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When a marginal note becomes the text
Towards the end of his Apology against Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (English translation in Collected Works of Erasmus vol. 83; here if you have institutional access), Erasmus criticizes his friend for...
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About that Dan Wallace quote
The quoteA line from Dan Wallace's foreword to Myths and Mistakes has been making the rounds on the internet, usually in the context of people who want to discredit textual criticism. If you've not...
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R.I.P. Gordon D. Fee
Word has just reached me through Facebook that Gordon Fee has just passed away. Faithful readers of the blog will need no introduction to Fee’s work. He was a rare biblical scholar who made significant...
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Ehrman’s Definition of Textual Criticism
Following our discussion of that Dan Wallace quote about not being overly skeptical about identifying the original text of the NT, here’s a recent series Bart Ehrman has started about textual criticism...
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2022 ETC Lunch at ETS (Wednesday, Nov. 16)
It’s that time again. Time for the annual ETC lunch at ETS in Denver. The ETC lunch is much younger and much less formal than our esteemed dinner. But we know there are some of you who attend ETS but...
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Book Notice: Evangelicals and Digital Bible Use
I’ve just ordered the new book by John Dyer from OUP titled People of the Screen: How Evangelicals Created the Digital Bible and How It Shapes Their Reading of Scripture. John is a longtime evangelical...
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SCIO’s Workshop Logos 2023
SCIO's annual textual and Biblical studies' workshop Logos 2023 in Oxford is now open for applications.Logos is designed to equip graduate and advanced undergraduate students in the fields of textual...
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Why I Cite Westcott and Hort’s Introduction As a Joint Work
It’s fairly common practice among text critics who have actually read Westcott and Hort’s famed Introduction to introduce citations from it as “Hort writes...” or the like. The reason for this is from...
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6 New Funded PhDs at Southeastern Baptist Seminary
I’ve been on sabbatical this Fall at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC. We head back tomorrow. While here, I’ve spent some nice time getting to know Chuck Quarles. Recently,...
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Amalar of Metz on nomina sacra/orthography
I was recently skimming through Amalar of Metz'On the Liturgy (specifically, volume 2) and came across an interesting couple of pages. Not only does Amalar write about the nomina sacra, he also gives a...
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Two Recent Articles from Peter Rodgers
Peter Rodgers sends word that he has two new articles in Filología Neotestamentaria. I can’t seem to link to the specific issues or articles, but here are the titles and abstracts. (Update: I’ve added...
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Hebrew Poetic and Prophetic Discourse Conference in Dallas
On October 18, 2023, Dallas International University is hosting an in-person and virtual conference on Macro Analysis of Hebrew Poetic and Prophetic Discourse. Registration opens in the Spring and...
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Robinson Reviews Stanojević’s Orthodox New Testament Textual Scholarship
In the latest issue of the Southeastern Theological Review, Maurice Robinson has a review of Jovan Stanojević’s recent book Orthodox New Testament Textual Scholarship: Antoniades, Lectionaries, and the...
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Houghton: GA 239 & 304 Do Not Attest the Short Ending of Mark
In the latest issue of NTS, Hugh Houghton has a brief article looking at two catena manuscripts (GA 239 and 304) that both break off after Mark 16:8. The latter is even cited as evidence for the short...
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A Westminster Divine on Codex Alexandrinus
Back in November a man I’ve never met named Stephen Steele sent me an article he’d recently written. On Friday, I finally got around to reading it and commend it to you. Stephen is a minister in...
View ArticleCrash Course in Greek Palaeography
Crash Course in Greek PalaeographyGhent University, 22-23 May 2023The Greek department of Ghent University offers a two-day course in Greek palaeography in collaboration with the Research School...
View ArticleRadboud summer school on Greek papyrology
The second Radboud summer school on Greek papyrology will be held this summer, this time working on unpublished fragments from the Utrecht University Library. Over the course of a week, the...
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Subgrants for Paratext Research in Glasgow
A note from Garrick Allen about new research opportunities that includes two partially-funded PhDs:Dear friends and colleagues,I'm writing to make you aware of a unique opportunity coming from our...
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Martin Heide on Erasmus
Some of our readers may know that Martin Heide, one of our blog members, has written on Erasmus. His book Der einzig wahre Bibeltext? Erasmus von Rotterdam und die Frage nach dem Urtext (The Only True...
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Codex Sassoon Heads to Auction
Sotheby’s has announced the upcoming auction of Codex Sassoon aka The Damascus Pentateuch. They are dubbing it “The Earliest, Most Complete Hebrew Bible” and anticipating that, at $30–50m, it could be...
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