Up-date on Martyrs in Turkey

I have posted a longish letter: "A letter to the Global Church from The Protestant Church of Smyrna" as an up-date to an earlier post bible-publishers-killed-in-turkey. It contains some gruesome details, some severe encouragement, and some notes for prayer.

Dan Wallace on Luke 1:34 in the Old Latin b (via Hypotyposeis)

Dan Wallace discusses Luke 1:34 in the Old Latin b over at Parchment and Pen (via Hypotyposeis). Below the post is an obituary by Wallace over Bruce Metzger posted on the 18th February.

Παράδειγμα ἐν ᾧ δύναται βοηθεῖν ἡμῖν τὰ βυζαντιακὰ χειρόγραφα

[If accented letters in the following are not clear, try FIREFOX.
I have tagged the following as Lucida Grande
to avoid IE glitches with Polytonic Greek, thank you, BillyG.
I did not see Arial Unicode MS or Palatino Linotype listed,
and Times Roman and Arial (plain)
do not usually have combined Polytonic accents.
Personally, I prefer New Athena Unicode, freely downloadable.]

Καιτοὶ φιλῶ τὴν Βατικάνην μεμβράναν [B],
ἐνιότε δεῖ ἡμᾶς ἐπανορθῶσαι αὐτὴν
τοῖς βυζαντιακοῖς χειρογράφοις.

οὔτως γε δοκεῖ μοι.

Παραδείγματος χάριν ἔχομεν-
κατὰ Λουκᾶν ιθ´ 29-30

B, א, L NesAl
... ἀπέστειλεν δύο τῶν μαθητῶν ______ λέγων Ὑπάγετε
A, W, f1, 28, 565, 700, Tisch, Byz
... ἀπέστειλεν δύο τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ εἰπών Ὑπάγετε

ἡ χαλεπωτέρα ἀνάγνωσίς ἐστιν ΑΥΤΟΥ ΕΙΠΩΝ
ὡς ἔχει τὰ βυζαντιακὰ καὶ ἔνια τῶν Καισαριακῶν χειρογράφων.
ἡ ἀνάγνωσις «είπών» χαλεπωτέρα ἐστιν ἢ «λέγων»
καὶ ἡ «δύο μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ» ἐστιν κρείσσων
ἐν τῇ Ἑβραϊκῇ ἢ ἐν τῇ Ἑλληνικῇ
ὧστε δοκεῖν με ὅτι ὁ Λουκᾶς ἔγραψε -
... ἀπέστειλεν δύο τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ εἰπών Ὑπάγετε ,

τάχα ἐρώτημα ἕν ἐστιν -
ἆρα οὕτως πράσσω «λογικὴν κρίσιν» (reasoned criticism/eclecticism)
ἢ ἐκ περισσοῦ «πρόρριζον κρίσιν» (radical criticism/eclecticism);
τί δοκεῖ ὑμῖν;

μὴ ἔχων ὧδε τὴν ἔκδοσιν τοῦ Κιλπατρικ «BFBS Καινὴ Διαθήκη ('58?)»
οὐκ οἶδα εἰ Κιλπατρικ ἀνέγνω τοῖς βυζαντιακοῖς ἐν τοῦτῳ τῷ τόπῳ.

καὶ εἰ δεξαίμεθα «εἰπών» ἐν τῷ κατὰ Λουκᾶν ιθ´ 30
ἴσως ἂν δεξαίμεθα «εἰπών» ἐν τῷ κατὰ Λουκᾶν ε´13.

κατὰ Λουκᾶν ε´13
καὶ ἐκτείνας τὴν χεῖρα ἥψατο αὐτοῦ λέγων·
θέλω, καθαρίσθητι·
καὶ εὐθέως ἡ λέπρα ἀπῆλθεν ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

[[εἰπών Α, K, M, N, U, Γ, Δ, Λ, Π, Ψ, βυζ, f1, 2, 28, 157, 565, 700, 1071, 1424, Tisch]]
[[λέγων א, B, C, D, L, W, Θ, 33, 124, 579]]

Ναί, καὶ ὧδε τὰ βυζαντιακά μοι ἀρέσκει.

Google Books

Mischa Hooker has compiled a list of books relevant to the study of Scripture within Google Books. It includes a range of books on NT textual criticism. (HT Stephen Carlson)

Up-date: A similar project by Bob Buller (and Danny Zacharias) is also found here: Free Books in Biblical Studies and Related Fields (HT: not sure, mentioned on several blogs)

The earliest mss of the Greek OT

If you go to Robert Kraft's directory here you can see a whole range of images of the earliest fragments of the Greek OT. It would be useful if someone compiled an index of the biblical texts on this page.

The Greek Bible: Later Transmission, Revision and Reception

GREEK BIBLE IN BYZANTINE JUDAISM PROJECT (AHRC)
We are pleased to announce our next project seminar, "The Greek Bible: Later Transmission, Revision and Reception," 1 May, 2007, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge.
Those who are available are most welcome to attend.
Tentative Programme
09:30-10:30 Prof. Natalio Fernández Marcos (Greek Text of the Complutensian
Polyglot)
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:00 Response to NFM's paper
12:00-12:45 Prof. W. J. van Bekkum (Greek materials for a Piyyut Dictionary)
12:45-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:15 Dr James Aitken (Jewish Reception of Greek Proverbs)
15:15-16:00 Dr Michael van der Meer (Greek Isaiah and the Papyri)
16:00-16:30 Tea
16:30-17:15 Mr Timothy Law (Lucianic Text of Reigns)