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CSNTM: New Manuscripts On-line
News from the Centre for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (Robert D. Marcello):In November of 2011 CSNTM traveled to the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) in Florence Italy. This is a...
View ArticleBirmingham Postgrad call for papers
Drew Longacre has a call for papers for the 3rd University of Birmingham Biblical Studies Postgraduate Day Conference Call for Papers on his blog. Given the location (Birmingham, UK, not Alabama) and...
View ArticleBits and Pieces
Brice Jones has a new web-site with a blog and papyrological resources. On his blog he reviews the recent book The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status...
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New Review of The Early Text of the New Testament (Kruger & Hill)
Over at his new website, Brice Jones has published a review of The Early Text of the New Testament (eds. Kruger & Hill).I note with satisfaction that this reviewer "found the approach and format of...
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Birmingham Colloquium Report: The Leicester Codex (GA 69)
The 5th of March, 2013, the participants of the Eighth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament visited the Leicester Record Office in order to take a look at the famous...
View ArticleNewly Discovered Leaves of a Greek Lectionary
When examining an Armenian manuscript from Bzommar (n° 509, a Mashtots from the 16th Century) on the HMML website, I was surprised to discover three fly leaves from a Greek lectionary of the Gospels....
View ArticleHow Many TC Errors in This Statement?
We've played this game before. Someone submits a statement about TC from the BBC or some other news media, and we count how many errors are contained therein. But this time, it comes from a Hendrickson...
View ArticleIOSCS XV Congress in Munich
The program for the IOSCS Congress in Munich has been posted here. There is a very good lineup of presentations on the LXX for this congress. On day two I will present a paper for the section on...
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Biblia Graeca – Septuagint and NA28
Jim Spinti of Eisenbrauns tells me that the German Bible Society is going to publish Biblia Graeca– Septuagint and NA28 this fall.DescriptionThis edition combines the Rahlfs-Hanhart Septuagint (Greek...
View ArticleJETS Reviews of Recent TC/Canon Volumes
JETS Vol 56, No. 1 (March 2013): Review of M.J. Kruger's CANON REVISITED: ESTABLISHING THE ORIGINS AND AUTHORITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT BOOKS (Benjamin Laird); Review of L.M. McDonald's FORMATION OF THE...
View ArticleSBL Northwest Regional Conference, Seattle, May 3-5
I am giving a paper on the “Outer Margins of Nestle/Aland 28” for the Pacific Northwest Regional meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature at Seattle University in Seattle, Washington on Friday,...
View ArticleAnother review of The Early Text of the New Testament
Over at RBECS Edgar Ebojo has offered a careful review of Charles E. Hill and Michael J. Kruger, eds., The Early Text of the New Testament (Oxford: OUP, 2012). Among other things he pinpoints an...
View ArticleAn easy-to-miss minor improvement in NA28 - James 1:21
The text of James 1:21 has not undergone any change between the NA27 and NA28, but it has been improved anyway.This is how it is printed in NA27:διὸ ἀποθέμενοι πᾶσαν ῥυπαρίαν καὶ περισσείαν κακίας ἐν...
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Sponsor Peter Head in Swimathon 2013
Sponsor Peter Head in Swimathon, 26-28 April 2013 (click here)As you may know, co-blogger Peter Head has a long sporting career behind him. He came in 42nd place in the Olympic racewalking in Beijing...
View ArticleGalatians 2.20b reconsidered
The latest issue of Novum Testamentum has an interesting article:J. van Nes, '"Faith(fulness) of the Son of God"? Galatians 2:20b Reconsidered' NovT 55 (2013), 127-139.In this article van Nes argues...
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When can we say that a manuscript 'apparently' supports a reading?
Sometimes there is a certain amount of doubt what a manuscript reads at a particular point. If there is a variant reading and a manuscript has only a few of the letters but these letters fit with one...
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Ephesians 6.21 in Sinaiticus and NA28
Eph 6.21 in the NA28 has probably one of the most complex things ever seen in an apparatus. Whereas NA27 simply cited Sinaiticus in support of the txt at the word order variant: PANTA GNWRISEI UMIN...
View ArticleScrivener 1859
The pursuits of Scriptural criticism are so quiet, so laborious, that they can have few charms for the votary of fame, or the courtier of preferment: they always have been, perhaps they always must be,...
View ArticleA note on a spelling issue in Philippians 4.3
There are three spellings in the manuscripts: suzuge: P16 (suz[uge); )* B D1 E P Y (gnhsie kai suzuge) 075; and (with the word order: suzuge gnhsie): K L 049 056 0142 0150 0151; sunzuge: P46 )2[=ca]...
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When a correction is perhaps not a correction
Today I hit two places where the CNTTS apparatus claims that a manuscript has a correction, but where I had severe doubts in both cases. Not that I disagreed that the 'extra' words were written in...
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