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Blogging the Tyndale House Edition of the Greek New Testament
Over at the Tyndale House website, we are now hosting a blog dedicated to the Greek New Testament we have been preparing. This blog will be devoted to that project only, but rest assured, with the...
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ETC Interview with Thomas Hudgins
I’m happy to present another installment of our ETC interview series. Today’s interview is with Thomas W. Hudgins who is Assistant Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Capital Seminary and...
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Congrats to Mike Holmes on His Retirement!
Thanks to Juan Hernandez, news has reached the interwebs that Mike Holmes is retiring from his position at Bethel University. Mike’s work hardly needs an introduction at this blog so I will instead say...
View ArticleThe Greek New Testament Produced at Tyndale House: First Steps
Where do you start when preparing a Greek New Testament? Of course you can start absolutely from scratch, by typing in each and every letter and accent manually, with all the associated risks, but...
View ArticlePreserving the Cairo Geniza: Video
As part of its new exhibition on the Cairo Genizah, the Cambridge University Library has put together a nice video on the process of conserving this extensive collection of Medieval Hebraica. More info...
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Meet P132 and P133, Ephesians and 1 Timothy
P.Oxy. 5258 and 5259 are now P132 and P133. They contain text from Eph 3.21; 4.2, 14-16 and 1 Tim 3.13-4.8 and date to III/IV and III centuries, respectively. The editio princeps for each has been...
View ArticleSt Catherine's Monastery Manuscripts: Photographs online
Just a quick post to alert you to the fact that the Library of Congress has put its collection of photographs of manuscripts from St. Catherine's Monastery online. For example, here you will find 1,081...
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Tyndale House Edition: The Text of the New Testament, of an Edition, and of a...
Lots of ink has been spilled and many pixels been lit up on the question of what we mean when we say ‘the text of the New Testament’. Is the only thing we are left with ‘texts of the NT’, in which...
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What Is the Value of the Comparative Argument for the Reliability of the NT...
There is a common apologetic argument that says we should be far less skeptical about the text of the NT than we are for the text of other classical works since we have far more and far earlier...
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Inerrancy and Textual Criticism
I have been reminded that some time ago I promised to open a discussion on the relationship between inerrancy and textual criticism. This is it. I’ll start with my thoughts and hope that others will...
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Krister Stendahl Working on the Textual Apparatus
Life Magazine (26 Dec 1955) featured an article by Alfred Eisenstaedt on Harvard Divinity School, “Harvard Revival. Back in touch with life of the churches its Divinity School gains a new vigor.” The...
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Publication and Textual Criticism
1st-2nd cent. inkwell (credit)M.D.C. Larsen, ‘Accidental Publication, Unfinished Texts and the Traditional Goals of New Testament Textual Criticism’ JSNT 39 (2017), 362–387.Abstract: Notions of...
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Tyndale House Edition: Getting the Readings Right
A textual apparatus is useful as a quick summary of the evidence at a particular location and also to raise questions as to unexpected manuscript combinations or readings. However, by its very nature,...
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Editio Critica Maior: Acts announced
The Editio Critica Maior for Acts appears in the latest German Bible Society catalogue (HT: Greg Paulson on FB). It is due for publication in August 2017. We look forward to this and encourage and...
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Missing Witnesses in Textual Flow Diagrams
After about 3½ years of studying the CBGM, I continue to learn new things about it. Sometimes I discover answers to question I was not even asking. This happened this week while reproducing the textual...
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“PAVONe” – Platform of the Arabic Versions of the New Testament
The Digital humanities Center at the University of Balamand has just launched “PAVONe”, Platform of the Arabic Versions of the New Testament. Here is the news piece with pictures of the launching...
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Tyndale House Edition: Romans 1:1 and Manuscript Tendencies
"Knowledge of documents should precede final judgement upon readings." Useful though this adage by Westcott and Hort is, it is also a little bit of an open door: lots of things should precede ‘final...
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Phoenix: The New Hotbed of Textual Criticism
Manuscripts love the heat—and so will youThe Gurry family has just landed in the blazing sun of Phoenix, Arizona where I will be teaching New Testament in the fall. By my count, this means that the...
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John Bunyan on the “True Copy” of the Scriptures
Here’s a little anecdote on how John Bunyan once responded to a Cambridge critic about his use of the English Bible:To these years before the Restoration belongs also the story of Bunyan’s encounter on...
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Error in NA28 apparatus (Phil 1.23)
I should say at the outset that finding errors in NA28 is rewarding because they are so few and far between, and because you are pitting your wits against the best in the business. Finding errors in...
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