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Court Rules that Obbink Owes Hobby Lobby $7m
The news is out that the civil case between Hobby Lobby and Dirk Obbink has been decided. The ruling is a “default judgment” in favor of Hobby Lobby for an incredible $7,085,100 plus interest. (A...
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Gospel of Mark in Herculaneum!
Since Youssef Nader, Luke Farritor, and Julian Schilliger won the Vesuvius Challenge, we've seen more and more of the carbonized scrolls from Herculaneum identified and read. The Herculaneum Papyri...
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Resources for Reading Greek Minuscule
Over at the Text & Canon Institute website, Clark Bates has put together a helpful list of resources for dealing with Greek abbreviations, contractions, and ligatures. It should be especially...
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Two items from Erasmus on Stunica
I've been reading through vol. 74 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series—Erasmus' controversies with Stunica—Diego López de Zúñiga, if you prefer (not to be confused with the other Diego López de...
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“Why I Trust the New Testament Is What God Wrote”: Contend 2024
Over the weekend, I spoke for one of the break-out sessions at Contend—an apologetics conference at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary that is geared for high school students. The title of my...
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What level of confidence we should have in reconstructions of fragmentary...
With a fragmentary papyrus manuscript—as the majority of our NT papyri are—and a known text being copied, editors very often reconstruct the missing portions of text beyond the boundaries of the extant...
View ArticleVideo Look at the New ECM of Revelation
Greg Paulson has recorded a short video on YouTube giving an overview of the new four-volume (!) Editio Critica Maior edition of Revelation. One whole volume is dedicated to punctuation and “textual...
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J. K. Elliott (1943–2024)
Last week marked the passing of one of the great NT textual critics of the 20th/21st-centuries. J. Keith Elliott has been a staple of textual criticism as long (and longer) than I’ve been a student of...
View ArticleOn Female Scribes
There is a really good discussion of a significant amount of evidence for female involvement in literary activities such as reading, authoring, and writing, in Leah Mascia, 'Female Monastics and...
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“[Jesus] Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Messiah?” (Matt 27:17)
In this clip I explain for laymen what textual criticism is about (in Swedish with Norwegian subtitles), referring to the example of a textual problem in Matt 27:16-17 concerning the name of the...
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Text-Types Conference
Yesterday afternoon we wrapped up our first overseas Text & Canon Institute Colloquium which was on the topic of text-types in NT textual criticism. We had a very good time over two days discussing...
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The Women Behind Your Critical Editions
Today, in cooperation with the INTF in Münster, we co-publish an important post written by Greg Paulson and Katie Leggett in order to highlight some of the women behind the critical editions in wide...
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Notable Textual Changes in the NRSVue NT
Produced by the National Council of Churches, the NRSV has long been the Bible of mainline Protestant denominations, those in the ecumenical movement, and the wider academy. It has never really been...
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Solving a Puzzle in P136
The following is a blog post I first wrote while on sabbatical in 2022 in Wake Forest. While there, I spent a nice afternoon with Libbie Schrader Polczer at the wonderful David M. Rubenstein Rare Book...
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The Epistle of Jude: Its Text and Transmission as E-book
My monograph The Epistle of Jude: Its Text and Transmission is now available as an e-book for the first time through Amazon (Kindle). Since the publisher went out of business and the dsitributor...
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Book Notices
Following Tommy’s post about an older book newly released as an ebook, I thought I would share some of the books that have recently come to my attention that might be of interest to our readers. I’ve...
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14th Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism
Hugh Houghton sends word that the call for papers it out for the next Birmingham Colloquium. I wish I could say I have been to one of these but I’ve never been able to make it. I’ve heard they’re...
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John Broadus (1827–1895) on New Testament Textual Criticism
Many years ago (when I was still in seminary), I spent some time looking into John Broadus’ approach to textual criticism. Nothing ever materialized (I became too busy), but I still think it would be a...
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The Epistle of Jude as Digital Logos Research Edition
Recently I announced that my book and text-critical edition, The Epistle of Jude: Its Text and Transmission is available as e-book through Amazon. Now it can also be pre-ordered as a Logos Research...
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A quick note on the blog dinner
A few of you have asked me about our annual blog dinner at SBL. After reaching out to my cobloggers, the lot has fallen on me to find a place. I’ve reached out to a bunch of restaurants to see which is...
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