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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Who are these?

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I wonder if anyone can help me identify the textual critics in these ten photos. Who occurs twice?

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37 comments

  1. Mike Holmes6/13/2006 2:35 pm

    Well, #2 is Tischendorf, and #8 is Hort; #4 (a poor photo) appears to be John Wevers?

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  2. Ian Hugh Clary6/13/2006 3:07 pm

    Hmmmm...lemme think:
    1 Peter Head
    2 T. M. Law
    3 Michael Bird
    4 Peter Williams
    5 D Jongkind
    6 Gie Vleugels
    7 Christian Askeland
    8 James Palmer
    9 Tommy Wasserman
    10 Mike Holmes

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  3. P.J. Williams6/13/2006 3:21 pm

    Ian, you forgot to say which one occurs twice.

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  4. C. Stirling Bartholomew6/13/2006 3:27 pm

    #2 is Tischendorf
    #7 is Tischendorf ?

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  5. P.J. Williams6/13/2006 3:27 pm

    #4 is indeed Wevers.

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  6. P.J. Williams6/13/2006 3:29 pm

    Aye, ##2 and 7 are the same.

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  7. Peter M. Head6/13/2006 5:27 pm

    #1 is Westcott (the Freemason - looks like the wrong Westcott)

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  8. Peter M. Head6/13/2006 5:31 pm

    #5 looks like Bart Ehrman. Perhaps he had to wear old fashion clothes at MBI.

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  9. Peter M. Head6/13/2006 5:32 pm

    None of them are very happy. Only the older Tischendorf has the hint of a smile. Perhaps "discovering" Sinaiticus made him happy.

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  10. Peter M. Head6/13/2006 5:33 pm

    #9 & 10 both look exceptionally miserable. Probably clergymen.

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  11. Christian Askeland6/13/2006 5:48 pm

    #7 is Tischendorf for sure. I can even make out in the photo that he is tucking away a stolen manuscript in his pocket.

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  12. C. Stirling Bartholomew6/13/2006 6:03 pm

    #5 looks somewhat like Max Leopold Margolis

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  13. Anonymous6/13/2006 6:42 pm

    These pictures are actually a King James Onlyist hit list. They are the 10 most wanted for "corrupting" the scriptures.

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  14. Mike Holmes6/13/2006 7:04 pm

    Can't be a "KJV only hit list"--#10 is Burgon himself!

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  15. Anonymous6/13/2006 7:58 pm

    ah, good point.

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  16. P.J. Williams6/13/2006 8:32 pm

    I can see what Peter means about the resemblances of #5. #5 is not Margolis, though he is known for his work on the Septuagint.

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  17. Christian Askeland6/13/2006 8:51 pm

    Alfred Rahlfs!

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  18. P.J. Williams6/13/2006 8:51 pm

    Peter, thanks for pointing out my goof on Westcott (now amended)—all part of an attempt to get less usual photos.

    So far we have:
    1 Westcott
    2 Tischendorf
    4 Wevers
    7 Tischendorf
    8 Hort
    10 Burgon

    Peter Head has correctly surmised that #9 is a clergyman. He will also have a chapter devoted to him in a forthcoming work that will survey the history of NT textual criticism.

    I will start with other clues soon if there's no further advance.

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  19. Anonymous6/13/2006 9:17 pm

    #9 is Bengel

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  20. P.J. Williams6/13/2006 10:06 pm

    Bengel and Rahlfs correctly identified. Only two to go...

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  21. Anonymous6/13/2006 10:13 pm

    #9 is not a photgraph, though.
    Call it a pseudofacsimile if you must, but a photographic representation it isn't.

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  22. P.J. Williams6/13/2006 10:16 pm

    Daniel, Good point. No doubt people were held back from identifying #9 by this false lead :-)

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  23. P.J. Williams6/13/2006 10:17 pm

    Of the two who remain, one changed his name; the other changed what came after his name.

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  24. Anonymous6/13/2006 10:18 pm

    I'm going to take a stab at #6 and say it's a young Kurt Aland.

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  25. Mike Holmes6/13/2006 11:28 pm

    #6 is TC Skeat, perhaps?

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  26. Anonymous6/13/2006 11:47 pm

    10 is burgon; 9 is Bengal; 8 is Hort; 7 & 2 are Tischendorf; 6 is Skeat; 5 is Wilhelm Bousset (Religionsgeschichliche Schule); The profile of one suggests and English or Dutch scholar - unknown to me. The photo I have of Rahlfs is without beard. Sorry that's the best I can do.

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  27. Stephen C. Carlson6/14/2006 4:19 am

    Thanks for that. I've got my own list at Who are these?

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  28. P.J. Williams6/14/2006 9:33 am

    Mike Holmes is correct about #6.

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  29. P.J. Williams6/14/2006 9:42 am

    So #3 is the image that foxed people. It is, of course, the person who changed his name since #6 changed what followed his name when he resigned as FBA (Fellow of the British Academy).

    #3 published editions of primary texts in many languages. He was also notoriously anti-Semitic.

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  30. Anonymous6/14/2006 1:22 pm

    I see I need to correct myself. 5 is A. Rahlfs not W. Bousset. Who is 3? By the way Stephen's pictures are a real challenge too.

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  31. Anonymous6/14/2006 1:28 pm

    3 must be an American scholar. Is he from the Chicago area?

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  32. Anonymous6/14/2006 1:31 pm

    Is 3 Edgar Goodspeed?

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  33. Peter M. Head6/14/2006 1:45 pm

    Ah. An anti-Semitic orientalist. Syriac specialist. Quite dapper. Why should he look happier and more contented than all the other?

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  34. Peter M. Head6/14/2006 1:46 pm

    de Lagarde

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  35. Peter M. Head6/14/2006 1:49 pm

    a.k.a. Paul Bötticher


    Blogger word verification finally made a word: 'drank'. Obviously significant information. Is that why he changed his name? Or was that to do with his study of Syriac?

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  36. Peter M. Head6/14/2006 1:50 pm

    Good game Pete,

    let's do another one

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  37. Ian Hugh Clary6/14/2006 3:23 pm

    I though Michael Bird and Gie Vleugels were the same person?
    My bad.

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