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GA2965 and the Nicetas Manuscript Cluster: Guest Post by Post II
The following is a guest post by Darrell Post, graduate of Virginia Beach Theological Seminar (for an earlier guest post by Darrell on minuscule 2957 and its allies, see here– this post also includes...
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Reviews of Sabar’s New Book on the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife
Ariel Sabar’s new book on the saga of the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife releases tomorrow and already there have been a slate of glowing book reviews. My copy is on pre-order so I have not read it. But all...
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Gorgias Open Repository, Including Codex Zacynthius
Gorgias Press has just posted about their Open Repository. It looks to be a collection of all their open access books. There are a number of books of interest to text critics, a few of which have been...
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Shao on the Codicology of GA 2860
Last week in my textual criticism course we had a nice lecture from Jessica Shao on GA 2860. It’s a manuscript she worked on through the Green Scholars Initiative with Amy Anderson and her students at...
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New Open Access Handbook of Stemmatology
De Gruyter has just published a major new handbook on stemmatology, i.e., the study of textual relations. The full title is Handbook of Stemmatology: History, Methodology, Digital Approaches. I sampled...
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Some notes from fun reading: Erasmus, Original Text, Shorter Reading,...
I’ve been trying to read a few works that have been around for a few years that, for some reason, I haven’t read until now. What follows are some thoughts that are probably old hat to everyone else....
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A Brief Guide to Good Typography
Good communication is clear. It’s more than that, but never less. To be clear, the language we use matters. All of us know that. But, if typography is what language looks like (according to Ellen...
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Brief Update on the UBS6 from Florian Voss
Over on Twitter, Florian Voss gives a short update on updates being made for the UBS6.Although more focused, #UBS6 will also offer new app. units: More text differences to the Textus Receptus will be...
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Sung: How Kurt Aland Got Two Votes on the UBS Committee
The following is an email sent to me by Felix Sung and shared here with his permission. I have confirmed the gist of this second-hand account with another student of Dr. Bob Lyon. I would be happy to...
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More Guest Lectures on TC
We’ve uploaded two more videos to our TCI YouTube channel from my ThM TC course. You can find all the guest lecture videos here (not all are recorded).The first new video is from Joey McCollum on...
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TC Journal vol. 25 (2020) is up
The first installment of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism vol. 25 (2020) is complete with two articles and eight reviews. More articles will be uploaded in a second installment, hopefully...
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Book Notice: Changing the Goalpost of New Testament Textual Criticism
Congratulations to Dr. Abidan Paul Shah who has just published his dissertation written under the direction of Maurice Robinson. I first met Abidan several years ago at ETS and have had the benefit to...
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Why the Textus Receptus Cannot Be Accepted (Jan Krans)
Here follows a guest post from a colleague and reader of the blog, Jan Krans of the Protestantse Theologische Universiteit (PThU) in Amsterdam, author of Beyond What is Written: Erasmus and Beza as...
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Eberhard Nestle on His Revision of Scrivener’s GNT
For some time now, my main church Bible has been a nice hardcover of Scrivener’s 1906 Greek New Testament. It combines several features I like: it’s hardy (mine having been rebound); the text is clear...
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Come Study OT Textual Criticism in the Desert
ETC readers may know that Dr. Meade and I direct the recently-founded Text & Canon Institute at Phoenix Seminary. Our mission is to produce academic research and church resources that illuminate...
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How Many Manuscripts: Election Edition
How many manuscripts of the Greek New Testament exist today?Jacob Peterson’s chapter, “Math Myths: How Many Manuscripts We Have and Why More Isn’t Always Better” in Myths and Mistakes in New Testament...
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More on the Legacy Standard Bible
My thanks to William Varner for alerting me to the new website for the Legacy Standard Bible (descendant of the NASB). You can sign up for a sample of Mark and watch a 37-minute video.
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Two New Books on the Eusebian Canons
I recently published a very brief review of Matthew Crawfor’s book, The Eusebian Canon Tables: Ordering Textual Knowledge in Late Antiquity (OUP, 2019). Here is the Publisher’s Description: One of the...
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Interview with Elliott after 43 Years with the IGNTP
A few days ago, in conjunction with the recent meeting of the IGNTP Committtee, Professor J. Keith Elliott stepped down from active service after being on the committtee for 43 years (as editor,...
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Congratulations to Peter Head, CBE
I would like to congratulate our longtime blog editor, Dr. Peter Head, on his recent appointment to the order of Commander of the British Empire (CBE). This is also a good time to recognize his...
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