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New Book on Greek Palimpsests at Saint Catherine’s
An email informs me of a new, open-access book that will be of interest to readers here. It’s called Greek Palimpsests at Saint Catherine’s Monastery (Sinai): Three Euchologia as Case Studies. The...
View ArticleTC Journal vol. 27 (2022) Is Out
I have the pleasure to announce that vol. 27 (2022) of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism is finally published after some delay. A number of reviews will be added soon, but we could not wait...
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The Evolution of the Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls
Emanuel Tov is the most well-known textual critic of the Hebrew Bible and for good reason. Under his leadership, thirty-three volumes of the authoritative series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (DJD)...
View ArticleRecent Unsubstantiated Critiques of the CBGM (Pastorelli and Alexanderson)
At the SNTS in Leuven last summer, David Pastorelli came up to me during a break and handed over an off-print of an article, "La mise en oeuvre de la cohérence prégénéalogique dans le cadre de la...
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Ioannis Karavidopoulos (1937–2023)
INTF shared yesterday the passing of Ioannis Karavidopoulos. I never had the chance to meet him but I have friends who did. I believe he was the only Eastern Orthodox scholar on the UBS committee at...
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Robinson’s Defense of Byzantine Priority in Spanish
Norman Simón Rodríguez has translated Maurice Robinson’s essay defending the Byzantine priority position into Spanish. You can read it free online.
View Article‘Fragments of Truth’ Now Free to Watch Online
Craig Evans shares word that his Fragments of Truth documentary on the text of the New Testament is now free to watch on YouTube. He’s also uploaded a few extras, including the video below with the...
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Codex Sassoon Sells for $38m
We wrote earlier about the sale of Codex Sassoon which was billed, with some exaggeration, as the earliest, most complete copy of the Hebrew Bible. Less exaggerated, as it turns out, was the claim that...
View Article2023 Birmingham Colloquium Papers Online
Thanks to Hugh Houghton and his team for putting on the latest Birmingham Colloquium. The videos are now up on YouTube here. The theme this year was Catena, Marginalia and the IGNTP. I have sadly never...
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William Eyre: Neglected Figure in the History of Textual Criticism?
I recently acquired access to the substantial three-volume collection of James Ussher’s correspondence edited by Elizabethanne Boran. Ussher is most famous today for his very specific dating of...
View ArticleWhy We Wrote Myths & Mistakes in Two Tweets
Twitter is not exactly famous for nuance, but at least it reminds you from time to time of the value of writing books. Today was one such day. Here are two tweets, from different ends of the spectrum...
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New Series “Papyri and the New Testament”
I just discovered today that Brill has a new series called “Papyri and the New Testament” edited by Peter Arzt-Grabner, John S. Kloppenborg, and Christina M. Kreinecker. Here’s the publisher’s...
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Ending of Mark Papers Published
The papers from the Mark 16 conference around this time last year have now been published in the latest issue of Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin. I haven't had a chance to read them...
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Curetonian Syriac Gospels Digitized
I learned some good news by way of Ian Mills on Twitter today. The British Library has now digitized Add MS 14451, better known as the Curetonian Syriac Gospels. There are a handful of leaves in other...
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Three New Essays on Theology and Textual Criticism
At ETS last year, the conveners of the session on inerrancy invited several people to give papers on inerrancy and textual criticism. That included me and my coblogger Dirk Jongkind and Matthew Bennet...
View ArticleTextual Criticism in the 1970s and 1980s
Was there an interlude in the discipline of NT textual criticism in the mid-20th century? Eldon Epp thought so. Kurt Aland disagreed. Whichever side you take, I noticed an interest contrast today in an...
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Parablepsis to the Rescue in Jude 12
Jude 12 has an above average number of variants in it. But one in particular is quite striking. It’s the addition of the words γογγυσταὶ μεμψίμοιροι κατὰ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας αὐτῶν πορευόμενοι (“grumblers,...
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A Tribute to Gordon Fee
It’s been almost a year since Gordon Fee passed away. I wrote a little about his passing at the time and linked to other obituaries for him. Now the latest issue of the Journal of Pentecostal Theology...
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J. Gresham Machen on Conjecture
J. Gresham Machen is known for many things: starting Westminster Seminary, starting the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, writing a widely used introductory Greek grammar (one still used when I was in high...
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