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Another Important, Shorter Reading in the Byzantine Text
Earlier this year, I wrote about two important, shorter readings in the Byzantine text in 1 John 2.23; 3.1. I suggested that they were important because they both look to be simple omissions by...
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Top Ten Posts of 2018
This year, the ETC blog has been humming, publishing more posts than in any single year since 2010. We even had legit posts on Old Testament textual criticism thanks to John! We want to say thanks to...
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Who Said It?
Time for another round of everyone’s favorite game, “Who Said It?” No using Google, although in this case it won’t help you anyway.Since the Textus Receptus was overcome by the scholarly textual...
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‘The God Who Speaks’ documentary
I’ve just been alerted to the release of a new Bible documentary for Christians called The God Who Speaks. The contributors are (with one exception?) American-based Evangelical scholars, apologists, or...
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Newberry Library webpage on the great polyglots
The Newberry Library in Chicago has a nice webpage introducing the great polyglot Bibles of the 16th–17th century. It gives helpful details for the Complutensian (1517), Antwerp (1571), and London...
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Anthony Ferguson on the ‘Non-Aligned’ Dead Sea Scrolls
Last month, I noted the completion of Anthony Ferguson’s dissertation, “A Comparison of the Non-Aligned Texts of Qumran to the Masoretic Text.” In this guest post, Anthony describes his thesis in more...
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Cats, Bibles and More at the British Library
Over the weekend, I made a trip to the British Library and got to see an amazing exhibit: Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War. This exhibition is open until 19 February 2019 and features some amazing...
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A Greek Witness to the Lord’s Prayer, Written in Latin Letters, without the...
Yesterday, I wrote that I would devote a full post to what was one of my favourite items in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition at the British Library.The catalogue entry gives it the title “The...
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Important Series for New Testament Textual Criticism
I’m slowly working on a syllabus for a new ThM-level course in NT textual criticism and that means putting together a student-friendly bibliography. I thought it might be helpful to students to have a...
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Logos in Oxford, 29 May–12 June 2019
Our friends at SCIO are planning another Logos conference in Oxford this summer:Logos in OxfordA summer workshop on biblical texts, vocation, and the Christian mindOffered by SCIO with funding provided...
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Anthony Ferguson on Texts Preserving Psalms from Qumran
Last week, guest blogger, Anthony Ferguson, described his recently defended and completed dissertation on the ‘Non-Aligned’ Texts of Qumran and reported on its major conclusions. I asked Anthony to...
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P. J. Williams to Give Cooley Lecture at Gordon-Conwell
At the end of this month, Peter Williams is set to give the Cooley Lecture at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Charlotte) on a topic that will be of interest to our readers. Here is the info from...
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Dr. Will Kynes to Lecture at Phoenix Seminary Next Month
I am excited to announce that Will Kynes will be giving a lecture in the Chapel at Phoenix Seminary on his latest OUP monograph: An Obituary for “Wisdom Literature”: The Birth, Death, and Intertextual...
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Leander Keck on Textual Criticism and Inerrancy
I once had the pleasure of meeting Leander Keck in Cambridge where he used to attend the NT seminars when he was in town. Since then I have tried, from time to time, to read some of his work.Here is a...
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Septuagint Summer Course at Trinity Western
Please see the flyer below announcing the Septuagint Summer School course, June 24–28, 2019, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm (Pacific Daylight Time), to be taught by Dr. John Screnock, Research Fellow in Hebrew...
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The All-or-Nothing Problem with Byzantine Priority
The most noteworthy feature of the Byzantine priority position to me is not that it seriously values the Byzantine text (I think that’s generally good); it’s that it always prefers a Byzantine text....
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Coherence at 1 John 4.19
To follow up from yesterday’s post, here is the textual flow diagram and local stemma for 1 John 4.19/5 in INTF’s CBGM. Reading a = omit; b = αυτον; c = τον θεον; d = τον κυριον. In this diagram, none...
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2019 Gorgias Book Grant
Win $500 of Gorgias Press titles through the 2019 Gorgias Book GrantThe Gorgias Book Grant is an important part of our efforts to support young scholars in the humanities. Every year, Gorgias chooses...
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New Text & Canon Institute at Phoenix Seminary
By now, some of our ETC readers may have heard about a new venture that John Meade and I are co-directing at Phoenix Seminary called the Text & Canon Institute.A number of confessional institutions...
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The ‘Anonymity’ of Hebrews in Minuscule 104
The NA27 has a helpful feature that was sadly removed from the NA28 and that is a selection of subscriptions to the NT books. These often contain information about authorship and even the location of...
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