Steve Whatley on Orthographical Variation
The inclusion of the orthographical variants into CNTTS' apparatus has made it possible for my capable colleague Steve Whatley to analyze orthographical tendencies of specific manuscripts within the...
View ArticleScience and New Testament Manuscripts
At the moment I am busy writing my seminar for tomorrow's event hosted by the Faraday Institute in my own College. I have had tremendous fun preparing so far. Here is the full blurp, I believe there...
View ArticleReading the Earliest Copies of 2 Peter
T. Callan, 'Reading the Earliest Copies of 2 Peter' Biblica 93.3 (2012), 427-450.Summary: An examination of the three earliest extant copies of 2 Peter (namely those found in Papyrus 72, Codex...
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Online Bible Tool with Eusebian Canon Data
Troy Griffiths at the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) in Münster, who has been involved in the CrossWire Bible Society for many years in order to provide free, open-source resources...
View ArticleOhio State University Online King James Bible Exhibit
Ohio State University Library has posted an online exhibit about "the prehistory and abiding impact of the King James Bible." The exhibit covers the prehistory of the KJV as well as the KJV itself....
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GBP 1.200.000, anyone?
After selling the Codex Climaci Rescriptus some time back, Westminster College in Cambridge continues to sell off the silverware. Again the historic donations of the Lewis sisters are sacrificed to the...
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Imagining letters on parchment - Minuscule 2412
These days I am more surprised to find that a manuscript is not online than to find it is. Chicago has lots of good stuff including highres images of Minuscule 2412. Most of the pages have a white...
View ArticleIslamic apologetics book on NTTC
A kind correspondent has drawn my attention to Sami Ameri's book Hunting for the Word of God, which is featured on its own website. You can watch an introductory video with its compelling music...
View ArticleEditio Critica Maior: changes between the 1st and 2nd editions
The 28th edition of the Nestle-Aland text presents, for the Catholic Epistles, the text of the 2nd edition of the Editio Critica Maior (not yet published). A comparison of the text of ECM1 with the...
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Online lecture New Testament Textual Criticism
With some trepidation (and aware of some of the inaccuracies) I give you the promised link to the talk I gave for the Faraday Institute two weeks ago (this should lead you to the Cambridge University...
View ArticleOxford Conference on Garima Gospels
There is a fascinating two-days-conference in Oxford at the beginning of November, presenting the earliest known Ethiopic Gospels, the so-called Garima Gospels. It seems that the Ethiopican dark age...
View ArticleEighth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament5-6...
The Eighth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament is rapidly approaching, taking place in Birmingham on 5-6 March 2013.On this page (University of Birmingham) you find just...
View ArticleActs 21:5 and (Variants) within Variants
A little lesson on the use of brackets ( . ) in the apparatus of NA28.In Acts 21:5 the text reads either (with selected evidence for the word order variation ημας εξαρτισαι from NA28 [mainly]):οτε δε...
View ArticlePresentation of NA28 (SBL Chicago)
Following up on Mike Holmes' post on the changes between the 1st and 2nd editions of the Editio Critica Maior, this blogpost summarizes the presentation by Klaus Wachtel of the INTF, Münster, at the...
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Facsimile Edition of the Korça Codex 93 (GA 2902)
A beuatiful facsimile edition of the Korça Codex 93 (=GA 2902), now deposited in the National Archive of Albania in Tirana, has recently been published in 1300 copies. Here are some extracts from the...
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Resources for Patristic Citations in New Testament Textual Criticism
Some seven years ago, Peter Head compiled a useful blogpost with advice on how to check patristic citations (link in the right margin).However, in this post I would like to mention two additional...
View Article"Theological Palaeography"? Reassessment of the Dating of NT Papyri
A very controversial issue is the date of the early papyri of the NT. On his blog, Larry Hurtado summarizes a very important recent article on the subject of "theological palaeography":Pasquale Orsini...
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PapPal: New Resource for Ancient Paleography
In a comment to the previous post on a reassessment of the date of the early NT papyri, Christian Askeland mentioned a new resource for the study of ancient paleography, PapPal, which certainly...
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Shape-Shifting Jesus
M 610Owen Jarus of Live Science begins his article, "A newly deciphered Egyptian text, dating back almost 1,200 years, tells part of the crucifixion story of Jesus with apocryphal plot twists, some of...
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Who did what?
Sometimes it is a pain to get your head around what a manuscript actually reads, especially when there are corrections involved. The image below is from the Codex Ephraemi rescriptus 'C', though it is...
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