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Variants affecting carols
Can anyone cite instances where unusual variant readings have affected Christmas carols?More on Christmas variants.
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Publications and Other News
I’ve been busy lately with a cross-Atlantic move. So here are some things I’ve come across the last month or so but haven’t been able to blog about. Let me know if I missed...
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Top 10 Posts in 2016
These are the top ten most read posts for the blog in 2016 according to Google Analytics. Not all of these were written in 2016 of course. For last year’s list, see here.BREAKING NEWS: Archaeologists...
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Thinking about the Implications of the CBGM with Greg Lanier
Greg Lanier, a former compatriot at Cambridge, has two recent essays in the journal Reformed Faith & Practice (part 1 and part 2) doing one of the things he does best: explaining what’s happening...
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What Greek-Latin Edition Did Jefferson Use for His Famous Bible?
Here’s a question for our American history buffs. I’ve looked in the usual places online and can’t find anything on this, but maybe some of our readers know. I’m curious as to what Greek NT Thomas...
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The CBGM in One (!) Sentence
The discussion from the post last week on Greg Lanier’s thoughts on the CBGM was helpful I thought. In particular, it made me think again about how best to present the CBGM to those who find themselves...
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Call for Papers: Horizons in Textual Criticism
Pete Williams sends word of the following:Call for Papers: HORIZONS IN TEXTUAL CRITICISMConveners: Jan Joosten and John ScrenockOn 10-11 May, 2017, the University of Oxford will host a colloquium...
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A New Way to Travel in Oxford
Word has just reached the Americas of a new form of transit for getting around Britain’s oldest and second greatest university.Media outlets have reported that this new way of traveling is...
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50 Years of INTF’s Reports Online
For the past 50 years, INTF, the institute that produces the NA and now UBS editions, has published “reports” (Berichte) on their text-critical work. I came across these by accident one day at Tyndale...
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Textual Criticism as Rhetoric
From Richard Tarrant’s new book Texts, Editors, and Readers: Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism (reviewed in BMCR here):To classify textual criticism as a form of rhetoric is a way of...
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The New Christian Standard Bible and the NA28
Attendees to last year’s ETS meeting were given nicely bound copies of the new Christian Standard Bible (CSB) translation which releases in March of this year. The CSB is basically a revision of the...
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Variants on Forgiveness: Matt 18, Mark 11, and the Longer Reading
One of the positives of reading a Greek New Testament that lists variants but not the manuscripts that attest them is that it makes you pay more attention to internal evidence. I’ve been reading...
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Vaticanus’s “least doubtful” Byzantine impurity
The familiar text of Rom 11.6 as read in NA/UBS is found in P46 01* A C D F G P 1739 1881 lat co as follows:εἰ δὲ χάριτι, οὐκέτι ἐξ ἔργων, ἐπεὶ ἡ χάρις οὐκέτι γίνεται χάριςand if by grace, then it...
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2017 HBU Theology Conference
This year’s Houston Baptist University Theology Conference is March 2–4 on the topic “How the Bible Came into Being.”From the website:The Department of Theology at HBU, in conjunction with Lanier...
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Tyndale House Workshop in Greek Prepositions
From Will Ross and Steve Runge, a conference modeled after the well-done Greek verb conference from a few years back:Students and scholars of Greek have long wrestled with understanding the meaning of...
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The Septuagint Song
Yesterday was the 11th International Septuagint Day, see here and here. One of our readers, Brent Niedergall therefore wrote “The Septuagint Song” together with his music pastor Mac Lynch which he...
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New Website for the International Greek New Testament Project (IGNTP)
A brand new website of the International Greek New Testament Project (IGNTP) was launched this morning – the web address is the same www.igntp.org.The complete redesign was done by no other than our...
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Historical Jesus Studies and Textual Criticism
Historical Jesus studies and textual criticism are two subjects that one does not regularly think of together. But recently I was looking over my copy of Anthony Le Donne’s little book Historical...
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Two Third-Century Papyri in John 1:34
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Video: Cutting Open the Qumran Copper Scroll
This has been floating around my Facebook feed the last few days and I thought it was worth sharing here. It's from 1955. Watch it here.
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