We will have a magnificent array of papers for our program unit "Working with Biblical Manuscripts," at the SBL International Meeting in London, to be held at King's College in London, 4-8 July 2011.
There will be at least three sessions loaded with papers on textual criticism, and at least one focused on the Hebrew Bible (including versions).
The call for papers closes today, 31 January. So hurry up, make your submission at the SBL-site!
Update: We will have twenty papers divided into four sessions, two on each testament. (Still waiting for Peter's paper though.)
Monday, January 31, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Codex Sinaiticus on Air, "The Beauty of Old Books" (BBC 4)
A new BBC series, "The Beauty of Old Books" will take a look at the appeal and importance of books in history.
The first episode of four half hour programmes is to be broadcast on BBC Four on Monday 7 February,featuring Codex Sinaiticus and the Winchester Bible (12 cent.).
Other episodes will feature works such as the Luttrell Psalter, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.
Previously, BBC has broadcasted a series on old maps, "The Beauty of Maps." If you are in Britain you can watch this series on the BBC iPlayer (for a few more days).
I should also add in this connection that the new Hendrickson's facimile edition of Codex Sinaiticus is now being shipped out (I hope to get it soon).
The first episode of four half hour programmes is to be broadcast on BBC Four on Monday 7 February,featuring Codex Sinaiticus and the Winchester Bible (12 cent.).
Other episodes will feature works such as the Luttrell Psalter, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.
Previously, BBC has broadcasted a series on old maps, "The Beauty of Maps." If you are in Britain you can watch this series on the BBC iPlayer (for a few more days).
I should also add in this connection that the new Hendrickson's facimile edition of Codex Sinaiticus is now being shipped out (I hope to get it soon).
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
L2451: A New Early Lectionary Palimpsest
Wieland Willker has recently posted an extensive description including images (2,5MB) of an early fragmentary lectionary (8th cent.) found in his hometown Bremen, which ETC-blogger Dirk Jongkind had drawn his attention to – life is full of surprises.
The MS was first described by Klaus Alpers, of Hamburg: "Ein Handschriftenfund zum Cyrill-Glossar in der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen" in Lexicographica Byzantina: Beiträge zum Symposion zur byzantinischen Lexikographie (Wien, 1.-4.3.1989), Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1991), 11-52.
The lectionary, Codex Bremensis Manuscripta c. 11, contains the following texts: John 18:18-28; Mark 1:2-3, 5, 7-8; and John 20:4-15. It has recently been assigned a Gregory-Aland number by the INTF, L2451.
So, look around in your own town, there may be some old Greek New Testament MS around somewhere, unknown to the text-critical world.
And, I wonder how Dirk found out about it? Did he stumble upon Alpers' description?
The MS was first described by Klaus Alpers, of Hamburg: "Ein Handschriftenfund zum Cyrill-Glossar in der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen" in Lexicographica Byzantina: Beiträge zum Symposion zur byzantinischen Lexikographie (Wien, 1.-4.3.1989), Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1991), 11-52.
The lectionary, Codex Bremensis Manuscripta c. 11, contains the following texts: John 18:18-28; Mark 1:2-3, 5, 7-8; and John 20:4-15. It has recently been assigned a Gregory-Aland number by the INTF, L2451.
So, look around in your own town, there may be some old Greek New Testament MS around somewhere, unknown to the text-critical world.
And, I wonder how Dirk found out about it? Did he stumble upon Alpers' description?
Monday, January 24, 2011
Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 47 (2010)
The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 47 (2010) has been published. It contains an obituary for Traianos Gagos by Peter van Minnen, and several interesting articles, e.g.,:
"A New Fragment of LXX Isaiah 23 (Rahlfs-Fraenkel 844)" by AnneMarie Luijendijk,
"The Interchange of ι and η in Spelling Χριστ-in Documentary Papyri" by Walter Shandruk
... and reviews:
Guglielmo Cavallo and Herwig Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands reviewed by Gabriella Messeri
Peter Arzt-Grabner, Ruth Elisabeth Kritzer, Amphilochios Papathomas, and Franz Winter, 1. Korinther reviewed by John S. Kloppenborg
David C. Parker, An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and Their Texts reviewed by AnneMarie Luijendijk
T.J. Kraus, M.J. Kruger, and T. Nicklas, Gospel Fragments reviewed by Scott Charlesworth
Roger S. Bagnall, Early Christian Books in Egypt reviewed by Lincoln Blumell
AnneMarie Luijendijk, Greetings in the Lord: Early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri reviewed by Malcolm Choat
(HT: Papy-L).
"A New Fragment of LXX Isaiah 23 (Rahlfs-Fraenkel 844)" by AnneMarie Luijendijk,
"The Interchange of ι and η in Spelling Χριστ-in Documentary Papyri" by Walter Shandruk
... and reviews:
Guglielmo Cavallo and Herwig Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands reviewed by Gabriella Messeri
Peter Arzt-Grabner, Ruth Elisabeth Kritzer, Amphilochios Papathomas, and Franz Winter, 1. Korinther reviewed by John S. Kloppenborg
David C. Parker, An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and Their Texts reviewed by AnneMarie Luijendijk
T.J. Kraus, M.J. Kruger, and T. Nicklas, Gospel Fragments reviewed by Scott Charlesworth
Roger S. Bagnall, Early Christian Books in Egypt reviewed by Lincoln Blumell
AnneMarie Luijendijk, Greetings in the Lord: Early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri reviewed by Malcolm Choat
(HT: Papy-L).
Thursday, January 20, 2011
The Ehrman Project
Is the Bible historically reliable?
Did scribes doctor the MSS?
How do we explain the Bible’s 400.000 errors?
Why did certain texts make it into the canon
Why does a “loving God” permit evil in our world?
What answer does the Bible give for the problem of evil?
Who wrote the gospels?
Couldn’t it all have been a conspiracy?
What is inerrancy?
These questions are not new, but in his scholarship Bart Ehrman has raised them again in an engaging way. A new website has recently been launched which seek to provide responses to Ehrman’s provocative conclusions from a conservative and apologetic standpoint EhrmanProject.com.
The website features several videoclips by Alvin Plantinga, D. A. Carson, Ed Gravely, Michael Kruger, Darell Bock, Ben Witherington and Daniel Wallace. I haven’t looked at them yet.
HT: Dustin Smith
Did scribes doctor the MSS?
How do we explain the Bible’s 400.000 errors?
Why did certain texts make it into the canon
Why does a “loving God” permit evil in our world?
What answer does the Bible give for the problem of evil?
Who wrote the gospels?
Couldn’t it all have been a conspiracy?
What is inerrancy?
These questions are not new, but in his scholarship Bart Ehrman has raised them again in an engaging way. A new website has recently been launched which seek to provide responses to Ehrman’s provocative conclusions from a conservative and apologetic standpoint EhrmanProject.com.
The website features several videoclips by Alvin Plantinga, D. A. Carson, Ed Gravely, Michael Kruger, Darell Bock, Ben Witherington and Daniel Wallace. I haven’t looked at them yet.
HT: Dustin Smith
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
How to Avoid Boring Your Audience with Dry Data
Can we as text-critics (and teachers), often working with dry data, learn something from this Swedish professor Hans Rosling? If nothing else, we could get some inspiration for our conference presentations.
That was the best presentation of stats I have ever seen. Want to see more? Here is a more conventional talk, using the same software (and entusiasm):
That was the best presentation of stats I have ever seen. Want to see more? Here is a more conventional talk, using the same software (and entusiasm):
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