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Historic Editions of the English Bible Online
Some years ago, Peter Head put together a lovely list of historic editions of the Greek NT that are available free online. I have used that list more times than I can count. It’s wonderful to have them...
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Montoro: Preferring the Longer Reading at Matthew 5:21–22
The following is a guest post from Peter Montoro who is working on a PhD at the University of Birmingham on the NT text of Chrysostom.Recently, as I was preaching through the Gospel of Matthew in our...
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New Society and Conference on Bible Craftsmanship
Here’s a new development that looks really great. It’s a new organization called the Society of Bible Craftsmanship (SOBC) for the promotion of quality Bible production. From what I can tell, it’s...
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The Comma Johanneum in the Earliest English Bibles
Last week I published a list of historic English Bibles to complement Pete Head’s list. Today, I want to illustrate one way to use it. In this case, I am interested in how the earliest printed English...
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Stephen Carlson drew my attention to this interesting blogpost, “Can We Trust Medieaval Copies of Ancient Books?” by the classicist Peter Gainsford “Kiwi Hellenist.” First he makes five statements...
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Nongbri Article on the Date of Sinaiticus
Brent Nongbri is back with another article redating a New Testament manuscript. This time, it’s Codex Sinaiticus and he suggests pushing the date range into the early fifth century. The article is in...
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Snapp on the Distigmai in Vaticanus
Over on his blog, James Snapp has a new post on the double dots in Vaticanus. These dots have been of significant interest ever since Phil Payne first noticed them. Following Niccum and Head, Snapp...
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Pierpont: Requisites and Basics for Textual Criticism of the Greek New Testament
Here is another installment in the series of unpublished papers by Williams G. Pierpont, scanned from the Maurice Robinson Collection. This two-page essay is undated. I don't know when we'll be able to...
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Pierpont: Dean Burgon and the Received Text
Pierpont sent the first page of this short essay to Maurice Robinson on June 8th, 1990. The first page appears to have been written originally on April 14th, 1990. Later, on July 13th, Pierpont sent...
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50% Off Scribes & Scripture Book
My new book with John Meade comes out in October and should interest ETC readers. The subject—how we got the Bible—is intentionally broad and so is the audience. The goal is to introduce the subject to...
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Richard Brash on Preservation (again)
Over at the TCI website, Richard Brash has a short argument about providence and textual preservation. Along with his careful distinctions between two methods and two modes of providence, I appreciated...
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Trouble Commenting on the Blog
If you’ve been having trouble commenting on the blog using your Google account, as I have, it may be because of your cookie settings. From Blogger’s help files:Blogger uses third-party cookies so you...
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Comparing New Testament Manuscripts
Recently I had some reason to compare a number of manuscripts in Acts and was happy to be able to use the CBGM tools for this, in particular the ‘Comparison of Witnesses’. The reason for this post is...
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Church Conference on Textual Criticism Near Raleigh
This Saturday, Abidan Shah is hosting a conference at his church in Henderson, NC on the text of the New Testament. Abidan is a former PhD student of Maurice Robinson and wrote on the quest for the...
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Where the Priority Lies in Byzantine Priority
Last Saturday was the textual criticism conference at Clearview Church with myself, Maurice Robinson, Dave Black, and Abidan Shah. You can read Dave’s recap here. I can add my thanks to our hosts for...
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FOMO, Missing Verses, and Helping Laypeople Think about Textual Criticism
In this post, I want to talk about another observation from my time at the conference last week. It concerns the way people think about the “missing verses” (e.g., John 5.4) in modern translations. I...
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SBL Blog Dinner Denver 2022
The leadership of Trinity Church Denver have graciously agreed to host our annual SBL Blog dinner in their basement meeting space. $20 covers pizza, salad and drinks, which will be catered from Fat...
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Erasmus’ Letter to Maarten van Dorp (1515)
I’ve been reading Erasmus lately. Erasmus, according to Wikipedia In 1514, Erasmus’ friend Maarten van Dorp in Leuven had written a public letter to Erasmus (published as Ep. 304 in the Collected Works...
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An interesting problem with the Editio Critica Maior (Mark 10.45)
So I was minding my own business and reading an article about Mark 10.45 (M. Thiessen, 'The Many for One or One for the Many? Reading Mark 10:45 in the Roman Empire'HTR 109 (2016), 447-466) when I...
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On the Essence of a Byzantine-priority Method
I do not mean to flog the Byzantine method on this blog, I promise. But I am writing on the topic of method right now and some things just fit better on a blog than in a footnote and I want to record...
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