R.I.P. Rodolphe Kasser (1927-2013)
On Thursday 8 October, world-renowned Coptologist Rodolphe Kasser passed away.Kasser was involved in the editing and publication of numerous important manuscripts, including Coptic gnostic texts from...
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Papal spelling error
This is how the new papal medal looked like:Clearly Jesus is spelled as Lesus. According to the source of this story (in Dutch), the medals have been withdrawn. And it has now also made the BBC.
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Articles and Reviews of Interest in Journal of Theological Studies
There is a a score of interesting articles and reviews related to manuscript studies and textual criticism in the current issue of Journal of Theological Studies, Vol. 64/2 (October) 2013:Articles...
View ArticleKarlheinz Schüssler - sad news
I have heard from David Parker the sad news that Prof. Karlheinz Schüssler (Salzburg) died in a car crash last Monday. Prof. Schüssler was editor of Biblia Coptica (the effort to register...
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A Curious Image of the Sun in Revelation 9:2
When you do history, the only real discoveries consist of unearthing things that everyone, or some, or at least the discover, did not know about till then.I had this experience when I followed up a...
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Hon.-Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Schüssler, RIP
As mentioned previously, the prominent Coptologist and Bible scholar, Karlheinz Schüssler, passed away in a tragic car accident on October 8, 2013. He was an honorary Professor at the University of...
View ArticleTC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism vol. 18 (2013)
Two articles and four reviews have been published so far in the current volume of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism vol. 18 (2013)– see contents below – and there is more coming soon.As one...
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The Genealogy of Manuscripts and the CBGM
Whilst working on my paper for the upcoming SBL in Baltimore (abstract here), I wrote a section which I cannot use in the paper, but would love to get some comments on. It is not about the Coherence...
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Blog Dinner SBL Baltimore 2013
Our annual blog dinner will take place on Sunday night, 24 November following the Textual Criticism / Digital Humanities joint session. We have a reservation at the Hard Rock Café in the "Beatles'...
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When is a Manuscript a Minuscule?
Here is one of those enigmatic treasures that can be found among the later manuscripts, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Pluteo VIII.14. It is a composite manuscript that in its current shape contains...
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Reply to Parker's Review of The Early Text(s) of the New Testament
I have recently read David Parker's review of The Early Text of the New Testament (eds. Hill and Kruger; OUP, 2012) with great interest, since I have contributed to that volume with an essay. The...
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British Library post Images of Early Christian texts on papyrus
The British Library has posted some nice images recently (announced here).Egerton Papyrus 2 (P. Lond. Christ. 1/P. Egerton 2, the Egerton Gospel) Papyrus 1531 (P. Oxy. IV 654, fragment of the Gospel of...
View ArticleTextual History and the Reception of Scripture in Early Christianity
SBL Press recently announced the following volume:Johannes de Vries and Martin Karrer, editors, Textual History and the Reception of Scripture in Early Christianity: Textgeschichte und Schriftrezeption...
View ArticleCall for Papers: Culture in Christian Egypt 284-641 AD
An invitation to a conference in Egypt, Cairo 1-2nd April 2014 about "Thought and Culture in Christian Egypt 284-641 AD.It will be hold at Ain Shams university, Faculty of Arts. Fees of the conference...
View ArticleNews from CSNTM: Chester Beatty Papyri On-line
PRESSRELEASE FROM CSNTM:We are pleased to announce that as of Nov 8, high-resolution digital images of the Chester Beatty Papyri have been posted online at...
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The Chester Beatty Library Expedition: Guestpost by Peter Malik
The following is a report by Peter Malik, who was invited to join the CSNTM expedition to photograph the Chester Beatty papyri – photos which have just been published on-line (see previous post). A...
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SBL Supersale on The Epistle of Jude: Its Text and Transmission
The SBL Annual Meeting is at hand. I will fly to Baltimore today. At the meeting (only) Andrew Knapp of Eisenbrauns will run a special sale on my monograph, The Epistle of Jude: Its Text and...
View ArticleFirst impressions of David Trobisch's User's Guide to Neste-Aland 28
There is something about 'first impressions'. The first pages will determine how critically and sympathetically I will read the remainder of the book, how prepared I am to take the author on trust, and...
View ArticleBay Psalm Book
A copy of the first book known to have been printed in America - an English translation of the Psalms published in 1640) was sold at auction for $12,500,000 (plus extras). Highlights of the auction and...
View ArticleSBL: The Public Reading of Texts in Early Christianity
I will start my posts about SBL with the last day. After a visit to the hotel gym I was at the door of the bookroom for the 8AM rush. I managed to snag the display copy of New Documents 10 and picked...
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