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New 2nd-Century ‘Sayings of Jesus’ Oxyrhynchus Papyrus
Volume 87 of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri is apparently out today and it lists some pretty exciting papyri. From the website:This volume includes editions of fifty-eight papyri and one text on parchment....
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Synopsis of P.Oxy. 5575, Matt, Luke, and Thomas
I had a little time on Friday afternoon to work through the editors’ editio princeps of P.Oxy. 5575 and I hope to write some more on it soon. But in the meantime, I thought I might share a first pass I...
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New book on Sinai Palimpsests (Open Access)
A very interesting new book has just been published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (and is available on Open Access): Claudia RAPP - Giulia ROSSETTO - Jana GRUSKOVÁ - Grigory KESSEL (Eds.), New...
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New Book: Can We Recover the Original Text of the New Testament?
Released last week is a new book edited by Abidan Shah and Dave Black called Can We Recover the Original Text of the New Testament?. It includes all the papers given last year at Abidan’s church...
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How Many Greek NT Manuscripts Are There Really?
That’s a question I get asked a lot. It’s a question many Christian apologists and skeptics of Christianity ask. And, it’s the question that Katie Leggett and Greg Paulson answered very carefully and...
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The History of Codex Vaticanus in NT Textual Scholarship
Congratulations are in order for An-Ting Yi for the successful defense of his thesis “From Erasmus to Maius: The History of Codex Vaticanus in New Testament Textual Scholarship” at Vrije Universiteit...
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Lunch at the Evangelical Theological Society meeting
If you're going to ETS in San Antonio this year, feel free to join us for lunch! We try to have something informal at ETS every year.Let's meet outside the bookstalls at 11:45 AM Wednesday, 15 November...
View ArticleUpdate from CSNTM on Their Oxford Expedition
Here’s a nice video from Dan Wallace on their recent trip to the Bodleian. Sounds like they made some exciting discoveries, including several palimpsests that may become legible finally.
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Explaining a Discrepancy in the Number of Greek NT Manuscripts
In my post last week, I pointed to a blog by the folks at INTF giving the number of known Greek NT manuscripts. Their number was 5,700. But some eagle-eyed readers may remember reading in Jacob...
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Peterson: A Recounting of My Accounting of the Difficulty of Counting
Having blogged about the discrepancy between the number of manuscripts in Myths and Mistakes and the number recently given by INTF, I asked Jacob Peterson, the author of the chapter in question, to...
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Clement of Alexandria and the (Canonical) Gospel of Mark (a pedantic post)
In Oxford this term we have a colloquium or reading group working through and discussing Simon Gathercole's brilliant new book, The Gospel and the Gospels: Christian Proclamation and Early Jesus Books...
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Another manuscript to strike from the Liste? Greg. 724
Because we have been discussing the difficulty of counting manuscripts lately, I decided to jump in with my own way of making things worse minor contribution: It might be the case that Gregory 724...
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New Volume of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism is Out
The new volume 28 (2023) of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism has just been published here, and it is packed with twelve articles and some reviews. I have pasted contents and links below....
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IGNTP Videos on YouTube
Today at SBL, I will be giving a paper in a special section on the 75th anniversary of The International Greek New Testament Project. Revisiting their website reminded me that the IGNTP set up a...
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Distigmai Revisited: When Material Analysis Catches Up with Common Sense
Fourteen years ago, on this blog, I summarized co-blogger Peter Head's paper at the SBL in New Orleans in 2009: ”The Marginalia of Codex Vaticanus: Putting the Distigmai (Formerly known as 'Umlauts')...
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Call for Papers: 2024 CSNTM Text & Manuscript Conference
From Dan Wallace and CSNTM:The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (Plano, Texas) welcomes proposals for the second CSNTM Text & Manuscript Conference, scheduled to take place on...
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Where should textual criticism be discussed in systematic theology?
This is a question I have been pondering since giving my paper at ETS this year on textual criticism in the Reformation. Note carefully that the question is not how or if to discuss textual criticism,...
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New ICC Volume on 1 Peter
I don't know if anyone's seen a copy of the new ICC volume on 1 Peter by Travis B. Williams and David G. Horrell. I haven't, but I know its expected to be a major contribution. What caught my attention...
View ArticleKirsopp Lake Hits the Mainstream
This is too good not to share. I do not know the context of this, but it's from an episode of the popular U.S. sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.I want to honour #AndreBraugher's contribution to New Testament...
View ArticleOxford Summer School in Greek Palaeography
Highly RecommendedThe ninth Lincoln College International Summer School in Greek Palaeography will be held on 29 July - 3 August 2024. The school offers a five-day introduction to the study of Greek...
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