Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project – (Vatican and Bodleian Libraries)
Three years ago (March, 2010), we reported on this blog about a major project to digitize 80000 Vatican MSS. Although the announced project was divided into various phases, there seems to have been...
View Article‘Recent Discussions of Dating New Testament Papyri: Some Observations’
Here is the bibliography/handout for my presentation at tomorrow's conference: Day Conference inPapyrology and Early Christianity/Biblical Studies (11.12.13)C.P. Thiede, ‘Papyrus Magdalen Greek 17...
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The Old Testament in the New
There are a few PhDs waiting to be written on how New Testament manuscripts refer back to the Old Testament. At times they do a marvellous job. Have a look here at the margin of minuscule 1739 at Gal...
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Three year postdoc at INTF, Münster
Postdoc, NT Textual HistoryThe American Bible Society and the German Bible Society are awarding a post-doc research assistant at the Institute for New Testament Textual Research in Münster, Germany....
View ArticleR.I.P. Birger Gerhardsson (1926-2013)
During the holidays, on 25 December, one of Sweden's finest exegetes ever, Prof. em. Birger Gerhardsson, passed away at the age of 87. Gerhardsson was born in 1926 in Vännäs. He studied in Uppsala and...
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10 January 1514: Complutensian Polyglot New Testament
The New Testament volume of the six volume Complutensian Polyglot - Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine in Academia Complutensi Nouiter Impressum - has a colophon at the conclusion of the Apocalypse...
View ArticleThe religious provenance of the Aquila manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah
Edmon L. Gallagher, 'The religious provenance of the Aquila manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah'Journal of Jewish StudiesLXIV (2013), 283-305.Abstract:The Cairo Genizah yielded two palimpsest...
View ArticleConferences
Thought and Culture in Christian Egypt 284-641 AD (Cairo, 1-2 April 2014); already mentioned here.An International Seminar in Coptic Papyrology (Barcelona, 6-13 July 2014): (deadline 15 March 2014):...
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The Text of the NT in Contemporary Research, 2nd Ed., Now in Paperback
I'm happy to announce that The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research, 2nd edition (ed. Ehrman and Holmes; Brill, 2013 [2012]), is now available in a paperback edition, at a considerably...
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Fortunatianus' Commentary on the Gospels
Fortunatianus was bishop of Aquileia in the middle of the fourth century. About him Jerome had the following to say (De Viris Illustribus 97 from here): Fortunatianus, an African by birth, bishop of...
View ArticleThe Gospel of Thomas: a quick guide
Need to remember or revise some basic information about the Gospel of Thomas? Here is a guide I have used before and wrote up for a seminar last week. Gospel according to Thomas: title acc. to the...
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Inscriptions for Catholic Epistles in Sinaiticus (errors in ECM2)
Here are an interesting series of pictures from the header space above the start of the relevant columns of text in Codex Sinaiticus (from the Sinaiticus Project Website):These raise a couple of...
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What does CBGM actually stand for?
Last Monday, when Peter Head, Peter Gurry, and yours truly were having a good old conversation with the Münster folk deep in the heart of the Institute itself, we were playing around with the CBGM as a...
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Codex Zacynthius
Codex Zacynthius is two Greek New Testament manuscripts in one. It is a palimpsest, with two levels of writing throughout. The upper text is lectionary 299, a thirteenth-century gospel lectionary. And...
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Hebrews 5.6 in P46
At Hebrews 5.6, in the citation from Ps 109.4(LXX), P46* clearly has the word EPEUX. The corrector has changed this, by marking the word with dots and writing IEREUS interlinearly. This is an...
View ArticleSBL International Meeting, Call for Papers: Hurry Up!
This year the SBL International Meeting is held in Vienna, Austria 7-10 July. The Call for Papers has been extended to 12 February, so hurry up and submit a proposal to the Working with Biblical...
View ArticlePapyrology summer school
The Centro di Studi Papirologici of Università del Salento, Lecce, is organizing the Seventh Edition of the Scuola Estiva di Papirologia that will take place from July 14th to July 19th 2014.The School...
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More Images of London Manuscripts Online
British Library Add MS 11840 (XII): Gospel Lectionary with ekphonetic notation (Gregory-Aland l189) British Library Add MS 16184 (XIII): New Testament (Gregory-Aland 496) British Library Add MS...
View ArticleMalik on Corrections in Sinaiticus
Peter Malik, 'The Earliest Corrections in Codex Sinaiticus: A Test Case from the Gospel of Mark'Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 50(2013), 207-254.Abstract: One of the most intriguing...
View ArticleA Centennial Tribute to Bruce Metzger: Remembering His Achievements,...
Mike Holmes is giving a special lecture on Feb 13th in Princeton on the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Bruce Metzger. More details here. Let us know if there is video Mike.Update (from the...
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