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‘Written on your hearts’ 2 Cor 3.2
There is a variant reading in 2 Cor 3.2 where the main editions generally follow the weight of the manuscript evidence in reading ἡμῶν in the phrase ἐγγεγραμμένη ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν ‘inscribed in our...
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40% off Myths and Mistakes
Our Myths and Mistakes giveaway has now ended. Congrats to our winners! As a consolation prize for those who didn’t win, IVP has offered a special discount code for 40% off and free shipping (US only I...
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Links around the Web
Meade and I have been up to our necks in final prep for the Sacred Words conference this weekend which has meant I haven’t had time for blogging. Instead, here are some TC-related links and news from...
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Lying Pen of Scribes Postdoc
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Digital Humanities and the Dead Sea Scrolls"A fixed-term 100 % position is available at the University of Agder, Faculty of Humanities and Education, as a Post-Doctoral...
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Mount Athos Repository On-line
The wonderful news has just reached me that over 3,000 digitised manuscripts at Mount Athos have been made available online (at this point only 177 are on parchment) in the Mount Athos Repository.This...
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Rob Turnbull on Arabic Manuscripts and New Testament Textual Criticism
Rob talking about something importantOver at Biblia Arabica, Rob Turnbull has written a post about Arabic manuscripts, titled "Do Arabic Gospel manuscripts matter for Textual Criticism?" The article is...
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On Using Majuscule Numbers instead of Letters
Along with my principled resistance to using Gothic letters in textual criticism, I have for a while also been personally opposed to using letters for the majuscules. Instead, I have tried to restrict...
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Interview at Ian Paul’s Blog
Over at his award winning blog (it’s true), Ian Paul has interviewed me about Myths & Mistakes, why skepticism sells, and whether textual criticism is the geekiest of the NT subdisciplines. Thanks...
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Festschrift for Maurice A. Robinson On-line
In 2014, Mark Billington and Peter Streitenberger edited a volume of essays, Digging for the Truth: Collected Essays Regarding the Byzantine Text of the Greek New Testament, to honor Maurice A....
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A Tendency with Word Order Variants
One of the cutest illustrations of transmission tendencies as to word order is found with the conjunction γαρ. Have a look at the following clauses:Luke 6:23 (and 6:26, almost identically) κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ...
View ArticleSacred Words Videos Online
The videos from our recent Sacred Words conference are now online at the TCI YouTube channel. We filmed all the speakers in the main auditorium. This included Peter Gentry on the text of the OT, ETC’s...
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“Text-Critical Thursdays” On-line (IGNTP)
Today Hugh Houghton on behalf of the IGNTP Committee announces Text-Critical Thursdays here (pasted below). This is an online seminar series that will take place in May and June on the Zoom platform...
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Text & Canon Institute’s Fellowship Application Open
Co-blogger, Peter Gurry, and I want to invite serious MDiv grads who intend to pursue a PhD in the areas of Textual Criticism (Old or New) or Canon Studies to consider applying to Phoenix Seminary’s...
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Another Revision of the NASB
Over the last few years, I noted that the NASB, last updated in 1995, is currently undergoing a major revision (see here and here). Today, a video came out from Pastor John MacArthur that faculty at...
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Hernández: 2020 Alexander Thompson Memorial Lecture
Before the coronavirus madness, Juan Hernández Jr. delivered this year’s Rev. Alexander Thompson Memorial Lecture at Princeton Theological Seminary. The lecture is titled “Recovering Revelation’s...
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“He will see light” in Isaiah 53:11
Over on Southern Equip today, I published a piece on Easter and textual criticism by commenting on a few of the crucial textual variants within Isaiah 53. I hope the post introduces more folks to some...
View ArticleFrom the Guardian: ‘Oxford professor arrested on suspicion of ancient papyrus...
The Guardian just ran a story today about the ongoing circumstances with regard to Oxyrhynchus papyri that ended up missing and/or in private collections, “Oxford professor arrested on suspicion of...
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The Use of Scripture’s Self-Authentication to Solve Variants
On this 40th (?) day of quarantine, I find myself wondering if there are writers in the Reformed tradition who use the doctrine of Scripture’s self-authentication to decide between textual variants....
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The Goal(s) of New Testament Textual Criticism
Recently, my co-blogger Peter Gurry participated in a conversation on the topic of how Christians should approach textual criticism and textual variation in manuscripts in a podcast hosted by Josh...
View ArticleWycliffe Hall New Testament Research Group
Wycliffe Hall New Testament Research GroupOur NT Research Group has gone online and we are hosting the following seminars this term. The first two are based on recently completed PhD theses; the last...
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