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Historic Editions Digitized in Münster
The Bible Museum in Münster digitized a number of important historical editions of the Bible from Erasmus’s first edition to the Luther Bible. Other important figures include Estienne, Bengel,...
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Why Didn’t God Preserve the Biblical Autographs?
In the volume on Holy Scripture in his studies in dogmatics, G. C. Berkouwer, theologian at the Free University of Amsterdam, has a few pages on textual criticism. The discussion follows that of his...
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New, Open Access Book on the Arabic Text of Paul
I just noticed this week that there’s a new book on the Arabic text of Paul. Included is a list of Arabic manuscripts of Paul and info about the digital edition of the main manuscript focus (Vat. Ar....
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Was P18 a Roll or a Codex? A New Article with Pictures in It!
It’s a well-known feature of the early Christian textual transmission that the vast majority of manuscripts are in codex format. There are a few odd-balls in the mix, one of which is P18 (P.Oxy. VIII...
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Giveaway: Three Copies of To Cast the First Stone
Princeton University Press has just released Tommy Wasserman and Jennifer Knust’s major new book on the Pericope Adulterae: To Cast the First Stone: The Transmission of a Gospel Story. I currently have...
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Review of David Daniels, Is the 'World's Oldest Bible' a Fake?
A couple of weeks ago during my trip to Denver for ETS/SBL, I read David W. Daniels' book, Is the "World's Oldest Bible" a Fake? I decided to write a review of it that I posted as an 'unpublished'...
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New Book on the Revised Version by Cadwallader
Alan Cadwallader has been working on a major book on the Revised Version for years now. I first became aware of his work when I visited Westcott House a few years ago and found that he had preceded me...
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John’s Bible Version in John 19:37?
I continue my series of highlighting places where a NT author cites the Old Testament but does not use the Old Greek/Septuagint (see 2 Cor 11:3; 1 Cor 15:54). In addition, I would propose that the NT...
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30+ Sessions of Dan Wallace on Textual Criticism—Free
A student of mine emailed to let me know that Credo House currently has a sale going on for Dan Wallace’s lecture series on textual criticism. I believe you still have to pay if you want the video...
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Papyrus Artemidorus in the News Again
This article has been updated (additions/substitutions in italics).In 2009 Peter Head wrote a short piece on this blog about the Artemidorus Papyrus. There has been an endless debate over the...
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Brent Nongbri Responds
Some of you may recall my recent post where I mention my recent article that briefly disputes Brent Nongbri’s case for P18’s greater likelihood of being a codex. Following this, Brent concocted a...
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New Review of THGNT
In the latest Puritan Reformed Journal, Jeffrey Riddle has a review of the THGNT which he has uploaded to Academia. I believe Jeff is a proponent of either the Majority Text or the Received Text (not...
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Pasquale Orsini’s New Book on Palaeography
I’d like to draw attention ever so briefly to Pasquale Orsini’s excellent Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books, published last month by De Gruyter (Studies in Manuscript Cultures...
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New Dissertation on the ‘Non-Aligned’ Dead Sea Scrolls
1QIsaa, col. XXXIIILast month, Anthony Ferguson (recent PhD graduate from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “A Comparison of the Non-Aligned...
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New Article on Revelation Papyri
P.Oxy. LXVI 4500 (GA 0308) By now, many of you will have been tired (or worse) of my yappings about Revelation manuscripts. I’m sorry, I can’t help it and, what doesn’t help matters, the text of...
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RIP Walter E.H. Cockle (1939–2018)
I was very sorry to hear via an announcement on the Papy-L discussion list that Walter E.H. Cockle has passed away on 6 December 2018. I first met Walter at the Fifth Birmingham Colloquium of Textual...
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James Ussher: Why Unsolved Variants Don’t Obscure the Faith (1649)
As time allows (and it doesn’t allow much these days), I continue to be interested in how theologians in the Reformation period and after dealt with the problems of textual criticism. Lately, that...
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Princeton: Scribal Habits in Middle Eastern Manuscripts Workshop
Scribal Habits in Middle Eastern Manuscripts WorkshopVenueInstitute for Advanced Study, PrincetonDateMay 9–11, 2019ConvenersSabine Schmidtke and George A. Kiraz (Institute for Advanced Study)Most...
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Books of Interest to Textual Criticism
We all know one of the best things about the annual SBL conference is the bookstalls. You get a chance to samples the latest and greatest offerings from the major publishers. Even though I try to keep...
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TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 23 (2018)
The current volume 23 (2018) of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism is now complete with six fine articles and nine reviews, linked below. The journal is flourishing, and some good things will...
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