Two Funded PhDs in NTTC with Garrick Allen

This looks like a great opportunity for someone qualified. Titles are ripe for study. See Tommy’s work on this in the Pastorals. I expect the Gospels will yield the most interesting results with Hebrews a close second. Update 1/8/21: Garrick has one more spot open for this project. See here.

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The Titles of the New Testament: A New Approach to Manuscripts and the History of Interpretation (TiNT) project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement n° 847428).

1. The project seeks to digitally edit every form of every title in every non-lectionary Greek manuscript that preserves part of the New Testament, using this data to contribute to new research related to six research questions:
2. the diachronic development of paratextual traditions (especially titles in all their forms);
3. the provenance of New Testament works in historical imagination;
4. the relationship between bibliography and canon;
5. the design, codicology, and artistic features of manuscripts;
6. scribal identities and the sociology of textual transmission; and
7. traditions of textual segmentation.

The data produced by the project will also raise new research questions and be publicly available. The objectives of the project are to rethink the critical value of manuscripts beyond the purely textual concerns of traditional textual criticism and to explore titular traditions as expressive modes of communication and as aspects of reception history.

The Principle Investigator (PI) and team members will work together to produce titular profiles for each manuscript, using this information to inform innovative research on specific research topics.

We invite applications from PhD level researchers who propose to carry out work that addresses one of the the project’s six critical questions and which focuses on manuscripts and paratextuality.

Please submit a CV, as 1–2 page PhD project proposal, a writing sample (no more than 20 pages), and 2 references as your application. Please address informal enquiries to Dr Garrick Allen (Garrick.allen [at] glasgow.ac.uk).

Funding Notes

UK students: Tuition fees and annual stipend at UKRI rate
International/EU students: Tuition fees and bursary

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The scenery in Glasgow doesn’t hurt either.

Open Theology: Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies and Theology

The latest issue of Open Theology journal is entitled “Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies and Theology” and was edited by Claire Clivaz and Garrick Allen. You can find the articles listed below online here.

• The Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies and Theology (editorial)
  Clivaz, Claire / Allen, Garrick V.Defining Digital Theology: Digital 
• Humanities, Digital Religion and the Particular Work of the CODEC Research Centre and Network
  Phillips, Peter / Schiefelbein-Guerrero, Kyle / Kurlberg, Jonas
• Embedded, not Plugged-In: Digital Humanities and Fair Participation in Systematic Theological Research
  Robinson, Matthew Ryan
• Truth Communication in Times of Digital Abundance: A Practical Theological Perspective
  Schlag, Thomas
• New Digital Tools for a New Critical Edition of the Hebrew Bible
  Yardney, Sarah / Schloen, Sandra R. / Prosser, Miller
• Digital Tools for Working with New Testament Manuscripts
  Allen, Garrick V.
• The Impact of Digital Research: Thinking about the MARK16 Project
  Clivaz, Claire
• Digital Palimpsests: Mark in Trinity College Cambridge MS. O.9.27
  Batovici, Dan
• The Bible in Arabic: Digital Resources and Future Challenges
  Schulthess, Sara
• Structural Visualization of Manuscripts (StruViMan): Principles, Methods, Prospects
  Dirkse, Saskia / Andrist, Patrick / Wallraff, Martin
• Spatial Analysis of New Testament Textual Emendations Utilizing Confusion Distances
  van Altena, Vincent / Krans, Jan / Bakker, Henk / Dukai, Balázs / Stoter, Jantien
• Presentation of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts: Bridging the Gap between Ancient Manuscripts and Modern Technology
  Ladewig, Stratton L. / Marcello, Robert D.

Titles of the New Testament Postdoc in Dublin

Dublin

Garrick Allen of Dublin City University has just received funding for a 3-year postdoc to work on a project on manuscript titles. Titles are a very interesting but often neglected part of manuscripts (for example). I bet this project will be a fun one to work on. And Dublin is a great city. I’m tempted to apply myself!

The Project 

The Titles of the New Testament: A New Approach to Manuscripts and the History of Interpretation (TiNT) project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement n° 847428). The project seeks to digitally edit every form of every title in every non-lectionary Greek manuscript that preserves part of the New Testament, using this data to contribute to new research related to six research questions: (1) the diachronic development of paratextual traditions; (2) the provenance of New Testament works; (3) the relationship between bibliography and canon; (4) the design and artistic features of manuscripts; (5) scribal identities; and (6) traditions of textual segmentation. The data produced by the project will also raise new research questions and be publicly available. The objectives of the project are to rethink the critical value of manuscripts beyond the purely textual concerns of traditional textual criticism and to explore titular traditions as expressive modes of communication and as aspects of reception history. The Principle Investigator (PI) and team members will work together to produce titular profiles for each manuscript, using this information to inform innovative research on specific research topics. 

Minimum Criteria 

Applicants should have a PhD in a discipline relevant to the project, like New Testament studies, classics, early Christianity, Byzantine studies, art history or manuscripts studies. Excellent knowledge of Koine Greek is essential, and familiarity with other relevant languages (esp. Latin) is ideal. Basic computer competence is required and familiarity and experience with digital editorial or philological tools is expected. Etc.

Closing date

1st December 2019

Make sure to read the full description as there is important info I haven’t included here.

The Future of New Testament Textual Scholarship (ed. G. V. Allen)

A new book is in the pipeline, to be published in December (or will it be available for the SBL in November?).  

The Future of New Testament Textual Scholarship: From H. C. Hoskier to the Editio Critica Maior and Beyond, edited by Garrick V. Allen (WUNT I).

Mohr-Siebeck’s description
This volume fundamentally re-examines textual approaches to the New Testament and its manuscripts in the age of digital editing and media. Using the eccentric work of Herman Charles Hoskier as a shared foundation for analysis, contributors examine the intellectual history of New Testament textual scholarship and the production of critical editions, identify many avenues for further research, and discuss the methods and protocols for producing the most recent set of editions of the New Testament: the Editio Critica Maior. Instead of comprising the minute re finement of a basically acceptable text, textual scholarship on the New Testament is a vibrant field that impinges upon New Testament Studies in unexpected and unacknowledged ways.

Contributors:
Garrick V. Allen, J. K. Elliott, Gregory Peter Fewster, Peter J. Gurry, Juan Hernández Jr., H. A. G.
Houghton, Annette Hüffmeier, Dirk Jongkind, Martin Karrer, Jennifer Wright Knust, Jan Krans, Thomas J. Kraus, Christina M. Kreinecker, Curt Niccum, D. C. Parker, Jacob Peterson, Stanley E. Porter, Catherine Smith, Jill Unkel, Klaus Wachtel, Tommy Wasserman, An-Ting Y

Approx. 540 pages
ISBN 9783161566622
cloth 145,00 €
ISBN 9783161566639
eBook PDF approx. 145,00 €

The book is the result of a wonderful conference organized by Garrick Allen (see here, here and here).