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Jerome’s Bibliology and the Greek Additions to Esther
Jerome of Stridon translated the Hebrew text into Latin in the late fourth and early fifth century. The book of Esther is in Jerome’s canon, as it was in most early Christians’, but there was the...
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Evaluating Ehrman’s Comparative Argument for Textual Unreliability
We have discussed at some length on this blog the value (or lack thereof) of what I called the comparative argument for the reliability of the NT text. In particular, we discussed Bart Ehrman’s three...
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Tregelles’s Mustard Seed
In his delightful book American Greek Testaments: A Critical Bibliography of the Greek New Testament as Published in America, Isaac Hall has this to say about the importance of S. P. Tregelles:The...
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Paragraph Break at Greek Esther 2:5?
In a comment to a previous post, Peter Head noted the presence of reading aids on a page of the Esther part of Ra 967. I have now looked at the available digital images for Esther, and it is clear that...
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Present Trends in Textual Criticism … from 1962
Harry OliverHaving just written a very short article on developments in New Testament textual criticism, I was curious to come across an article on the same subject by Harold Oliver from 1962. He...
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Maurice Robinson: The source of the Pericope Adulterae insertion in GA 1333
PA in GA 1333. View in NT.VMRMaurice Robinson sends the following email which he has asked me to post here.James Snapp happened to ask me about MS 1333, where a later scribe inserted the PA on a blank...
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The Future of New Testament Textual Scholarship (ed. G. V. Allen)
A new book is in the pipeline, to be published i December (or will it be available for the SBL in November?). The Future of New Testament Textual Scholarship: From H. C. Hoskier to the Editio Critica...
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The Septuagint at the Denver Meetings
It’s that time of year again when those presenting at the society meetings begin to panic because they now wonder how they will write those papers they proposed several months ago. At least that’s what...
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Call for Papers for 2019 IOSOT Meeting at University of Aberdeen
The International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament has posted its call for papers for the meeting to be hosted by the University of Aberdeen on August 4–9 2019. Of course, the meetings...
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An Affordable Reissue of Letis’s The Ecclesiastical Text
If you’re interested in the intersection of theology and textual criticism, you might want to know about a recent reissue of Theodore Letis’s 1997 book The Ecclesiastical Text: Criticism, Biblical...
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2,000-Year-Old Hebrew Inscription Contains Rare Spelling of Jerusalem
Several sources today reported on an inscription dated to the Second Temple period that contained the word “Jerusalem,” but I couldn’t find an actual transcription of the three short lines. I offer my...
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ETC Interview with Caio Peres
In this installment of the ETC interview series, we diverge from our normal practice of interviewing established text critics to interview a (recent) student. I met Caio Peres through my wife and we...
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Forthcoming Festschrift for Harry Gamble
Next month SBL Press has a Festschrift for Harry Gamble coming out. I can’t find a table of contents for it so, if anyone knows what’s in it, let me know in the comments, please. The table of contents...
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Benjamin Laird Reviews Biblical Canon Lists in JETS
Another review of The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity has appeared. Benjamin Laird of Liberty University's School of Divinity has reviewed it positively in the most recent issue of JETS...
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Codex Claromontanus and Romans 1.29 in NA28
My Greek students have just finished a text critical assignment on the variant in Rom 1.29 involving πορνείᾳ πονηρίᾳ πλεονεξίᾳ κακίᾳ κτλ. One of the things I’ve done is compare the NA26 apparatus to...
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Textus now Published by Brill
Brill has recently picked up the publication of Textus: A Journal on Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible. Here is the description:The importance of the discipline of textual criticism received an...
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New Testament TC Papers at ETS
The Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society is coming up (13–15 November), and the schedule is online here. I did a search for the New Testament TC papers and tried to include them all...
View ArticleMOTB Press Release on Fake Dead Sea Scrolls
I cite here the following excerpt from a Museum of the the Bible press release. WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2018—Today Museum of the Bible announced the results of third-party analysis of five of its 16 Dead...
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Third Annual ETC Lunch at ETS
In Cambridge they used to say that it only takes three years of doing something before you’ve started a new tradition. I don’t know if that’s true, but this year we are going to host our third annual...
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Methodology in Transcribing Greek Manuscripts
About two weeks ago I participated in a meeting in Volos, Greece, with the groups that are currently editing the Novum Testamentum Graecum Editio Critica Maior (from Münster, Birmingham, and...
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