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C.H. Spurgeon on the Preservation of Scripture
[Note: I originally wrote this post over a year ago during UK lockdown but didn't post it at the time.]It’s no secret that for many years now, I’ve had an unhealthy obsession a healthy respect for the...
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Free Book (Open Access): Georgi Parpulov’s new catalogue of catena manuscripts
This is one I’ve been looking forward to for a while.Georgi R. Parpulov’s new book, Catena Manuscripts of the Greek New Testament: A Catalogue Texts and Studies, Third Series (Piscataway, NJ; Gorgias,...
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Blog Maintenance: New Subscription Manager
Hi all. For a while the blog has used Feedburner.com to keep track of subscriber stats and to handle email subscriptions. Unfortunately, Feedburner has basically been dead in the water for some time....
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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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Hobby Lobby Sues Obbink for $7m
Courthouse News Service reports today that Hobby Lobby is suing Dirk Obbink for $7 million for fraud and breach of contract. The complaint details seven private sale agreements between February 2010...
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ECM Mark and More on the Way
Here’s some happy news out of Muenster: “The ECM of Mark is currently being printed and will be available soon.” I think there is an SBL session on the Mark data. (That reminds me I need to register...
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Roman Writing Equipment
A. Willi, Manual of Everyday Roman Writing. Volume 2. Writing Equipment Here is a very useful little e-book with some nice illustrations.
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I recently found out that Dale Heath's 1965 Michigan State University Ph.D. dissertation ("A transcription and description of Manuscript Vatican Greek 2061 [Gregory 048].") is free online, here.048 is...
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Textual Division Markers in Codex Vaticanus
I enjoyed teaching some seminars for the Logos online program this year. In our seminars we looked at Psalm 8 and Hebrews 2 in a variety of manuscripts. We had a very close look at this passage (the...
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Journal Issue on Biblical Authority and Textual Criticism
The latest issue of the Southern Baptist Journal of Theology is devoted to textual criticism and bibliology. The main essays are published versions of the Text & Canon Institute’s inaugural...
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Melchior Sessa's 1538 Greek New Testament online
It was once extremely rare; in 1941, Hatch knew of only 7 copies in the world.I found one online yesterday at Google Books. Maybe this is old news to you, but it's new to me, and I was excited to find...
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Romans 8.34 A question of accentuation?
In the NA28 text Romans 8.34 begins with τίς ὁ κατακρινῶν; This is a little bit exciting not only from an exegetical viewpoint; but also because future participles don't come along every day (there...
View ArticleA Modern-Day Scribe
A beautiful story in Christianity Today here: "Nine Years, 782,000 Words Later, South Carolina Woman Completes Handwritten Bible."
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The Text of Codex Bezae in Finnish
Pasi Hyytiäinen has let me know that he has finished a translation of the text of Bezae in Acts into Finnish. You can find it here. I can’t say anything about the translation, of course, but I trust...
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Zwingli’s Manuscript of Paul’s Epistles
I haven’t had time to go down this rabbit hole myself, but linked here is apparently a hand-written copy of Paul’s epistles made by the famous Swiss reformer, Ulrich Zwingli. The date is 1517. Pretty...
View ArticleThe end of the 50km walk in the Olympics
It is a sad day for me, given my own long-term involvement in the sport of walking, to have to report that there won't be any more 50km walks in the Olympics. Obviously we leave it with great memories,...
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Holmes: New Article on the Homeric Poems
The following is a note from Mike Holmes that I’m happy to share here.Gunther Zuntz observed that the New Testament and Homer are the two “paramount examples of a ‘contaminated tradition’” (Text of the...
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What Happened to the Van Kampen Collection?
Christianity Today’s Daniel Silliman reports on the closure of the Holy Land Experience in Orlando. I’ve never been, but their Scriptorium attraction used to house the Van Kampen collection which...
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ECM of Mark: Thirty-three Changes to the Initial Text
The Novum Testamentum Graecum. Editio Critica Maior (ECM) of the Gospel of Mark has just arrived in Sweden in a shoebox size 43. First of all I want to warmly congratulate the team of the INTF in...
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