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Documentary by Kipp Davis, “Josh McDowell: Manuscript Hunting and Mythmaking...
Tonight I watched Kipp Davis’ new documentary about one of the most influential apologists in the US: “Josh McDowell: Manuscript Hunting and Mythmaking for Jesus” live in a webinar organized by the...
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Calvin’s Conjectures
Warning: This is a long post in which I trace out my research method and show the steps I try to take to find answers.IntroductionJohn Calvin, probably.Several months ago, I was reading F.F. Bruce’s...
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Codex 28 at Mark 1:1
Here is an image of Codex 28 at Mark 1:1 that came to my attention tonight via the new ECM. It seems to be a witness both to the shorter reading and to the fact that nomina sacra are easily...
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Ozoliņš: Observations on ESV Old Testament Translation Notes
The following is a guest post from Kaspars Ozoliņš who has a PhD from UCLA in Indo-European linguistics and currently works as a Research Associate at Tyndale House in Cambridge.Translation notes are a...
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Museum of the Bible is advertising a curatorial position with specializations relevant to the early Renaissance. Applicants should be proficient in German and Latin. PhD preferred. Located in...
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GA 048 and the Text of Ephesians 5:22
Some years ago, I wrote a blog post on the text of Ephesians 5:22. There I suggested that the neglected longer reading (ὑποτασσέσθωσαν) seemed to me to be the more difficult reading while noting a...
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Richard Porson’s Famous Handwriting
Although he published little, the Cambridge classicist Richard Porson (1759–1808) is best known for his insight into Greek meter, accentuation, and orthography. He was apparently skeptical of Granville...
View ArticleMore NT Textual Criticism Guest Lecture Videos
I’m teaching NTTC again at the seminary and that means having guest lecturers visit to share their work. The first two videos are now up at the TCI YouTube channel. If you subscribe there, you’ll get...
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Hebrew Scribes at the End of the Line
Composing a text by hand demands an awareness of certain details that we can ignore when using a word processor. One of these details is if the next written word corresponds to the available space. At...
View ArticlePhDs and Post-Docs in Textual Criticism at Leuven
From an email: KU Leuven, Belgium, offers 2 full-time post-doctoral (2 years) and 3 PhD positions (4 years) for suitably qualified candidates to form part of the research team of the Research...
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The New CSB Note at 2 Peter 3.10
Last night in class, the students and I were talking about how changes in the NA28 might affect English translations. So I pulled up 2 Peter 3.10 in the CSB as an example. I wrote about this note...
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Codex Ravianus and 5 lost manuscripts, now found
Christian Ravis (Christianus Ravius)after Unknown artist,line engraving, 1645NPG D29240© National Portrait Gallery, CCIn addition to the manuscripts I described here, a lot of (especially older or...
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Rodenbiker on the Canon List in Claromontanus
Kelsie Rodenbiker has a helpful article clarifying some issues about the odd canon list in Codex Claromontanus (the so-called Catalogus Claromontanus). The pre-pub was uploaded back in March and is...
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ETC Blog Lunch at ETS
ETS and SBL are nearly upon us. Normally we have a dinner at SBL (I am not in charge of that, and I am waiting to hear more about if/when we can do that this year), and the past few times ETS has met,...
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ETC blog dinner at SBL?
So, here’s the deal on the ETC blog dinner. I’ve been up to my ears in work and have not been able to plan anything for the blog dinner. My cobloggers who would otherwise be able to do it are not...
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New Website on Bible History
Over at the Text & Canon Institute, we’ve been working for most of 2021 on a new website to help people understand how we got the Bible. I’m happy to say that this week it went live. It’s aimed...
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New Book by Ed Gallagher on the Septuagint’s Place in History and Theology
I’m not sure how I missed this new book by Edmon Gallagher called Translation of the Seventy: History, Reception, and Contemporary Uses of the Septuagint. John Meade probably told me about it 10× and I...
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2021 SBL Blog Dinner @ Hard Rock Cafe
Sunday, 21 November 7:00 pm through 9:00; Cost: $56.89 (ouch!) Buy tickets ahead of time through Eventbrite, seating is limited.Inflation is tearing a hole through restaurant profit margins. In a...
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SBL Presentation on "Archaic Mark" (GA 2427)
At the SBL Annual Meeting in San Diego I gave a presentation on Archaic Mark (GA 2427), "tying up some loose ends." This paper was originally slotted for another day, but since the session was turned...
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On the Comma Johanneum in printed editions, "Which TR?" and working from...
A long-ish post, but only because I care about data and getting it right.One of the criticisms of Textus Receptus (henceforth, TR) advocacy is the question, "Which Textus Receptus?" (See the article by...
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