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Kruger on Ehrman’s Latest
Over at the Gospel Coalition, Mike Kruger has a review of Bart Ehrman’s latest book. It’s another popular volume, this one on why Christianity spread so quickly, a topic Kruger and his Doktorvater have...
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Alan Taylor Farnes on Scribal Habits in Copies with Extant Exemplars
We are delighted to feature the newly baked Dr. Alan Taylor Farnes in this guest blogpost where he summarizes his work on scribal habits in copies where the exemplar is preserved. Well done Dr....
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‘The copy is the original’
John Meade, who is currently gallivanting around North Carolina, alerted me to an article over at aeon which is relevant to this blog. It is about the different conception of “original” and “copy” in...
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We have a winner!
Congrats to Miguel M. who won our latest ETC blog giveaway. His copy of A New Approach to Textual Criticism is in the mail. For those that didn’t win, Amazon now has the paperback for just $13.28 which...
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New Book: The Earliest Perceptions of Jesus in Context
Below is the editors' overview of the new Festschrift for John Nolland: The Earliest Perceptions of Jesus in Context: Essays in Honour of John Nolland. Thanks to Aaron White for providing it.These...
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New Book in the Pipeline: Liturgy and the Living Text of the New Testament
Another new book on New Testament textual criticism is in the making: Liturgy and the Living Text of the New Testament: Papers from the Tenth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New...
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Panel on the Christian Biblical Canon at Southeastern
Southeastern Seminary has a series of Library Talks, which apparently take different forms. For this 'Library Talk', they asked me to be part of a panel with two of their faculty members, Steve...
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'Father Forgive Them' - The Variant in Luke 23:34a
THGNT Blog: Variants in the Passion Narrative (6)This is the last of a series of blog post [2018] on some of the textual variants found in the Passion narratives. The series discusses the rationale...
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New Contributor: Elijah Hixson
When I first started learning about textual criticism at seminary, textual criticism was not much more than one lecture on Romans 5:1 in intermediate Greek, and if you were lucky, an introductory...
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Visual Proof of the Original Reading at Mark 1.1
In honor of our newest blog member who is an expert in all manuscripts purple, here is something I noticed last week in class.It’s not uncommon for Gospels manuscripts to feature portraits of the...
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Maurizio Aceto and Scientific Analysis of Manuscripts
The John Rylands Library is running an exhibit through August 2018 called The Alchemy of Colour. They even have a series of short YouTube videos describing non-invasive ways that multi-spectral...
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Why Will the Last Be First? Reconsidering the Longer Reading at Matt 20.16
The parable of the laborers in the vineyard (Matt 20.1–16) closes with a repetition of the statement that immediately precedes it and is logically connected to (note γάρ in 20.1): “the last shall be...
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Why Does Michelangelo’s Moses Look Like That?
Translations have consequences. In Exodus 34:29, there is a fascinating example of the tension between the formal and functional renderings of the Hebrew text in the history of its translation. Here...
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Samples of Early Printed Greek
Last week I gave a quick tour of Greek New Testament type design over on the Twitter. This was inspired by the arrival of the book Greek Printing Types: 1465–1927: Facsimiles from an Exhibition of...
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Linguistics and New Testament Greek at Southeastern
Well, mark April 26–27, 2019 on your calendar because Southeastern Seminary is hosting a conference on Linguistics and New Testament Greek. Here is the description:This two-day conference is designed...
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Christian Biblical Canon Defined by Central Authority?
Timothy Lim has recently written a post for the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins blog (University of Edinburgh) entitled The Canonical Process Reconsidered (the post is a summary of a recent...
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Review of ‘Fragments of Truth’
The folks at Faithlife kindly send me a review version of their new documentary Fragments of Truth that comes out two weeks from today. The movie itself is lasts 115 minutes followed by about 30...
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Greg Lanier: Locating the Inspired ‘Original’ Amid Textual Complexity
Greg Lanier is an assistant professor and dean of students at Reformed Theological Seminary and a good friend of mine from Cambridge. Recently, he published a long article in JETS about a particularly...
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Festschrift for Geoffrey Khan freely available
The full text of the Festschrift for Geoffrey Khan, one of the world's leading Semitists, is now freely available here. In the opening essay of the volume I write about Semitic long /i/ vowels in...
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I recently came across this short video of Craig Evans interviewing Larry Hurtado. It appears to be made during the production of Evans' new documentary, Fragments of Truth (see Peter Gurry's review...
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