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Myths and Mistakes on Sale
Elijah and I were pleased to hear last week that not only was Myths and Mistakes the publisher’s bestselling book at both conferences in San Diego this year, but the first print run has already sold...
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Pagan Readers of Christian Scripture
New Article: Ian N. Mills, ‘Pagan Readers of Christian Scripture: the Role of Books in Early Autobiographical Conversion Narratives’ Vigiliae Christianae 73 (2019), 481–506.Abstract: Most scholars...
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Bernard Ramm on Textual Criticism (1957)
For Christmas, Christianity Today, the flagship magazine of American evangelicals founded by Billy Graham, has opened its full archives. These go back to 1956 and make for educational reading on the...
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A New Grammar of Ancient Greek for NT Students
Over at the Zürich New Testament Blog, Christoph Heilig has a nice interview with Heinrich von Siebenthal. Sibenthal’s Greek grammar has just been translated into English and published by Peter Lang....
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Open Theology: Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies and Theology
The latest issue of Open Theology journal is entitled “Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies and Theology” and was edited by Claire Clivaz and Garrick Allen. You can find the articles listed below...
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Fact-checking Versional Support for the ECM and the textus receptus
It’s no secret that sometimes patristic citations and versions are used to make claims they don’t really support. I came across this issue the other day when I was looking at 2 Peter 3:10.Coptic and...
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Origen as Philologist: Inaugural Text & Canon Institute Colloquium
My colleague and coblogger, Peter Gurry, and I were busy in 2019 planning the first big events for Phoenix Seminary's Text & Canon Institute. Last year, we announced our first church conference,...
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Edmondson Thesis on CBGM Now Available Free Online
A recent email from Gerd Mink reminded me that Andrew Edmondson’s Birmingham doctoral thesis is now online here. Andrew and I exchanged some emails in the first year of my own PhD and I’ve been looking...
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The New Testament in Antiquity and Byzantium: Festschrift for Klaus Wachtel
Back in early November, Elijah noted Klaus Wachtel’s retirement from his many years of service at INTF. It seems, however, that we haven’t yet noted that Klaus was also honored with a Festschrift later...
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The Greek Manuscripts of the Comma Johanneum (1 John 5:7–8)
Warning: long post because there’s a lot of detail here.Although it is one of the easiest text-critical decisions, a lot of attention often goes to the Comma Johanneum (henceforth, CJ), the addition at...
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From Bedouin to Scholars: The Discovery and Preservation of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls largely belong to the realm of scholars and researchers. However, this was not always the case. When the scrolls were discovered, they belonged to the realm of Bedouin. The Bedouin...
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Longform Guardian Article on the Mark Fragment Saga
This morning, the Guardian published a long story titled “A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel.” Its about Dirk Obbink and the stolen Oxyrhynchus fragments. It’s quite good and...
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Erasmus, the KJV, and the Order of Matt 23.13–14
If you are dutifully reading your Robinson-Pierpont (RP) Byzantine Greek NT alongside your Nestle-Aland or THGNT (as you should be), you will notice that they diverge at Matt 23.13–14. The Byzantine...
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Funded Postdoc on Apocrypha at UOslo
Although Coptic flourished during the Roman period in Coptic monasteries and in the broader setting of the early Christian movement, the language did not function as a compositional medium until the...
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Editio Critica Maior at SBL: Call for Papers
The Call for Papers for SBL Annual Meeting in Boston (21–24 November) is now open until 11 March. This year we will focus on the ECM of the Gospel of Mark which will be published soon (hooray!). Novum...
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We have some interesting papers coming up this term if anyone is in the vicinity:Wycliffe Hall New Testament Research Group2020 Hilary Term ProgrammeMeeting at 9:00 – 10:00AM on Wednesdays in the...
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Collation of NA28 and THGNT
The introduction at the back of the THGNT teases us by noting a collation done with NA28, but gives little more detail. That’s why it’s very helpful that Hefin Jones has shared a computer collation of...
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Win Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism!
Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticismhas been out for about two months now and is already in a second printing. To celebrate, we’re giving away 3 copies here on the blog! You can enter...
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Logos Conference in Washington (June 2020)
Logos in Washington, DCApply to Logos 2020! Click here to access the application.Please note that the deadline to submit an application is 11:59 pm GMT (British time) on Sunday, 16 February 2020.What:...
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Joey McCollum: Introducing the open-cbgm library
The following is a guest post from Joey McCollum. Joey is a research associate at Virginia Tech, a co-editor of the Solid Rock Greek New Testament (with Stephen Brown), and one of the translators...
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