Oxford Workshop
I wished I had the time for this (and for using the skills one is taught):Getting your hands dirty with the Digital Manuscripts Toolkit
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Lund on Ezekiel in the Antioch Bible (Peshitta)
In RBL, Jerome Lund reviews Gillian Greenberg and Donald M. Walter, trans. Ezekiel according to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2015).After two pages of...
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Origen on Textual Criticism and Biblical Authority
Over at his blog, Alex Poulos has posted an interesting translation of Origen’s sermon on Psalm 78 (LXX 77). The issue at hand for Origen involves the first verse: “I shall open my mouth in parables, I...
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TC Articles in the Latest Issue of NTS
From the latest issue of New Testament Studies, three articles on topics of interest to ETC readers.P45 and the Problem of the ‘Seventy(-two)’:A Case for the Longer Reading in Luke 10.1 and 17Zachary...
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On the Origin of the Pericope Adulterae in the Syriac NT
Here is an interesting detail about the origin of John 7.53-8.11 in the Syriac tradition. Apparently, in the excellent Mingana collection at the University of Birmingham, there is a “handsome and...
View ArticleP73 and its claim to be the most insignificant manuscript of the NT
If you never had a look at P73, one of the Bodmer papyri, I cannot blame you. Dated to the 7th century, and said to contain ‘text’ from Mt 25:43 and 26:2-3. In all only (traces of) 18 letters are...
View ArticleBirmingham Colloquium
Hope everyone’s having fun at the Birmingham Colloquium this week. From Hugh Houghton’s tweets, it looks like a great turnout this year. Wish I could be there. Also, can somebody help Elijah Hixson...
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Conference: Herman Hoskier and the Future of Textual Scholarship on the Bible
I meant to post about this when it was announced but forgot in the mix of other responsibilities. This looks like an outstanding lineup of speakers and I understand that a conference volume is...
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Hoskier Photos
More on Herman Hoskier courtesy of an email from Maurice Robinson. The mustache is quite impressive I must say. Here’s Maurice:I don’t think I can attach photos or the like in reply segments, but you...
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The Marginal dots of Vaticanus – Again
Every now and then I see the claim that the two dots that appear in the margin of Vaticanus indicate textual variants known by the original group of scribes. I believe that our own Peter Head agrees...
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Book Notice: A Companion to Byzantine Illustrated Manuscripts
This volume offers an overview of Byzantine manuscript illustration, a central branch of Byzantine art and culture. Just like written texts, illustrations bear witness to Byzantine material culture,...
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New Evidence for Earliest Tetraevangelion (Part 1)
Seven years ago, I presented a paper on SBL in Atlanta (2010) on "A Comparative Textual Analysis of 𝔓4 and 𝔓64+67" which was later published in the TC Journal vol. 15 (2010).Background to the paper...
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New Evidence for Earliest Tetraevangelion (Part 2)
Here is part 2 of my series, New Evidence for Earliest Tetraevangelion, as promised yesterday:
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More Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls in the US?
One of the 15 fragments. (Photo credit)Owen Jarus, who reported extensively on the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife fragment for Live Science, has an article today about 15 new Dead Sea Scroll fragments recently...
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Zach Cole Reviews Christian Oxyrhynchus
In lieu of our own Peter Head’s unsuccessful attempt to review Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, Documents, and Sources, I offer this snippet from Zach Cole’s new and helpful review in JETS (60.1):Foremost...
View ArticleMasoretic instructions on how to format the text
My colleague Kim Phillips has written another fascinating piece about a manuscript in the Cairo Genizah. Read it here
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Dániel Kiss on Uncertainty in Textual Criticism
Its [textual criticism] reputation for arbitrariness can probably be ascribed to the fact that having grown up in a late stage of the age of printing, we are used to carefully edited texts, and textual...
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Codex Sinopensis (O 023) Online
The following is another guest post from Elijah Hixson. He is currently writing a PhD thesis at the University of Edinburgh on the NT purple codices about which Jerome famously said, “parchmens are...
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3rd Summer School in Textual Criticism in Ferrara, Italy
(photo credit)Paolo Trovato sends word about his 3rd summer school in textual criticism. I attended part of last year’s school and can say it was a great experience. One of my favorite aspects is that...
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Attempted Attack on St. Catherine’s Monastery
Christianity Today reports of an attempted attack on the monastery of St. Catherine on Tuesday. ISIS has reportedly claimed responsibility. St. Catherine’s is, of course, the original home of Codex...
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