Musing about the New Testament
People sometimes wonder whether ‘The New Testament’ is a New Testament concept. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts in the comments. But I’ve been musing on this.The basic shape of the New...
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Hort’s Review of Burgon’s Last Twelve Verses
In 1871, F. J. A. Hort wrote a short review of Dean Burgon’s well-known defense of the longer ending of Mark in The Last Twelve Verses of St. Mark. The review itself isn’t especially noteworthy. Hort...
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A Case for the Longer Reading at Ephesians 5.30?
The 5–7th century correction (“Ca”) in SinaiticusLast night while reading Ephesians, I came across a variant I don’t remember seeing before. I was surprised that it wasn’t adopted as the main text...
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Hendel: The Shared Origin of Modern Textual Criticism and Inerrancy
This is now a few days late for Reformation Day, but Ronald Hendel, editor-in-chief of the Hebrew Bible: Critical Edition (HBCE), has just put an article online that should be of particular interest to...
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Tischendorf’s ‘Wounded Vanity’?
In 1858, Hort reviewed the latest editions of both Tischendorf and Tregelles. He was much more positive about the latter than the former. In closing, he says this about Tischendorf:Both editors in fact...
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First Annual ETC Lunch at ETS
Next week is the annual ETS and SBL conferences in San Antonio. If you have never been to the annual ETC blog dinner at SBL, this is your year to come. I think you’ll find that folks are welcoming and...
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New Articles and Reviews in the TC Journal
Volume 21 (2016) of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism is now complete (the whole issue is here).Two new articles and five new reviews have just been added. As one of the editors I must say...
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The main text of the Greek New Testament produced at Tyndale House, whose principal editor is Dirk Jongkind is now complete except for peer review and some minor spelling adjustments. I thought it...
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Le Nouveau Testament en syriaque Conference
Obviously this is too late for anyone wanting to attend, but the Society for the Study of Syriac organizes a “round table” every year and today they are meeting on the topic of the Syriac New...
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ETS 2016 Recap
Thanks to all who came out to our first annual ETC at ETS lunch. It was a great success. Alas, there were no speeches, but the food was excellent. Truly a highlight for me so far.Even better though was...
View Article‘Business Insider’ on the Bible’s Transmission
A friend sends this short video from Business Insider and asks, “Is it rubbish?” Since I’m traveling, I thought I would let our astute readers answer for me. Note that it features ETC blog contributor,...
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The Difference Ultraviolet Makes
This is from the last page of GA 720, a 12th century Gospels manuscript digitized by CSNTM. It’s a particularly good example of the difference ultraviolet light can make.
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Interesting Material from the Archives at Westcott House
Westcott House in the summerThis morning I spent some time going through a cabinet of material from B. F. Westcott kept at Westcott House in Cambridge (see here for details). Westcott founded the...
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Dead Sea Scroll Forgeries in Your Favorite Bible Software?
Dead Sea Scrolls in AccordanceOver at the Lying Pen of Scribes blog, Årstein Justnes has posted a list of forged Dead Sea Scrolls that have made their way into modules for Accordance, BibleWorks, and...
View ArticleVetus Latina Workshop, 15-16 December, Wuppertal
Vetus-Latina-Workshop des Graduiertenkollegs am 15.-16.12.2016ProgrammAlle Veranstaltungen finden in den Räumlichkeiten der Kirchlichen Hochschule Wuppertal/Bethel statt (Hörsaal 4 und 5).Donnerstag,...
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Depiction of Crucifixion (SBL Report)
At SBL I enjoyed the session discussing Peter Lampe's book, From Paul to Valentinus: Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries (Fortress Press, 2003) (S19-340:Polis and Ekklesia: Investigations of...
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Ryrie’s Bibles at Auction
Dan Wallace was apparently at Sotheby’s for yesterday’s auction of Charles Ryrie’s amazing Bible collection. Dan reports:Ryrie did not own junk. His printed books were in excellent condition. The...
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Review of Brotzman and Tully’s Old Testament Textual Criticism (Meade)
Over at the Books as a Glance website, our one-time (corr: two-time) ETC blogger, John Meade, has a detailed review of the new updated edition of Ellis Brotzman’s Old Testament Textual Criticism: A...
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ETC Blog on the ‘Naked Bible Podcast’
One of the things I did while at SBL was sit down with Michael Heiser for an interview on his “Naked Bible podcast.” We talked about what makes the ETC blog Evangelical, about CSNTM, the CBGM, and...
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British Library and Copyright
The following caught my interest from the BL blog:“Readers may be surprised to learn that most medieval manuscripts held at the British Library are still in copyright until 2039 under the 1988...
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