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More Manuscripts from the Library of Congress (Montoro)
Earlier today, Peter Montoro alerted me to a new cache of manuscripts just published by the Library of Congress. Since Peter is more familiar with the contents than me, I asked if he would introduce...
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Jechoniah’s Uncle and the Text of 2 Chron 36.10
At the risk of flaunting my ignorance, I thought it might be worth discussing an interesting textual problem from the OT that I came across tonight. I actually stumbled on this while working on...
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Lists of Greek New Testament Manuscripts on Wikipedia
One of our readers, Darrell Post, has made a magnificent update of the Wikipedia articles for the Greek New Testament manuscripts divided into papyri, uncials and minuscules (three parts). These pages...
View ArticleWhat are text-types?
Do text-types exists or not? Tregelles and others thought not, CBGM folk don’t like the term either, but most scholars in the 20th century were perfectly fine with it.Martini (1977) surprised me with...
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‘Held in Honor’: The Roman Catholic View of Textual Criticism
While doing some reading tonight on Roman Catholic theology, I rediscovered my copy of Pope Pius XII’s 1943 encyclical Divino afflante Spiritu on the promotion of Biblical studies. There is much of...
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The Press of the Text: Festschrift for James W. Voelz
Back in May a Festschriftwas published in honor of James Voelz who has worked across many topics in his career including Mark’s Gospel, Greek grammar, and occasionally matters of text-critical...
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Where are they now? New Testament text-critics’ libraries
Eb. Nestle’s library (photo credit)Occasionally, one buys a book on Amazon or at a used book store and discovers with delight that it was owned by a famous scholar from times past. When I was at...
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The Problem of P38 and the ‘Western’ Text in Acts
In his published dissertation, Eldon Epp was interested in theological tendencies in Acts. In particular, he was interested in theological tendencies in the “Western” text. (From here on, I’ll forgo...
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“Daniel” in Select Codices
I have written elsewhere on the (in)significance of the codex for determining the boundaries of an ancient’s canon of Scripture. Probably, historical anachronism has occurred, and we have foisted the...
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More Payne, no gain on the distigmai
Supposed distigmai-obeli in 03In the latest NTS, Philip Payne has published an expanded form of his 2015 ETS paper on Vaticanus and its supposed use of “distigme-obelos” symbols to mark additions in...
View ArticlePayne Again on Punctuation
Last week co-blogger Peter Gurry turned our attention to Philip B. Payne’s recent article in New Testament Studies: “Vaticanus Distigme-obelos Symbols Mark Added Text Including 1 Corinthians 14.34–5,”...
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Trovato on why we need to face the ‘awkward problem’ of conjectural emendation
The following post is from Paolo Trovato who has been a welcome contributor to the comments the last few months. It can be good to have an outside perspective sometimes and that is what Paolo gives us....
View ArticleTyndale House Greek NT: Mark available
With about 6 weeks to go before the publication of the Greek New Testament, Produced at Tyndale House, Cambridge, we now have the gospel of Mark available for download from Crossway (scroll to bottom...
View ArticleThe most learned TC blog post ever?
For those who like detailed philology, I'd like to highlight the post by the extremely learned Patrick James over at the Greek New Testament, Produced at Tyndale House blog. The brief summary: print...
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More on Forged Dead Sea Scrolls, or ‘The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife saga times 70’
The Times of Israel has a lengthy article out yesterday on forged Dead Sea Scrolls in the Museum of the Bible collection, the Schøyen collection, and elsewhere. Here are a few snippets, but the whole...
View Articleγεινομαι not γινομαι in Luke
One of the claims we’re making in the THGNT is that at the time of the New Testament there was a distinction (or at least a partially preserved distinction) between short and long [i], with the latter...
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The New Testament Canon and Manuscripts
In this post, I briefly lay out some of Michael Kruger’s argument for the NT canon from the MSS to evaluate its worth for determining early canonicity of NT books. This is a pilot post, not finished...
View ArticleWhy give Abraham a rough breathing?
cross posted from the blog The Greek New Testament. Post by P.J. Williams.The question of whether to give Abraham a rough or smooth breathing is difficult. Manuscripts differ. We could say that it...
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Isaiah: rough or smooth?
Ever wondered whether Isaiah should have a rough or smooth breathing? Wonder no more. Mss I consulted were univocal:
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What hath Codex to do with Canon? A Rejoinder to Michael Kruger
UPDATE: this conversation is inching along with Michael Kruger’s response to my post here. I probably won’t pursue the matter any further with him presently due to time constraints. I do think matters...
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