Textual-Criticism

Daily Gleanings about Colin Whiting’s “Documents from the Luciferians” and Crawford and Zola’s “Gospel of Tatian.”

Daily Gleanings from Todoist on the Pomodoro technique and Peter Gurry on the Harklean Syriac.

Daily Gleanings from Larry Hurtado about early Alexandrian scholarship and INTF about how ECM handles patristic material.

Daily Gleanings from John Meade about his edition of Hexaplaric fragments for Job 22–42 and Brill about open access articles for 50th anniversary of JSJ.

Daily Gleanings about criteria for determining authenticity and Brill’s “Dictionary of Ancient Greek.”

Daily Gleanings from Larry Hurtado about early Christian investment in manuscripts and “extant” evidence.

University College London has posted on YouTube their 1971 documentary Greek Papyri: The Rediscovery of the Ancient World. HT: Tommy Wasserman Sean Hadley, one of our current PhD students in Humanities, positively reviews Robbie Castleman, Darian Lockett, and Stephen Presley’s edited volume Explorations in Interdisciplinary Reading: Theological, Exegetical, and Reception Historical Perspectives (Pickwick, 2017). Along the way, Sean provides some kind comments about my contribution in the volume. ...

Freedom discusses how to use their “block all except” whitelisting feature to block out distractions and interruptions. For more discussion of Freedom, see these prior posts. John Meade surveys ch. 4 of Ronald Hendel and Jan Joosten’s How Old Is the Hebrew Bible?(YUP, 2018) and promises a follow-up post “attempting to engage the authors on one of their examples from chapter 4 with a view to showing how they think diachony and TC work together.” ...

Daily Gleanings about the “Text and Canon Institute” and improving performance by minimizing distractions.

Daily Gleanings about digitizing medieval manuscripts and plans for the NA29 and UBS6.

Daily Gleanings about Codex Robertsonianus and the application of “YHWH texts” to Jesus.

Gleanings about textual criticism.

Gleanings about social media and religion, as well as newly digitized Greek New Testament manuscripts.

Gleanings about focus and the Kurzgefasste Liste.

Gleanings about Logos Bible Software and the Kurzgefasste Liste.

The Vatican Library has an online facsimile of Codex Marchalianus (7th–8th c.). The codex contains the text of the prophets and associated writings.

Internet Archive has a full-text PDF of Codex Sarravianus, a 5th-century majuscule witness to the Septuagint.

Crossway has provided a nice video introduction to the new Greek New Testament edition, produced at Tyndale House.

Holger Strutwolf has made the Editio Critica Maior for Acts freely available online.

Tommy Wasserman and Peter Gurry have a new introduction to the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM).

According to the Tyndale Greek New Testament’s FAQs sheet, a digital version of the text is set to be made available for free.

Dirk Jongkind reflects on harmonization triggers, especially in the Pauline corpus.

The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts has digitized 10 new gospel manuscripts, with dates ranging from the 10th to the 14th centuries. For additional details, see CSNTM’s announcement or view the manuscripts in their online library.

The latest issue of the Tyndale Bulletin carries Kim Phillips’s essay, “A New Codex from the Scribe behind the Leningrad Codex: L17.” According to the abstract, Samuel b. Jacob was the scribe responsible for the production of the so-called Leningrad Codex (Firkowich B19a), currently our earliest complete Masoretic Bible codex. This article demonstrates that another codex from the Firkowich Collection, containing the Former Prophets only, is also the work of Samuel b. Jacob, despite the lack of a colophon to this effect. The argument is based on a combination of eleven textual and para-textual features shared between these two manuscripts, and other manuscripts known to have been produced by the same scribe. ...

On Academia.edu, Dan Batovici has posted an uncorrected proof of his essay “Two B Scribes in Codex Sinaiticus?” BASP 54 (2017). According to the abstract, The history of scribal hand identification in Codex Sinaiticus is a fairly complicated one. The most recent identification, splitting the work of Tischendorf’s scribe B in B1 and B2, was attempted by Amy Myshrall in a 2015 contribution, as a result of the work on the Codex Sinaiticus digitizing project completed in 2009. This article will assess the argument proposed by Amy Myshrall for distinguishing the two new scribes, and it argues that there is not enough reason to adopt the newly proposed distinction. ...

William Ross has an interesting interview with Robert Kraft that focuses on Kraft’s path toward and work in the field of Septuagint Studies, in addition to his hopes for its future.

Peter Head has helpfully spotted what seems to be an erratum in NA28’s text of Phil 1:23. There is perhaps some room for debate on the matter (e.g., Maurice Robinson’s initial reply). But, Klaus Wachtel has taken “a note for a correction in the next printing of NA28” in the direction of Head’s observation. ...

On Academia.edu, Matthew Larsen has posted his recent Journal for the Study of the New Testament essay on “Accidental Publication, Unfinished Texts and the Traditional Goals of New Testament Textual Criticism.” Peter Head has started a related discussion on the Evangelical Textual Criticism Blog. ...

In its first 2017 issue (currently behind the society membership paywall), the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society has a version of Daniel Wallace’s presidential address from the 2016 annual Evangelical Theological Society meeting: “Medieval Manuscripts and Modern Evangelicals: Lessons from the Past, Guidance for the Future” (5–34). Per the abstract, the essay focuses on ...

Two latest posts on the Tyndale New Testament blog contain some interesting further comments about the edition and its preparation.