Christianity Today’s Daniel Silliman reports on the closure of the Holy Land Experience in Orlando. I’ve never been, but their Scriptorium attraction used to house the Van Kampen collection which apparently included part of the library of Eberhard Nestle. Do any of our readers know the fate of either the collection or Nestle’s library?
Gunther Zuntz observed that the New Testament and Homer are the two “paramount examples of a ‘contaminated tradition’” (Text of the Epistles, 9). This circumstance alone is reason enough for NT textual critics to take notice the article recently published by CUP (on behalf of the Classical Association): “The Composition and Transmission of the Homeric Poems: A Summary.” (If I understand the fine print correctly, it is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license. Many thanks to the author, Jerome Moran.)It is a sad day for me, given my own long-term involvement in the sport of walking, to have to report that there won’t be any more 50km walks in the Olympics. Obviously we leave it with great memories, and it is great to see the media acknowledging Jesus for his history in the event (see also the BBC report here).
I’d like to request some privacy for me and my family as I’ll be taking some time to think through my own future sporting options.
I haven’t had time to go down this rabbit hole myself, but linked here is apparently a hand-written copy of Paul’s epistles made by the famous Swiss reformer, Ulrich Zwingli. The date is 1517. Pretty cool. If you know more, please share in the comments.
Pasi Hyytiäinen has let me know that he has finished a translation of the text of Bezae in Acts into Finnish. You can find it here. I can’t say anything about the translation, of course, but I trust it’s good.
A beautiful story in Christianity Today here: "Nine Years, 782,000 Words Later, South Carolina Woman Completes Handwritten Bible."
