God rest ye merry Gentlemen
I should think that some textual critics will enjoy this short musical interlude.
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Last Two Videos on NT Textual Criticism and Askeland on GJW
I’ve now uploaded the last two guest lectures from my Fall TC course. The first is from James Snapp on Mark 16 and the second is Richard Brash on whether Cornelius Van Til’s theology leads to...
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CSNTM 2022 Text & Manuscript Conference
Readers may have heard that CSNTM is hosting its inaugural Text & Manuscript Conference May 19-20, 2022. The theme is Pen, Print, & Pixels and will feature plenary presentations throughout each...
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ECM of Mark Cites the Letter to Theodore (Secret Mark Stuff)
Yesterday, as I was consulting the recently published ECM of Mark, I came across some patristic citations by Clem (= Clemens of Alexandria) in several variation-units in the critical apparatus: Mark...
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Obbink loses $7m lawsuit and is hiding from authorities
Two reports have recently come out detailing the latest turn in the story of Dirk Obbink and First-Century Mark. According to der Zeit and Christianity Today, Obbink is living in a houseboat south of...
View ArticleSCIO's Workshop Logos 2022
SCIO's annual textual and Biblical studies' workshop Logos 2022 is now open for applications.Logos is designed to equip graduate and advanced undergraduate students in the fields of textual studies,...
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Peter Rodgers’s New Novel The Pelican and the Phoenix
Wondering what to get the text critic in your life for Christmas? Peter Rodgers has your answer. The third novel in his scribes series has just been published. From Peter:I am writing to ask if you...
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New Book on Edgar Goodspeed
There is a new book just out on two important years in the life and work of Edgar J. Goodspeed. Todd M. Hickey & James G. Keenan, Edgar J. Goodspeed, America's First Papyrologist (California...
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CSNTM at Houston Baptist University
A couple weeks ago I was in Houston with a few others from CSNTM. We have some brand new equipment that we were using at the Dunham Bible Museum at Houston Baptist University. The museum's director,...
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A New Lectionary Leaf (L1663) in Uppsala
Until recently, sixteen Greek New Testament manuscripts in Sweden were included in the official register of Greek NT manuscripts maintained by the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung (INTF)...
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Call for Papers: The Pastoral Implications for Pseudepigraphy and Anonymity...
At SBL this year, Randy Richards let me know about an upcoming conference from the The Ellis Foundation for Biblical Research and they have now given a call for papers. Note that their are awards,...
View ArticleWatch Matthew’s Nativity (and More) in Koine
Ben Kantor and the team at koinegreek.com has produced another stellar video of the Gospels in koine. Before they did Mark and this time they’ve done all of Matthew with a twist—the dubbing is all from...
View ArticleSeminar on the ending of Mark
Tyndale House New Testament Seminar LivestreamDr Mina Monier | Wednesday 12 January 2022, 13:00-14:00Dr Monier will be presenting a paper on the MARK16 Virtual Research Environment and the ending of...
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Update from Alan Bunning on Center for NT Restoration
The following is the latest update from Alan Bunning on his Center for New Testament Restoration.It’s probably about time to give you another update about what has been going on lately at the CNTR....
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An Interview between Kenneth Clark and Maurice Robinson from 1977
The following interview from the 1970s is courtesy of Maurice Robinson shared here with his permission.During the time I was studying NT textual criticism under Kenneth W. Clark, and just before...
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R.I.P. Robert F. Hull, Jr.
Jeff Miller sends word that Robert Hull has passed. Readers may know him best from his book on TC. From Jeff:Many readers of this blog will be saddened—though not as those who have no hope—to learn...
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Pluritext Conference Proceedings (and a Little Backstory)
Some of you may remember times when people actually attended conferences in person. I hear that some living humans, in fact, met at SBL last November, an achievement I highly applaud (and, as a Central...
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The Graves of Agnes Smith Lewis and F.J.A. Hort
In a piece I was writing today I mentioned the Sinaitic Syriac and how the Smith sisters were involved in its identification. As the Cambridge connections are obvious I wondered where they were...
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Hixson on Lesson from P137 or “First-Century Mark”
Over at the Text & Canon Institute, Elijah purple-is-my-favorite-color Hixson has a new article on lessons from the “First-Century Mark” (aka P137) saga. Readers will probably remember that Hixson...
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Should the Next NA/UBS Editions Use Numbers for Majuscules?
Florian Voss asks on Twitter. What say you?What would you think if the new editions of the #nestlealand (NA29) and the #UBSGNT (UBS6) used numbers for all majuscules instead of letters, as it is now...
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