Best board imaginable!?
Ravi fell, but he had help.“It is with deep gratitude to God, joined by the best board anyone can imagine and affirmed by the rest of our senior leadership, that these two appointments have been...
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New Articles and Reviews in TC 25 (2020)
I am delighted to announce that the delayed second installment ofTC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 25 (2020) has just been published which completes vol. 25, packed with 163 pages of textual...
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Hernandez on Chapa’s New Introduction to TC
Over on the FB NTTC group, Juan Hernandez shares his thoughts on the new introduction from Juan Chapa which I have copied here with permission.Fresh off the press! Juan Chapa’s new book on textual...
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Luther’s Marginalia on Erasmus’s NT Annotationes
For those interested in such things, the University of Groningen has a very nice digital version of Martin Luther’s personal copy of Erasmus’s Annotationes. Elsewhere, Luther says, “At first it was a...
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When Art (Forgery) Imitates Textual Criticism
Over the weekend I watched a documentary called Made You Look: A True Story of Fake Art. It’s about the case of $80m in fake art that was sold by the famed Knoedler Art Gallery in NYC. Knoedler was the...
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Festschrift for Chuck Hill Published
Congratulations to Chuck Hill on the publication his Festschrift! The book is Studies on the Intersection of Text, Paratext, and Reception edited by Gregory R. Lanier and J. Nicholas Reid (both...
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Twelfth Birmingham Colloquium Videos
For those not aware, the presentations for this year’s Birmingham Colloquium on NT Textual Criticism have been online and are being put on YouTube here.
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A Myth/Mistake about the ESV
The ESV was not translated from the NA28, and the reading at Jude 5 is not an example of the ESV adopting the reading of the NA28.(That’s the correct version, not the myth—just to be clear.)I’ve seen...
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Cardinal Bellarmine, Trent’s Major Apologist, on Important Variants
I’ve been doing some reading on the Council of Trent and its aftermath the last few weeks and would like to share some interesting finds. First, some context. Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621) was an...
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New Nahal Hever LXX Fragments of the Minor Prophets
The major media outlets are abuzz today with the news that Israel has announced additional fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Specifically, these are new fragments of the Nahal Hever Minor Prophets...
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New Book: Reception of the Bible in Byzantium
This new book Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium: Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers is available free on open access (HT: Dan Batovici on Twitter). It has over twenty essays under the broad...
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Online Groningen Symposium on Palaeography and Hebrew/Aramaic Scribal Culture
Thanks to Drew Longacre for alerting me to the the 2021 International Online Groningen Symposium.DetailsWhen: 6–8 April 2021 13:00–20:00 Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)Hosts: Qumran Institute and...
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Manuscripts in D.C. and Dinner in Dollyworld
A few weeks ago, Elijah and I were hosted by the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. to talk about Myths and Mistakes. Elijah and I are alumni of the original Green Scholars Initiative, a formative...
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GA 1429, Looted in 1917, Is Returning Home
I didn’t want this to get lost in my last post about the MOTB, but, while we were there, Jeff Kloha told us about GA 1429 and the Museum’s recent work identifying it as part of a cache of manuscripts...
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The Cambridge Greek Lexicon (1) - Envy
EDIT: I got the name wrong! I called it initially the Cambridge Classical Lexicon, it is the Cambridge Greek Lexicon.Many of us will have pricked up our ears when the news broke this month that the...
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The Cambridge Greek Lexicon 2 - First Impressions
Going full reader-response on the new Cambridge Classical Lexicon, let me share my first impressions when opening my new purchase. Doing what anyone would do who knows people who have been involved in...
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Tyndale’s Use of ‘Jehovah’
William Tyndale (1491–1536) is known as the father of the English Bible because of the influence of his translation work. He is well known for giving to English Bible readers terms we now take for...
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The Cambridge Greek Lexicon 3 – Scope and Use
After the previousblog post it became clear that I needed to read the introductory material to get into the detail of this new lexicon. Apart from the lists of ‘Authors and Editions’ and...
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This is the fourth and final post on my week with the Cambridge Greek Lexicon (first, second, third).So do we (we, as in students of the Greek New Testament – and LXX [with different frustrations])...
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Review of Falcetta’s Bio of J. Rendel Harris
The new issue of BBRhas my review of Alessandro Falcetta’s The Daily Discoveries of a Bible Scholar and Manuscript Hunter: A Biography of James Rendel Harris. It’s an account thick with detail of a...
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