Museum of the Bible and Repatriation (GA 2120)
Yesterday, the Museum of the Bible (MOTB) posted a Facebook Live video featuring Brian Hyland, Associate Curator of Medieval Manuscripts. Hyland introduces GA 2120, a 12th-century minuscule of the...
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New Reader’s LXX on Sale
For readers who haven’t heard, Greg Lanier and Will Ross have a new, two-volume reader’s Septuagint coming out this fall called Septuaginta. You can learn more about the edition (which follows Rahlfs)...
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The Text-Critical Seminar at SNTS in Athens 2018
Today I am flying home from Athens where I have participated in the 73rd SNTS meeting including three sessions in the text-critical seminar. This was the fifth and final year of the seminar, chaired by...
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INTF’s New Blog
Against Pete Head’s advice, the INTF has started a blog. Here is the first post from Greg Paulson:The INTF has set up a new blog! Although we have featured blogs on our site before (as “Personal...
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Museum of the Bible and Dirk Obbink
Somehow I missed this, but back in June, Michael Press wrote an article exploring the latest mandatory tax filing from the Museum of the Bible. Most of the payments are not terribly surprising although...
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Where Orthography Affects the New Testament Text
Beginning Greek students are often shocked when they discover the gap between the formatting of their modern, printed New Testaments and our earliest Greek New Testament manuscripts. The letters are...
View ArticleHistory and Development of the Nestle-Aland Editions Funded
Good news out of Münster today. Greg Paulson has received funding to study the history and development of the Novum Testamentum Graece editions. Congrats, Greg! Now, how do I apply to be a research...
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Ninth century prequels to our current chapter system
The story is often told of how our chapter divisions go back to Stephen Langton in the early thirteenth century. That’s true enough, but it’s worth noting sometimes how close even earlier divisions can...
View ArticleSNTS Athens Response
Recenty I blogged about the three sessions in the text-critical seminar at the SNTS meeting in Athens which I chaired with Claire Clivaz. On the last day I responded to Juan Hernandez, who has...
View ArticleThe Text of Acts - Differences between Tyndale House Edition, ECM, and NA28
[warning: long post, you may want to skip to the conclusion at the end]A little while ago I posted an analysis of all differencesbetween the NA28 and the Editio Critica Maior of Acts. I have now made a...
View ArticleCraig Evans on Mark Fragment
Craig Evans was recently interviewed by the Veracity Hill program and in it he tells his side of the story about P.Oxy. 5345 (formerly “First-century Mark”). In terms of new info (at least I think it’s...
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Tragedy at the Brazil National Museum
Sunday night, the 200 year old Brazil National Museum in Rio de Janeiro caught fire and burned down. The GuardianreportsBrazil’s oldest and most important historical and scientific museum has been...
View ArticlePostdoc in Lausanne on Mark 16
A 4 year postdoctoral position is being advertised in Lausanne to work on the new project there on Mark 16 led by Claire Clivaz. Further details are here. It is a digital humanities post and is located...
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Rahlfs 967 of the Kölner Papyri of the Institute of Ancient History at the...
Ra 967, p. 197I am researching the reception history of Esther in early Jewish and Christian sources and have come to Rahlfs 967 (2nd/3rd), a papyrus MS containing (with lacunae) Ezekiel (pp. 10–61),...
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New Article: Quantifying Variants in the Apostolos
In the latest issue of NTS, Greg Lanier has an article expanding on my work estimating the number of variants. He takes a deep dive into the data from the ECM of the Catholic Letters and now Acts to...
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Reading Religion's Review of The Biblical Canon Lists
James E. Walters tweeted at me that his review of The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity: Texts and Analysis (OUP, 2018) has been posted at Reading Religion. You can read his review here. He...
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More Digital Humanities stuff: Digital Papyrology
About a week ago, Pete Williams posted an advertisement for a postdoc in a digital humanities project on Mark 16 based in Lausanne. Needless to say, digital humanities are a very prospective field of...
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Africanus–Origen Correspondence and the Form of Greek Daniel
As often happens in research, while investigating one topic, one becomes distracted by another. In several of my pursuits, the book of Daniel keeps surfacing, and I keep blogging on it. In this post, I...
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Peter Rodgers Reviews James Voelz on Mark
In a recent Catholic Biblical Quarterly, the blog’s own Peter Rodgers has reviewed the first volume of James Voelz’s commentary on Mark. It’s not often that a commentary review mentions textual...
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Alex Joffe on Why (Some) Academics Don’t Like the Museum of the Bible
Over at Mosaic, Alex Joffe writes this about some of the criticism of the Museum of the Bible:For academics, [at] issue [is their] loss of public authority over the Bible. The intellectual...
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