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Text critics who are cat people
I figure we could all use a bit of lighthearted fun during these difficult times, so I give you: textual scholars and manuscript specialists with cats!Image credit: co-blogger Amy Anderson (used with...
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Some Light COVID-19 Reading from Wuppertal
Few texts are more pertinent during a time when paracetamol, hand sanitisers, toilet paper, pasta, and yeast are hopelessly sold out (perhaps never to be seen again on this side of eternity) than the...
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News from Zondervan on the NASB 2020
I recently noted a second revision of the NASB being done by John MacArthur. I have discussed the first revision before and given some samples of it. Today I discovered that Zondervan has a website...
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James Snapp discovers two more folios of 064!
St. Catherine's Monastery, where these new folios of 064 are.In case you missed it a few days ago, James Snapp has discovered two previously unidentified folios of 064 at the Sinai Palimpsests Project...
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Sabar on Dirk Obbink
Ariel Sabar has produced an engaging and informative overview of the tragic story of Dirk Obbink and the stolen Egyptian Exploration Society papyri. Naturally, we must all leave Obbink’s guilt to...
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New Minuscule 2957 and Its Allies – Guest Post by Post
I want to introduce Darrell Post, graduate of Virginia Beach Theological Seminary, whom I invited to do this guestpost on the newly registered minuscule 2957 (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book &...
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Optimal Substemmata Now Available for Acts
Just today I noticed that the CBGM for Acts has added substemmata to its repertoire. This is really exciting. When I produced the portion of the global stemma for the Catholic Letters in my thesis,...
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Ward: A Rising Tide Sinks All Boats: The Legacy Standard Bible and Stewarding...
The following guest post is from Mark Ward (PhD, Bob Jones University), who serves the church as an academic editor at Lexham Press (though his opinions in this piece are solely his own). His most...
View ArticleBibliographie Papyrologique online
The good folk at the Bibliographie Papyrologique - an historic resource for bibliographical resources in papyrology (as one might expect from the name!) - have recently announced an up-date. The free...
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Summer sale on To Cast the First Stone
Summer sale until 28 June on my and Jennifer Knust's book To Cast the First Stone: The Transmission of a Gospel Story– 50% discount and free shipping worldwide (!) with code PUP50 at checkout....
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Origen and the Hexapla: the Text & Canon Institute Interviews Dr. Peter Gentry
Several months ago, I and Peter Gurry had the chance to sit down and talk with Peter Gentry about Origen as philologist, his Hexapla, and the Text & Canon Institute’s upcoming colloquium (now...
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New Testament Textual Commentaries
I’ve been casually compiling a list of New Testament textual commentaries for several months. There is a lot more than just Metzger. I thought it might be helpful to post them here. This wasn’t an...
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The Text of the Pauline Corpus Articles
Having Paul deciding whether to write ἔχομεν or ἔχωμεν just finished a dictionary article on the text of Paul, I thought I should note two more-in-depth articles on the same topic from my co-bloggers....
View ArticleETC Blog Dinner at SBL
Now that cancel-culture has hit SBL and it has cancelled itself; we are going to have to think creatively about our annual blog dinner.
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Notes from my afternoon
Sometimes there are those days that you find little imprecisions in someone else’s work (and these make me feel slightly better about my own failings). So this afternoon I found the following two.I got...
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Is There a Unity amid this Diversity?
Currently, there is debate about the state of the Old Testament text before the second century AD. While many argue that the OT text existed in a state of fluidity – that is, the OT text had not yet...
View ArticleSome forthcoming works
I list below some new/forthcoming books on/possibly relevant to NT textual criticism I noticed recently. The summaries are copied from the linked pages. Not listed here is the ECM of Mark, which is...
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New Book: Stunt on Tregelles
Timothy C.F. Stunt, The Life and Times of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles: A Forgotten Scholar (Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World; Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). ISBN: 978-3-030-32265-6With this...
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Video from SIL Textual Criticism and Translation Webinar
Meade and I recently participated in a live webinar with Drew Maust of SIL on the importance and role of textual criticism for Bible translation. It was a good time with great questions from Drew and...
View Article4QGenk: A Normalized Manuscript
4QGenk (4Q10) is a poorly preserved manuscript that contains 70 partial words. Among these partial words, there exist three variants (I am not counting differences of plene/defective spelling here)....
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