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The Biblical Canon Lists Reviewed by Lee Martin McDonald in RBL
Reviews of The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity keep coming out. See the earlier ones from Reading Religion and JETSrespectively. Last week, Review of Biblical Literature published Lee...
View ArticleBase Texts for Transcriptions Again
In a previous post on “Methodology in Transcribing Greek Manuscripts” I suggested that the use of two different base texts, Nestle-Aland and a Byzantine text like Oxford Textus Receptus 1873, for...
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An Unidentified Fragment
The text of the fragment below is unidentified; that is, unidentified by me; that is, I know something about it, but not where this text comes from.This is what I know. It is one of four parchment...
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2018 SBL Denver Blog Dinner
The day we’ve all been waiting for has arrived: the 2018 ETC blog dinner is on! Christian Askeland has faithfully served as our blog maitre d’ for many years now, but this year he was overworked (Mike...
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Bibliography of the Arabic Bible
Fresh from the Biblia Arabica project comes a new bibliography of the Arabic Bible which is said to be a classified and annotated history of scholarship. You can find it at biblia-arabica.com/bibl and...
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Helpful Review of Papyri.Info
In vol. 9 of the online journal RIDE there is a helpful review of Papyri.Info by Lucia Vannini. If you don’t know anything about Papyri.Info then this review is a good source for anybody interested in...
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The Quiet Renaissance in Textual Criticism
In the latest Didaktikos journal, I have a very brief article attempting to introduce fellow teachers of New Testament to some of the things happening in our discipline. To regular ETC readers, the...
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From a Text-Carrier to a Book Project
In his previous post, my erstwhile neighbour and fellow-postgraduate mentioned a brief article of mine that appeared in the second volume of Didaktikos. My task in this article was to write up a short...
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Collation Advice from the Past
Following from Tommy’s recent transcription suggestions, here is some advice on the subject from A. A. Vansittart, written to Hort on October 15, 1869.…. How I wish I had seriously taken to collating...
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Apocryphal Gospels and Textual Criticism: An Interesting Case of P.Egerton 2...
This forum is primarily concerned with textual criticism of biblical literature—and rightly so. Yet, the basic skills acquired in the course of studying biblical manuscripts can also come in handy when...
View ArticleAround the Blogs
Larry Hurtado took a significant break from his blog over the summer due to health issues, so it has been great to see him back in the blogosaddle recently and posting on a number of interesting...
View ArticleBlog Dinner: Get Tickets Now!
If you’re planning to come to the blog dinner this coming Monday night, now is the time to get tickets. The restaurant is going to ask me for a final headcount tomorrow and if you haven’t purchased...
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Bible as Notepad
I was pleased to lay my hands on this very recent collection of essays edited by Liv Ingeborg Lied and Marilena Maniaci. It is the third volume in De Gruyter’s new ‘Manuscripta Biblica’ series, edited...
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Blog dinner photos
We had another great ETC blog dinner this year at SBL with about 50 in attendance. There were a number of new faces this year which was great to see. Tommy and I both felt that this was the best venue...
View ArticleP28
Does anyone know where P28 is located (John 6:8–12, 17–22)? It is listed as being at Pacific School of Religion in Berklely, Cal. USA in NA 28 and also in the Tyndale House Greek New Testament, but the...
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Understanding and Teaching the CBGM
Thanks to Hugh for the photoFor SBL this year I was invited by the German Bible Society to present something related to mine and Tommy’s book on the CBGM. Since I’ve had several years now of trying to...
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Evidence of Canon Formation from Work-Combinations in NT Manuscripts?
Questions over the history of the formation of the New Testament canon continue to occupy researchers. While Dan Brown continues to promote the popular view that the Council of Nicaea or similar...
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Giveaway of the New Septuaginta: A Reader's Edition
Will Ross and Greg Lanier are giving away two copies of their newly published Septuaginta: A Reader's Edition. Enter the giveaway here. The publisher describes the new edition as follows:Septuaginta: A...
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Textual Criticism on the Cover of National Geographic
It’s not every day that the subject of our humble blog makes the cover of international magazines. But the December cover story of National Geographic is a well-written and apparently well-researched...
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