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Audio from our ETS Session on Apologetics and Textual Criticism
Credit to Matt Solomon for the action shotThe audio from my and Elijah Hixson’s special session at ETS a week or so ago is now online. The session was titled “Growing Up in the Ehrman Era: Retrospect...
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Red skies in Matt 16.2–3: original or not?
What do folks think about the long variant in Matt 16.2–3? NA28 along with Tischendorf and WH have it in brackets. SBLGNT, THGNT (and Tregelles), and RP include it. UBS4 gives it a “C” rating.Here is...
View ArticlePope Francis on μὴ εἰσενέγκῃς ἡμᾶς εἰς πειρασμόν
There’s been quite a lot of press excitement about Pope Francis wanting to change the translation of Lord’s Prayer (The Telegraph, The Times, etc.). It wasn’t easy to find the original interview...
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Should we preach and teach the story of the woman caught in adultery?
If the story of the woman caught in adultery in John 7.53–8.11 is not original to the fourth Gospel, as I think, does it follow that it should not be used as Scripture? The same question confronts us...
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The Appeal to the Autograph in Early Protestant Theology
Back when I had time for such things, I did a bit of digging into how early Protestant theologians viewed the role of the autographs in their doctrine of Scripture. For Evangelicals, the qualification...
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Tertius, Romans 16.22 and Grotius' Conjecture
I've been doing some work in the last couple of days on my SBL paper ('Epistolary Secretarial Greetings in the Documentary Papyri and the Greeting from Tertius in Romans 16.22'*) so that I can submit...
View ArticleAn ‘Unanticipated Discussion of CBGM and P45’
Some of my students brought this video to my attention yesterday. It is James White, a well-known apologist and debater in the States, discussing the CBGM on his show The Dividing Line. Starting at...
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‘You will call his name Jesus’ (Matt 1.21 in Codex Vaticanus)
In a recent publication on the nomina sacra in Mark in Vaticanus (see here) Peter Malik notices that there are only five places in the New Testament portion of Codex Vaticanus where Ἰησοῦς is not...
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The problem with digitizing our discipline
There is much rejoicing about the benefits of computer technology for the humanities in general and for New Testament textual criticism in particular. I too rejoice as I suspect you do. Who among us is...
View ArticleNews: IGNTP Releases 350 Transcriptions of Manuscripts
Here is a pressrelease from the International Greek New Testament Project (IGNTP) announcing that 350 transcriptions can be downloaded and are freely available for re-use:Open Data Release by the...
View ArticleMerry Christmas!
Thankfully, you don’t have to have gold, Frankenstein, or myrrh to celebrate the birth of Jesus. To all our blog readers, merry Christmas and a happy 2018!
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Saving Manuscripts from ISIS
On Christmas Eve, the American news magazine, 60 Minutes, aired a good segment on the work of Father Columba and Father Najeeb Michaeel to save manuscripts in Northern Iraq. Father Columba runs the...
View ArticleParagraphing and Formatting in Nestle-Aland
The arrival of the THGNT has provoked us to think afresh about matters we normally take for granted like orthography, paragraphing, and even punctuation. With that provocation in mind, I was interested...
View ArticleSummer Course in Papyrology
SUMMER COURSE IN PAPYROLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, 18–22 JUNE 2018 The Dept. of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo and the Papyrus Collection of the University of Oslo...
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A simpler yearly Bible reading plan
I’m not one for new year’s resolutions, but I do like to set concrete goals from time to time. One that I started several years ago was to read through my Greek New Testament at least once a year. I...
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Applying CT scans to a Coptic manuscript of Acts
A few years ago I blogged about the work of W. Brent Seales, a computer scientist at the University of Kentucky, who has found a way to read manuscript texts using CT scans. Back in 2015 he used it to...
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Why Westcott and Hort gave special treatment to the woman caught in adultery
Not long ago, we discussed on the blog whether or not the story of the woman caught in adultery (John 7.53–8.11) should be read and taught as Scripture. I remain somewhat torn myself though I lean...
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Nothing new under the (skeptical) sun
The Swiss Protestant divine, Louis Gaussen (1790–1863) Sometimes it’s useful to remember that most of objections to the Bible have been raised before. It provides some perspective, especially to those...
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Trismegistos Words: New Tool for seaching Documentary Papyri
There is a new tool in town for searching morphological analysis of 5 million words in the Duke Database of Ducmentary Papyri. I’ve only been able to have a brief play around so far (on αὐθεντέω which...
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Peer-reviewing the peer review—why not?
The seeming dullness of our subject area inevitably limits the number of books a typical text-critic writes in their lifetime. Article-writing, then, is one of the fundamental ways in which we unleash...
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