I just notice that in exactly a week's time (23.6.2008) it will be 301 years ago that John Mill died, which also fell on a Monday. This Principal of Edmund Hall, Oxford, had just lived to see his Novum Testamentum. Cum lectionibus variantibus complete in print a couple of weeks before.
Which leads to the natural question, What are your favourite dates in Textual Scholarship? [Birthdays of spouses, submission of dissertations, first job, and comparable trivia are not permitted]
A forum for people with knowledge of the Bible in its original languages to discuss its manuscripts and textual history from the perspective of historic evangelical theology.
- Contributors
- Peter M. Head (ed)
- Tommy Wasserman (ed)
- P. J. Williams, and others
Does canon criticism count?
ReplyDelete13 Dec 1545: Commencement of the Council of Trent. The time (some scholars would have us believe) Christians got together to "create" the current RC canon.
This Friday:
ReplyDeletebirthday of Bernhard Weiss
June 20th 1827