NEWS: Andrew Stimer to Return Five Papyri to the EES
The Egypt Exploration Society today announced two updates to the statement made on 14 October, as cited below, concerning the papyrus manuscripts which have been removed for the collection:Missing...
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Titles of the New Testament Postdoc in Dublin
DublinGarrick Allen of Dublin City University has just received funding for a 3-year postdoc to work on a project on manuscript titles. Titles are a very interesting but often neglected part of...
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5 Surprising Details about the Initial Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Several details about the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls are common knowledge. Many in the public, for example, are aware that approximately seventy years ago Bedouin accidentally discovered...
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New Book on the Doctrine of Preservation by Richard Brash
Outside of certain TR or KJV-only circles, the doctrine of preservation doesn’t seem to get a lot of attention from Protestants anymore. Bill Combs and Dan Wallace have written on it, but those are the...
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Congrats to Klaus Wachtel
Congratulations to Klaus Wachtel on his retirement!Source of un-doctored image: Hugh Houghton's TwitterYesterday, the INTF posted the following:Klaus has been a constant presence in textual criticism...
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Codex Zacynthius Study Day
Yesterday ITSEE organised a Study Day at Oriel College in Oxford to report on their research project on Codex Zacynthius (Cambridge, UL, MS Additional 10062) (for a previous contribution from this blog...
View ArticleDead Sea Scroll Detectives Airs Tonight (U.S.)
With apologies to Pete Head for the double post today, I thought U.S. readers may like to know about the following episode of NOVA airing tonight on PBS.Since the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in...
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Myths and Mistakes Now Available
A new book on textual criticism is now available! The New Testament is important, and defending it is important, but what we’ve noticed is that occasionally well-meaning defenders rely on other...
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ETC blog lunch at ETS and a list of ETS TC sessions
For a few years, we've been having an informal lunch at ETS to get together and talk about manuscripts with a group of people who might not be staying for SBL. The ETS lunch is much less formal than...
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New Issue of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism
The new volume 24 (2019) of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism has just been published. It is one of our most packed volumes ever with seven great articles, a review article and several...
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A Previously Unidentified Folio of 093?
Earlier this week, I was working on Acts in the forthcoming textual commentary for the Tyndale House Greek New Testament, and I believe there is another page of 093 that the INTF does not currently...
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Another 101 Papyri Missing from the EES
EES has announced that 120 pieces of papyri are missing from a limited number of folders(!) We know that hitherto 13 pieces have been located in the Museum of the Bible in Washington, another 6 in the...
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‘First-Century Mark’ SBL Panel
Panelists (photo credit)I’m at home with a newborn so I’m not attending SBL this year. But the big news was the all-star panel on “First-Century Mark.” Our own Elijah Hixson and Mike Holmes were on it...
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RIP Larry W. Hurtado (1943–2019)
The sad news has reached me that my dear friend and colleague, Larry W. Hurtado, has deceased. A very fine person and a giant scholar in New Testament studies including textual criticism has left us. I...
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RIP Lars Hartman (1930-2019)
Today I received the sad news that professor emeritus Lars Hartman (1930–2019) passed away yesterday at the age of 89. Hartman will be remembered as one of Sweden's finest exegetes. His many scholarly...
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Scribal Harmonisation as clue to Religious Identity?
Back in 2008 I noted the following:"elsewhere in this conference we have debated the question as to whether the scribes of early Christian manuscripts were Christians or not. The singular readings and...
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NYT article on Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Project
"MUNICH — When German researchers began working on a new Latin dictionary in the 1890s, they thought they might finish in 15 or 20 years. In the 125 years since, the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (T.L.L.)...
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LARRY W. HURTADO (29 December 1943 – 25 November 2019): A Guest Post by Eldon...
The following guest post is written by Larry Hurtado's Doktorvater, Eldon Jay Epp. We invite readers to share their favourite memories of Larry in the comments._____To hear that Larry W. Hurtado is no...
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A positive use of patristic evidence
Elsewhere, I’ve written about some limits of patristic evidence, but in this post, I want to give a positive example of how it can be used.At James 5:4, the vast majority of manuscripts have...
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Review Article of A Critical Examination of the CBGM
The latest issue of TC is chock-full of good-looking articles—none of which I’ve been able to read yet. This issue also has a lengthy review article from Andrew Smith dealing with my published...
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