Zohrab NT online

I've just seen that almost all the Armenian NT by Zohrab (Zohrabean) is online here.

Thus from the comfort of your armchair you can now consult the following ancient versions:
Vulgate
Sahidic
Gothic
Armenian
Old Syriac*
Peshitta*

Any more?

*available by going to the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon, then clicking on 'Search the CAL databases', then 'Text Browse', then 'Syriac'.

Future of evangelical scholarship

As pointed out in Biblical Studies Carnival VI, Andreas Kostenberger (aliter Köstenberger) discusses the future direction of evangelical scholarship. He bemoans the way the agenda is often set by non-evangelicals, citing Ehrman’s Miquoting Jesus and Brown’s Da Vinci as examples. See here. The two books, though both popular, are in rather different categories. It doesn’t take a scholar to refute Dan Brown. But though some of Ehrman’s arguments should appear flawed to any careful reader, much of Misquoting Jesus can’t be evaluated properly by a lay person and therefore requires a scholarly response.

I agree wholeheartedly with Kostenberger that we should seek to set the agenda and not be merely reactive. But alas, the panel that my learned friend was on recently did not see textual criticism as one of the four tasks in which evangelicals most need to engage. I can’t say I’m very enthusiastic about the first three.

Last twelve verses of Mark: Original or not?

I'm informed by David Alan Black that there will be a conference entitled 'The Last Twelve Verses of Mark: Original or Not?' held at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, April 13-14, 2007.

Speakers:
Daniel Wallace
Maurice Robinson
Keith Elliott
David Black
Darrell Bock

SEBTS publicity here.

I hope proceedings will be published.

Upside down Hebrew disappears

The Continuum edition of Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus, under the title Whose Word Is It?, may now be available in an edition without any Hebrew on the cover. See here. If, as I suspect, the Continuum edition with enlarged inverted Hebrew is the earlier edition of Whose Word then it may become a collector's item. However, as I have not yet encountered either of these editions in 3D I will await news of any information from sightings.

Online database of NT mss

Click here for an online database of NT papyri and uncials. You can search to find all the mss by book, chapter, verse or location.

Von Soden online

As announced on Wieland Willker's TC list, the CSNTM has put images of all of Von Soden's edition of the Greek New Testament, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, online here.