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The Source of Scott Carroll’s Mummy Masks?
Image sourceBrent Nongbri has been writing some very good posts lately on his blog about Scott Carroll and the papyri he has been showing at various events. But today, Brent has followed that with an...
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Jewish and Christian Books in the First Millennium in Indiana
David Lincicum, Hildegund Müller, and Jeremiah Coogan are running a working group at Notre Dame on Jewish and Christian Books. Jeremiah tells me the group is open to all comers and that if you RSVP...
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Free Brill Book: The Principal Pauline Epistles: A Collation of Old Latin...
A new publication in the esteemed series New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents (Brill) has been published: The Principal Pauline Epistles: A Collation of Old Latin Evidence, edited by H.A.G....
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Five millionth visitor
Congratulations to us for our five millionth* visitor.Celebrations in various parts of the world are happening as I type.* Of course maybe we’ve had more, or fewer, visitors. I personally have little...
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Is Codex Sinaiticus a Fake? New Evidence
Just to be clear, no. It's not a 19th-century fake.With that out of the way, I decided to take another look at a couple of things, and I noticed what some might consider to be new evidence in the...
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Happy International Septuagint Day!
Happy International Septuagint Day everyone! In 2006, the IOSCS declared February 8 to be International Septuagint Day, a day to celebrate the Septuagint and encourage its study, based on the following...
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PJW Video: Can We Know the Exact Words of God?
Gordon-Conwell seminary now has the audio video online from Pete Williams’s recent Cooley lectures (noted here). Here are the links:Lecture 1 - Can We Know the Exact Words of Scripture?Lecture 2 - Can...
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Minuscule 372
GA 372 is a 16th century parchment manuscript in the Vatican, which looks like a printed book. Apparently it is handwritten, but if that is the case, it is hard not to imagine that it must have been...
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New Critical Edition of the Harklean Syriac of Revelation
Because it appears in a volume of essays, it might have gone unnoticed that Martin Heide has published his critical edition of Revelation in the Harklean Syriac. I haven’t had time to work through it,...
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On Heb 11.11 and Not Making a ‘Fetish’ of Longer/Shorter Readings
While doing some work in Hebrews this week I learned two new things: (1) Heb 11.11 has a number of knotty problems, several of them textual and (2) Herman Hoskier has a textual commentary of sorts on...
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Elliott’s Doctoral Thesis on the Text of the Pastoral Epistles
At some point in college, I remember looking through J. K. Elliott’s The Greek text of the epistles to Timothy and Titus, a detailed textual commentary on those books from a thoroughgoing eclectic...
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Richard Baxter on the Autographs and Textual Criticism
Richard Baxter (1615–1691) is one of the most famous of the English Puritans. He was a “church leader, poet, hymnodist, theologian, and controversialist” per Wikipedia (yes, that Wikipedia). Continuing...
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New Book: How Old Is the Hebrew Bible?
In How Old Is the Hebrew Bible? A Linguistic, Textual, and Historical Study (Yale, 2018), Ronald Hendel and Jan Joosten provide an accessible treatment of some of the complex issues regarding inquiry...
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New Book on Textual Criticism and Apologetics
We have had discussions on this blog before about mistakes well-intentioned Christians often make when defending the Bible. There was a lively discussion about three years ago when The Gospel Coalition...
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Deuteronomy 33:2 in Textual and Linguistic Perspectives
In my last post, I introduced the book How Old Is the Hebrew Bible? Essentially, the book argues that diachronic/historical linguistics explains the changes we see in the language of the Hebrew Bible...
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Another Shorter Reading Preserved in the Byzantine Text
Here’s another interesting shorter reading preserved for us in the Byzantine text, this one from 1 Cor 9.20:τοῖς ὑπὸ νόμον ὡς ὑπὸ νόμον, μὴ ὢν αὐτὸς ὑπὸ νόμον, ἵνα τοὺς ὑπὸ νόμον κερδήσωTo those under...
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New Biblical Papyri Coming from Oxyrhynchus
For those who don’t follow the blog on Twitter or Facebook, here’s some very big news coming from the Egypt Exploration Society:In response to recent queries about results of the review initiated in...
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Fantastic Film: “Greek Papyri – The Rediscovery of the Ancient World”
In a comment to the previous post on Oxyrhynchus, an anonymous person drew the attention to a fascinating film that has just been uploaded to YouTube, “Greek Papyri—The Rediscovery of the Ancient...
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A Non-Evangelical Reads Misquoting Jesus
Bart Ehrman has from time to time expressed surprise that Christians and particularly Evangelicals reacted so negatively to his book Misquoting Jesus. In his follow-up book Jesus, Interruptedhe writes,...
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Example Passages from the NASB Update
Over at the Opened Heart blog, Rob Oberto has helpfully culled a list of verses that the Lockman Foundation has been sharing on their Facebook page of the forthcoming update to the NASB translation...
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