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Eldon Epp’s Library Goes to Baylor University
Thanks to Jim Leonard and Stephen Carlson for alerting us to the fact that Eldon J. Epp’s personal library has a new home at Baylor University. Notably, it includes his research library and papers....
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Another Second-Century Fragment of 1 Corinthians?
In the middle of my vacation, one of our followers, Darrell Post, informs me of two new papyri, which will soon be registered in the Kurzgefasste Liste (update: likely as two new parts of P129 and P131...
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‘The Ends of Manuscripts’ Workshop in Ole Rocky Top
News of a manuscript workshop in Tennessee next year. It looks like a good subject. And note that presenters will receive a $500 honorarium. I assume that can be spent on Chick-fil-A and sweet tea.15th...
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Dan Wallace shares a very nice video explaining CSNTM’s mission. As someone who has both worked with CSNTM and benefits significantly from their work, I would encourage you to support their work.More...
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A Preview of Peter Gentry’s Septuaginta Ecclesiastes
A critical edition with its critical text and apparatus tells a text’s narrative history. If that is true, the new Ecclesiastes of the Septuaginta series is no exception. In this post, I want to...
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Putting to Rest an Old Canard about Erasmus
Among text critics, it’s fairly well known that no Greek manuscript was ever produced to order for Erasmus that included the long form of 1 John 5.7. But given that the story is still found in the...
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I saw the following tweet this week and it provoked my thinking about how very old media forms can be affected by far newer ones. In this case, the quotation marks and the apostrophe in this stone...
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Montoro: The Instability of Chrysostom’s Romans Text
The following is a guest post from Peter Montoro who is currently a doctoral student at the University of Birmingham. It gives a sample of his important paper at the Birmingham Colloquium on the...
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More on Erasmus and Codex Montfortianus
Matthew in Montfortianus (per Wikipedia)Last week I posted about the myth that Codex Montfortianus (GA 61) was made-to-order in response to a challenge by Erasmus to include it if even a single Greek...
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Is Textual Criticism Theologically Safe?
Why do so many Evangelicals study textual criticism? (Besides because it’s the best.) Here’s one answer that I have come across several times now:“Lower” textual criticism, as it is called, is often...
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Complete Online Schedule for Oxford Patristics Studies Conference
Today, the Oxford Patristics Conference's global schedule was published online here. It is a massive schedule, but the online version is easily searchable by Title, Author, Presenter, etc.I'm looking...
View ArticleAsa or Asaph in Matthew 1: A Teaser for the THGNT Textual Commentary
Yesterday morning, I was reading a sermon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892) titled "Concealing the Words of God." No, the sermon is not about textual criticism, but Spurgeon made a remark that...
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The Textual Optimism of the UBS4
The grading system for variants in the UBS editions is probably its most distinctive feature. These ratings rank from A to D and indicate the relative level of certainty the editors felt in their...
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The Purpose of Catchwords
In Medieval manuscripts it’s not uncommon to find the first word of each page written at the bottom of the previous page. These repeated words are called “catchwords” and they continue well into the...
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Announcing the Sacred Words Conference
On February 21-22, 2020, plan to attend the Phoenix Seminary Text & Canon Institute's inaugural history of the Bible conference: Sacred Words (learn more and register at the link).About the...
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Is Martha an Interpolation into John’s Gospel?
One of the readers of our blog, and a very promising PhD student at Duke University, Elizabeth Schrader, is currently working on examining the textual transmission of John 11:1–12:2, specifically the...
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Is Martha an Interpolation into John’s Gospel? Part II
Here we continue with Elizabeth Schrader's guest post in three parts concerning the textual transmission of John 11:1–12:2, specifically the presence (or absence) of the two sisters, Martha and Mary in...
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Is Martha an Interpolation into John's Gospel? Part III
We have come to the third and concluding part of Elizabeth Schrader's guest post concerning the presence or absence of Martha and Mary in John 11:1–12:2. The previous two parts are here and here. I am...
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Silvia Castelli Passes Her Viva on Wettstein
A hearty congratulations to Silvia Castelli who has just defended her doctoral dissertation on the subject of J. J. Wettstein (see here). I have read a bit of it privately and what I read was excellent...
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Origen Did Think Paul Wrote Hebrews
Hebrews written by Paul in GA 104Last fall, when teaching Hebrews at the seminary, I did what one does when discussing authorship of Hebrews: I noted that tradition ascribes it to Paul, pointed out...
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