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036: A nice looking Oxford late majuscule
The other day in class we were reading Mark 14 and I noticed the variant at Mark 14.61 for the omission of ὁ χριστὸς (in Gamma and k). Gamma (036) is not one of those manuscripts that I am very...
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In lieu of our beloved blog dinner
I was just reminded that today is the day we should be celebrating the highlight of our year here at the ETC blog: the annual dinner. Alas, that will not be happening. We do hope all our readers are...
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Caring about the ‘infinitesimal points’
One of the marks of a good editor of the Greek New Testament is a near-obsessive attention to detail. There are so many decisions to be made about the little things like punctuation, paragraphing,...
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The CBGM of Acts for Download
Greg Paulson of the INTF in Münster has notified me that the CBGM for Acts can now be downloaded here. Greg has also made a tutorial how to install it and a brief introduction to how the CBGM works...
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More videos: Anderson on Family 1, Hixson on the Tyndale Textual Commentary
Two more videos from my ThM class on textual criticism are now live. In the first, Dr. Amy Anderson gives an overview and update of her work on the textual history of Family 1 in the Gospels. She also...
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Final Video: Shah on the Goalpost of New Testament Textual Criticism
The last video from my TC class is now up at YouTube. In it, Dr. Abidan Paul Shah introduces his new book Changing the Goalpost of New Testament Textual Criticism(2020). Despite the trend among some...
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Two Funded PhDs in NTTC with Garrick Allen
This looks like a great opportunity for someone qualified. Titles are ripe for study. See Tommy’s work on this in the Pastorals. I expect the Gospels will yield the most interesting results with...
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Manuscript Hunters – New Website
Right now I am participating in the launch (via Zoom) of a new website, Manuscript Hunters– the result of a project at the University of Munich with wonderful resources on "manuscript hunters" like...
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4QPsx: A Poorly Copied Manuscript
Several details about the Dead Sea Scrolls are common knowledge. One of these details is that these manuscripts preserve a certain level of textual plurality previously unknown among Hebrew OT...
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The Goal of NTTC according to Eldon Epp
The second volume of Eldon J. Epp's collected essays and articles, Perspectives on New Testament Textual Criticism (covering 2006-2017) has just been published by Brill. Congratulations to the author...
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E. C. Colwell and Kenneth Clark Lecture Audio
Juan Hernandez has recently made a great find in the course of some internet sleuthing. But I’ll let Juan tell you about it:In addition to discovering audio of E. C. Colwell’s lecture on poetry, I also...
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A claim that Jesus was a woman(!) and other things I’ve read about recently
Now that I’ve got your attention with my shamelessly clickbaity title, I mention below some observations from my recent reading. But the titular claim is not the only thing I could have used as...
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2021 Logos: Texts and Manuscripts
Mike Holmes has reminded me that the deadline for the Logos Summer workshop is fast approaching. I participated in earlier iterations of the Logos workshop and it was a great experience. Some of the...
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Center for New Testament Restoration Update
The following update came to my inbox and I thought our readers might like to know about it too. It’s from Alan Bunning, director of the Center for New Testament Restoration. The biggest news is that I...
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New CSNTM Manuscript Viewer
CSNTM has launched a revamped manuscript viewer on their website and it’s quite nice. The main image is much bigger and—my favorite feature—you can make it even bigger by toggling the various panes for...
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Darrell Post on Family 1 in John: Five New Core Members
In May last year we published a guest post by Darrell Post on the newly registered minuscule 2957. Darrell is a graduate of Virginia Beach Theological Seminary, Here below we publish another guest post...
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A Master Thesis on the Ending(s) of Mark by Bonar Lumban Raja
Here follows a very brief summary (without notes and bibliography) in English of Bonar Lumban Raja’s master thesis with the original title “Markan Ending: Penerapan Teori dan Metode Kritik Teks...
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New Spanish Intro to NTTC by Juan Chapa
I have just learnt that my friend and colleague Juan Chapa Prado, professor of New Testament at the Facultad de Teología (Universidad de Navarra) and one of the editors of The Oxyrrhynchus Papyri has...
View ArticleGrinfield Lectures on the Septuagint
The famous and learned James K. Aitken, Reader in Hebrew and Early Jewish Studies in the University of Cambridge, is presenting this year’s Grinfield Lectures on the Septuagint and the History of the...
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Predicting Scribal Glosses in Acts 17.26
I recently bought a new book on the Bible in the American Civil War. Among other things, the author does some great work detailing the most quoted Bible verses in sermons, newspapers, pamphlets, books,...
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