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Two Interviews with Peter Head
Ferdie Mulder recently sat down with Peter Head for a recorded interview and he has now posted the video. The geese get a bit excited at points, but don’t let that spoil it for you. The second video is...
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Passion Translation Removed from Bible Gateway
Here’s a bit of Bible translation news from last month. The very popular translation website Biblegateway.com has removed the Passion Translation from its list of available Bibles. Christianity Today...
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Ozoliņš on Who Killed Goliath
Over at the TCI, we’ve just published a new article by Kaspars Ozoliņš on the question of who killed Goliath. The issue, if you’re unfamiliar (like I was), is that 2 Sam 21.19 is clearly in conflict...
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Luke Timothy Johnson on Scholarship
Nijay Gupta has just published a short interview with the prolific NT scholar Luke Timothy Johnson. It follows on the publication of his new memoir. It is well worth reading. There is quite a bit of...
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A New Series on the Text of Isaiah 53
The Text and Canon Institute has launched a new series of articles on several of the crucial textual problems in Isaiah's Fourth Servant Song (Isaiah 52:13–53:12). The series will focus on the problems...
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Donation of a Manuscript Leaf (L1663) to the Goodspeed Collection
Two years ago or so I discovered a new leaf from a lectionary in Uppsala. This was the seventeenth Greek New Testament manuscript in Sweden and I started to research it, which eventually led to the...
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CSNTM Conference near Dallas, TX
There’s still time to register for the CSNTM Text & Manuscript Conference. The gathering will take place May 19th–20th near Dallas, Texas. The theme is Pen, Print, and Pixels and features plenary...
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Good Friday Hymn
I enjoyed this hymn in church this morning. I'm not so sure my daughter was interested in my discussion of the third verse.
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Clare Rotschild on the Muratorian Canon
Clare K. Rotschild's new monograph on The Muratorian Fragment (STAC 132, Mohr Siebeck) with text, translation and commentary has just been published. Publisher's description: This volume offers an...
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Prof. Henk Jan de Jonge (1943–2022)
I’ve heard now from several of you about the passing of Prof. Henk Jan de Jonge. His name may be most familiar to our readers for his work on Erasmus and the Comma Johanneum, work I have referenced...
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Three PhD positions on 1 Cor. at KU Leuven
Good news out of Belgium: KU Leuven, Belgium, offers 3 PhD positions (4 years) for suitably qualified candidates to form part of the research team of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) funded...
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Book Notice: Jerome’s Epistle 106
Michael Graves sends word that his new edition of Jerome’s Epistle 106 is now available from SBL Press. he told me about it last Fall and I am very pleased to see it’s out. There is lots of very...
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Reprint of Sturz’s The Byzantine Text-Type
I have good news to report today. For years I’ve looked in vain for an affordable used copy of Harry Sturz’s The Byzantine Text-Type & New Testament Textual Criticism. It looks like that will not...
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Pierpont’s unpublished papers
Thanks to the generosity of Maurice Robinson, one of my recent projects at CSNTM (where I have been a full-time Research Fellow since August 2020) has been scanning the unpublished papers of William G....
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A Fourth-Century Witness Excluded from NA28
The other day I was looking at the textual variation in 1 Peter 5:7 between ἐπιρίψαντες an ἐπιρίψατε: “... casting/cast all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”Now if one compares the...
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“Guest Post” from the Grave: William G. Pierpont on E.F. Hills
With the permission of Maurice Robinson, I am making available one of Pierpont’s unpublished papers, an evaluation of E.F. Hills’ defense of the textus receptus. Some formatting may have changed a bit,...
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Recent Writings on Textual Criticism
Various things have come across my screen in the last few weeks on textual criticism and I haven’t had time to read them all. So I’m collecting them here both to remind myself later and for anyone who...
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Colwell on Archaic Mark
For a while now I have been casually on the lookout for an article in the Emory University Quarterly, and so far I haven't had access. I searched this morning and found it online: Ernest Cadman...
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Video Interviews with Text Critics
Dwayne Green is a pastor up in Canada who’s been putting out a steady stream of video interviews on textual criticism and Bible translation lately. As a pastor, he’s especially interested in theology...
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Textual Confidence
The day before the CSNTM conference in Dallas back in May, I sat down with some good friends and we filmed seven videos on why we think we can have confidence in the Scriptures without having to fall...
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