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Holy Infographics
The Guardian (oddly enough) has an interesting collection of attempts to present aspects of the Bible in visual form (here). My favourite is the picture above of biblical cross-references. Here is the...
View ArticleManuscripts in the USA and Canada
The Bibliographical Society of America has released a helpful Directory of Institutions in the United States and Canada with Pre-1600 Manuscript Holdings (compiled by Melissa Conway and Lisa Fagin Davis).
View ArticleHow many books in the New Testament?
Not a trick question: 27. And there is more (that I learnt from Bart Ehrman): this is trinitarian, since the NT is about the Christian God, and therefore specifically about the Trinity. And what is...
View ArticleP32 as a Multi-text Codex
In the most recent New Testament Studies:Emily Gathergood, 'Papyrus 32 (Titus) as a Multi-text Codex: A New Reconstruction'NewTestament Studies 59 (2013), 588-606.Abstract: Following the recent...
View ArticleJac Perrin's Thesis on F13 in John Online
Jac Perrin has agreed to share his recently defended thesis "Family 13 in Saint John's Gospel," which we reported on here. The remark by Perrin that we discussed on this blog that "the PA of several...
View ArticleBeing Pedantic
If there is one occupational hazard that threatens a good number of the text-critical guild, it is that of being pedantic. Squabbling over commas, dots in the margin, spelling, and one another's work...
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Manichaean fragments from bindings
The University Library in Cambridge has acquired some interesting fragments of a Manichaean text written in Syriac (Camb., UL. MS. Or. 2552). More details are here:A lecture by Professor Nils Arne...
View ArticleNew Images Online from BL manuscripts
On the 3rd of September the British Library announced eleven new manuscripts had been digitised and the images placed on-line. These include six Greek Gospel manuscripts:Burney MS 19 (G-A 481; 10th...
View ArticleBest Commentaries for Textual Criticism
I thought it would be a good idea to draw up a list of the best commentaries for textual criticism. Which commentaries show real independent thought about the text of the text they are treating? (We...
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The Chester Beatty Papyri Photographed by CSNTM
Pressrelease from the Centre for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM):17 September 2013 The Chester Beatty papyri, published in the 1930s and 1950s, are some of the oldest and most important...
View ArticleLincoln College Summer School of Greek Palaeography
Highly Recommended (don't let the fact that it is in Oxford put you off):The fifth Lincoln College International Summer School in Greek Palaeography will be held on 28 July-2 August 2014. The school...
View ArticleRe-rolling a papyrus roll and Revelation 6:14
The inimitable T.C. Skeat wrote this in 1990:"In Scritti in Onore di Orsolina Montevecchi, Bologna 1978, pp. 373-376, I published a note entitled "Was re-rolling a papyrus roll an irksome and...
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Observing the Scribe at Work
Some time ago we posted the call for papers for a Conference on Scribal Practice in the Ancient and Antique Mediterranean World at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. The conference is this...
View ArticleForte Reviews NA28
A.J. Forte, 'Observations on the 28th Revised Edition of Nestle-Aland's Novum Testamentum Graece' Biblica94 (2013), 268-292.This is an interesting review or set of observations about the NA28, largely...
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Synopsis of the Pauline Letters
J.P. Ware, Synopsis of the Pauline Letters in Greek and English (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2010).This is not exactly a book review, just a blog post to say that I have found this book much more useful than...
View ArticleA Nice Video from Amsterdam
Nothing particularly sensational here (especially from a cinematographical perspective!), but fun to watch some friends here. A good brief intro and touches on some contemporary scholarly interests. I...
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NT Manuscripts in Paris: online/update
The Bibliotheque Nationale is doing a great job in putting images of manuscripts on-line. So I have up-dated this list (originally from July 1st 2013) to include all the NT manuscripts (of the 18 NT...
View ArticleMarginalia
Seems that there is a bit of interest in marginalia at the moment.Life on the Edge: Marginalia A nice post on the John Rylands Library blog by John Hodgson with helpful images illustrating various...
View ArticleTov on Electronic Tools
Emanuel Tov writes on Electronic Tools for the Study of the Hebrew Bible here.
View ArticleDon't Tell Your Greek Class
I learned something fascinating about the Greek of Revelation that I had not expected, and certainly was never told. What everyone knows is that certain prepositions (such as δια, εις, υπο) take...
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