roberta Mazza on P39 (among other things)
Roberta Mazza, ‘Papyri, Ethics, and Economics: A Biography of P.Oxy. 15.1780 (P 39)’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologysts, 52 (2015), 113-142.Abstract: Discussion of the retrieval,...
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On the disappearance of accented indefinite τις
Nowadays students are routinely informed that there's only one accent which matters in Greek: τίς, τί and related forms mean 'who' and 'what', while τις, τι etc. mean 'a certain'.That's probably true...
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SBL 2016 San Antonio ETC Blog Dinner
That's right folks. It's that time again. Peter Williams has begun writing his speech. We have a reservation at the Hard Rock. The biggest event of the text-critical year approaches -- the ETC Blog...
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Principles for Revising the KJV
I spent the morning today looking through some of the minutes and papers from the revisers of the English Bible (i.e., the Revised Version). Unfortunately, I didn’t get to the minutes on the New...
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Mark 16 on a Roll
Many New Testament scholars consider Mark 16.8 to be the original ending of the gospel. Others regard the original ending as now lost. For those who think it’s lost, the most frequent explanation is...
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New Brill Series on Digital Biblical Studies
The first volume of a new series on Digital Biblical Studies has just appeared from Brill. It’s edited by Claire Clivaz, Paul Dilley and David Hamidović. Table of contents is here.I’ve only looked at...
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Dr. Charles Caldwell Ryrie’s Bible Collection to be Auctioned
NEW YORK, 6 October 2016—Sotheby’s is honored to announce the sale of one of the greatest private collections of printed and manuscript Bibles formed since the 19th century, The Bible Collection of Dr....
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The Value of Knowing the Bible’s Transmission History (Westcott)
Westcott’s words to clergy-in-training from his Lessons from Work(1901):2. The study [of the Bible] must be systematic, and again it must be thorough. Even the external history of the Sacred books...
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The Greek Text of the English Bible between 1611 and 1881
Two of the most significant English translations as far as the text of the New Testament is concerned are the Authorized or King James Version of 1611 and its revision, the Revised Version, published...
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