7th Lincoln College Summer School of Greek Palaeography
Georgi Parpulov has announced the 7th Lincoln College Summer School of Greek Palaeography.The school is intended for students of Classics, Patristics, Theology, Biblical or Byzantine Studies. Potential...
View ArticleRobinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform on the web
Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen has sent me an announcement:The Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, along with various resources developed by Maurice A. Robinson, have a new home on the web at...
View ArticleMatthew 2:15 and the Hexapla
We all know Matthew’s citation of Hosea 11:1 in Matthew 2:15, ‘Out of Egypt I called my son’ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου ἐκάλεσα τὸν υἱόν μου.The exact form of the citation is not how you find it in your Septuaginta...
View ArticleMS Contents: NT Text and Material Document
Perusal of the LDAB over the past several days has yielded some interesting results in researching the contents of “NT MSS.” In the process, it has become clear that the Nestle-Aland edition and, even...
View ArticleRichard Fellows’s measurements of the Vaticanus paragraphoi
Over on his blog, Richard Fellows has written up the results of his measurements of the paragraphoi in Vaticanus and plotted them against the measurements of Philip Payne from his recent NTS article....
View ArticleBrief review of Bible Nation
Over the weekend I managed to read the new book by Candida Moss and Joel Baden called Bible Nation: the United States of Hobby Lobby.The book is an attempt to understand the motivations and actions of...
View ArticleWuppertal Coptic Intensive 2018
For those of you who have been lying awake all night, lamenting your ignorance of the Coptic language, the solution is at hand. I will be teaching a two-week intensive introduction to Sahidic Coptic...
View ArticleA New Approach to Textual Criticism – A Book that Will Keep You Awake
It is now possible to order my and Peter Gurry’s introduction to the CBGM from the SBL website or from Amazon.Authors: Tommy Wasserman and Peter J. GurryISBN: 9781628371994Price: $19.95Binding:...
View Article2017 SBL Boston Blog Dinner
Your SBL Boston 2017 experience will not be complete without the annual ETC blog dinner, which will take place at 7:30pm Mon 20 Nov at the Hard Rock Café. Please purchase your ticket online ASAP....
View ArticleNew Book: The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity
The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity: Texts and Analysis (OUP) by yours truly and Ed Gallagher releases in the UK this week (see the preview on Google Books here; see Amazon UK here; see...
View ArticleBrian J. Wright on Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus
Today I’m happy to introduce a guest post from Brian J. Wright who is currently an adjunct professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He has a forthcoming...
View ArticleSecond Annual ETC Lunch at ETS
Last year we started a new tradition with an ETC lunch at ETS (Evangelical Theological Society). It was good fun so I thought we should do it again. This is especially for those who can’t attend SBL...
View ArticleThe ‘beginning’ of the gospel and minuscule 1241
The opening line of Mark’s Gospel is of interest for several reasons. One is, of course, the famous variant at the end of 1.1 involving “son of God.” But another is its use of εὐαγγελιον to refer to...
View ArticleSBL Sale on A New Approach to Textual Criticism
The SBL has just launched their annual meeting book sale for SBL members, and even our new book, A New Approach to Textual Criticism is included. The discount price is $13.97 for the paperback (−30%)...
View ArticleWhere does the Parable of the Sower begin? (Mark 4:3)
In the Greek New Testament, Produced at Tyndale House, Cambridge (THGNT) we made the decision to begin the Parable of the Sower in Mark’s gospel with the second, not the first, word of Jesus’s speech....
View ArticleSome accents to note
Romans 16:5 Ἐπαινετὸν τὸν ἀγαπητόν μου not Ἐπαίνετον τὸν ἀγαπητόν μου.03061047571424Matthew 7:10 ἰχθῦν αἰτήσει not ἰχθὺν αἰτήσει (of course this affects the nominative and accusative singular of ἰχθῦς...
View ArticleInitial thoughts on the Tyndale House Greek New Testament
Dan Wallace, Larry Hurtado, James Snapp, Todd Scacewater, and Brice Jones have all given us their first impressions on the Tyndale House Greek New Testament (THGNT) and, since I have now had some time...
View ArticleDigital ECM Acts now online
Last night in Boston many of us experienced an eschatological moment, as Holger Strutwolf called it, when he officially launched the digital ECM for Acts. (Perhaps one of my co-bloggers can add a...
View ArticleTyndale House Greek New Testament intro video
Crossway has produced a nice video with Pete and Dirk introducing and explaining the new Tyndale House edition of the Greek New Testament.
View ArticleElijah Hixson discovers lost text in Codex Bezae
At SBL this week, Elijah Hixson presented his discovery of lost text in Codex Bezae. The full research is forthcoming in New Testament Studies, but you can read about how Elijah found the missing text...
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