Over at Earliest Christianity, Tim Henderson summarizes the essay by Michael Holmes, "Text and Transmission in the Second Century” recently published in The Reliability of the New Testament: Bart Ehrman and Daniel Wallace in Dialogue which we have blogged about here.
For a description of Tim Henderson's upcoming monograph – the published version of his dissertation on the Gospel of Peter to be published my Mohr Siebeck – see his own "shameless promotion".
Monday, March 07, 2011
New ETC Blogger: John Meade
The ETC blog team proudly presents a new blog team member: John Meade
Meade is a candidate for the PhD (ABD) at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky in the department of Old Testament. His dissertation is “A Critical Edition of the Fragments of Origen’s Hexapla of Job: 22-42,” which is also being compiled for the Hexapla Institute, of which he is a part (www.hexapla.org).
He has many interests in the area of biblical textual criticism including Hebrew Bible, LXX, Hexapla, NT, and the study of the ancient versions for their interpretation of the text.
The ETC team is particularly happy to strengthen its competency in the field of Septuagint studies, and we look forward to many interesting blogposts by John.
Welcome!
Friday, March 04, 2011
Greek Manuscripts at Princeton
Recently I came across a review which alerted me to the existence of of S. Kotzabassi & N.P. Sevcenko, Greek Manuscripts at Princeton, Sixth to Nineteenth Century: A Descriptive Catalogue (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010).
There is a fair bit of information at the publisher's website (here), which suggests that around 25 of the 64 manuscripts presented are NT manuscripts. In fact the sample catalogue entry is for minuscule 1357, with a very full description and many colour photos.
And Tommy has managed to procure a review copy (for himself, not to share) and so we shall soon have a very thorough critical review of the entire volume (in great detail).
There is a fair bit of information at the publisher's website (here), which suggests that around 25 of the 64 manuscripts presented are NT manuscripts. In fact the sample catalogue entry is for minuscule 1357, with a very full description and many colour photos.
And Tommy has managed to procure a review copy (for himself, not to share) and so we shall soon have a very thorough critical review of the entire volume (in great detail).
Thursday, March 03, 2011
Textual Criticism and the Synoptic Problem
The book New Studies in the Synoptic Problem. Oxford Conference, April 2008. Essays in Honour of Christopher M. Tuckett (eds P. Foster; A. Gregory; J.S. Kloppenborg & J. Verheyden; BETL 239; Leuven: Peeters, 2011) has now been published (at Euro 85 for a 961 page book which is not bad IMO). (For an earlier post on the conference see here, and also Dan Batovici's article ‘The Oxford Conference on the Synoptic Problem’ Currents in Biblical Research 7.2 (2009) 245-71 which is helpfully online).
My chapter, on 'Textual Criticism and the Synoptic Problem', can be found here. Other chapters of direct relevance to TC include Judy Lieu on 'Marcion and the Synoptic Problem' and Scott Brown on 'The Secret Gospel of Mark and the Synoptic Problem'. But all of them are interesting if you are interested in the Synoptic Problem (and who wouldn't be!).
My chapter, on 'Textual Criticism and the Synoptic Problem', can be found here. Other chapters of direct relevance to TC include Judy Lieu on 'Marcion and the Synoptic Problem' and Scott Brown on 'The Secret Gospel of Mark and the Synoptic Problem'. But all of them are interesting if you are interested in the Synoptic Problem (and who wouldn't be!).
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Political PhD Plagiarism Problems
Copying things is a contemporary as well as an antiquarian issue.
The German aristocrat, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (a.k.a. Baron Cut-and-Paste), until recently the German Defence Minister, has resigned amidst revelations that he copied half of his PhD thesis (2006) (BBC report; for the data see here and also here).
Another aristocrat, Saif Al-Islam Alqadhafi (son of Col. Gaddafi of Libya), may also have some trouble with his LSE PhD (Independent; for the PhD see here). His topic? Ironically enough it was "The Role of Civil Society in the Democratisation of Global Governance Institutions: From ‘Soft Power’ to Collective Decision-Making?" Not too much collective decision-making in Libya at the moment it seems. (LSE is also in trouble for accepting £1.5 million after his PhD was passed.)
The German aristocrat, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (a.k.a. Baron Cut-and-Paste), until recently the German Defence Minister, has resigned amidst revelations that he copied half of his PhD thesis (2006) (BBC report; for the data see here and also here).
Another aristocrat, Saif Al-Islam Alqadhafi (son of Col. Gaddafi of Libya), may also have some trouble with his LSE PhD (Independent; for the PhD see here). His topic? Ironically enough it was "The Role of Civil Society in the Democratisation of Global Governance Institutions: From ‘Soft Power’ to Collective Decision-Making?" Not too much collective decision-making in Libya at the moment it seems. (LSE is also in trouble for accepting £1.5 million after his PhD was passed.)
Finally Sinaiticus Arrives in Sweden
Finally, two monhts after Christmas, Codex Sinaiticus arrives to Örebro School of Theology.Thanks to Maria Brolin for capturing the moment.
I preordered this beautiful facsmile copy at the SBL meeting in Atlanta, and it eventually costed £250 including shipping (and I can tell you it's heavy!), Parker's new book about the codex and a fine print of one of the folios – a very good bargain I think. However, it doesn't beat my Vaticanus facsimile (1968 color edition) bargain, which I got in trade for a Swedish study bible in five volumes, which in turn I had bought at a second hand bookstore for 300SEK (=$46).
More about the Sinaiticus facsimile here and here.
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