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2024 Blog Dinner Tickets On Sale
I am pleased to announce that the 2024 ETC Blog Dinner is a go! Thanks to generous support from CSNTM it will also be much more affordable (hurray!). This year’s event will be Sunday night at 7:00pm at...
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ETC lunch at ETS
For a few years now, we’ve had an informal lunch at ETS in order to be able to get together with people who are not staying for SBL and as a result can’t come to our annual blog dinner. Everyone...
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New Volume of TC is Out
Volume 29 (2024) of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism has just been published. This volume contains five articles, four notes and one "pedagogical note" (a new feature). The volume is not yet...
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2 Free Grad Student Tickets for the Blog Dinner
Being a grad student is tough. Money is often very tight and, if you can manage to get to SBL, there often isn't much in the coffer left for meals. But, thanks to Daniel Sharp, I have two complimentary...
View ArticleA major new article on the Distigmai in Codex Vaticanus
Just in time for Christmas: Nehemia Gordon, Patrick Andrist, Oliver Hahn, Pavlos D. Vasileiadis, Nelson Calvillo, and Ira Rabin, ‘Did the Original Scribes Write the Distigmai in Codex Vaticanus B of...
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1QIsaa and Shifting Categories
Sean McDowell and I recently had a conversation about 1QIsaa. You can access the conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90_Mpiz1ons&t=333sI repeat some of my points here along with some...
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The Top Ten Essential Books in NT Textual Criticism—According to AI
AI destroying the joy of human creativity, as drawn by AITommy's list of top ten essential works in NT textual criticism has had a very good run on this website. It remains our most read blog post...
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Resolving the Mystery of GA 2776
I’m in the process of working through all the manuscripts in the Liste tagged as containing Pauline content. One of these mss is GA 2766. The Liste describes the contents of this ms as “aprK.” It dates...
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An Excellent (Relatively) New Book on Palimpsests
I've been rather quiet over the past few years, due to the arduous (and occasionally enjoyable) task of editing the ECM Revelation, which was finally published last year. Another little project I've...
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Appreciating 11Q5: A Comparative Look at the Great Psalms Scroll
11Q5 (11QPsa), known as the Great Psalms Scroll, is on display at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA. This exhibition has been made available by the Israelite Antiquities Authority and the...
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New York Times Review of Westcott-Hort
Exactly 143 years ago to the day, America's paper of record (aka The New York Times) published a review of a recently published introduction to a Greek New Testament by two Cambridge scholars named...
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Correcting a Dead Sea Scroll
Correcting a digital text today is simple and neat. I simply highlight the text to be deleted and press my “delete” button on my keyboard. When I notice a mistake right away, I can simply press the...
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Darrell Post on a New Lectionary Group
The following is a guest post by Darrell Post who has been researching John 11 for many years (see here and here and here). In this connection I also want to mention that Post has done a great job with...
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GA 2136, Another Copy of a Printed Edition
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m in the process of working through all the Pauline manuscripts in the Liste, in order to get a precise count of which manuscripts contain some portion of Romans. Of...
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