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Wizanburgensis Revisited
Back in 2008, when a TC discussion list was still functioning much in the way the NTTC Facebook page nowadays does, I answered a question on a “Codex Wizanburgensis”, brought forward as alleged Greek...
View ArticleDid Beza make a conjecture on Luke 2:14?
At Luke 2:14, van Manen1 records a conjecture by Beza, according to which the words ἐν ἀνθρώποις εὐδοκίας are to be omitted. As I happen to know my Beza, I am almost sure he would never propose such...
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Review of Wettlaufer, No Longer Written
Readers of this blog may be aware of my interest in (New Testament) conjectural emendation. So it was a pleasure to read and review Ryan Wettlaufer’s monograph on conjectural emendation and the epistle...
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Review of Richard Simon, Critical History of the Text of the New Testament...
Readers of this blog may not be aware of my interest in French New Testament scholarship. Yet it is there, and it made me delve into Andrew Hunwick’s 2013 translation of Richard Simon’s 1697 (!)...
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Codex Fuldensis and the mulieres taceant passage
Still in Vienna after a wonderful SBL conference, I started looking into some loose ends. One of those came up after Alesja Lavrinovica’s presentation on “First Corinthians 14:33b and Its Implications...
View ArticleThe Coding Humanist: Apply Roman and Alphabetic Numbering to PDFs
No New Testament or textual criticism or both this time, just sharing some simple home-brewed javascript actions I use to make my PDF files more accessible.An important element for my PDFs is page...
View ArticleThe Numbering of Tischendorf's Editions
Tischendorf’s best known edition is his “editio octava critica maior”, his “eighth edition”, this time both “critical” and “maior”. But why is it called the eighth? It turns out Tischendorf numbered...
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Luke-Acts between Text and Margin
The latest issue of Amsterdamse Cahiers has been released, a special issue on Luke-Acts (in Dutch). Masterfully edited by Nico Riemersma. Authors include Adelbert Denaux, Huub Welzen, Albert Hogeterp,...
View ArticleSleepy Scribes and Clever Critics
Novum Testamentum 57/1 (the first issue of 2015) has just been made available. It sports an article by our team (with Bart Kamphuis as its main author), which may help you see how we approach the study...
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New Articles in the TC Journal
A late Christmas offering: three new articles in the 2014 volume of TC. A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism.First, an extended and thorough review article by Georg Gäbel. “A Fresh Look at the Early...
View Article“Sleepy Scribes and Clever Critics”: A lesson in patience
If there is one thing I have learned during my PhD years, it is one has to have patience in scholarship. In February 2011 I started my PhD in NT conjectural criticism. One of the things that struck me...
View ArticleStraatman and 1 Cor 14:33-35 at SBL Atlanta 2015
As part of our project on New Testament conjectural emendation, Karin Neutel (University of Groningen/VU University Amsterdam) will present an important paper at the SBL annual meeting in November...
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... humanum est
Checking a citation in my dissertation this morning I noticed a scribal error in one of the footnotes. Perhaps a good moment then to share the list of errata to my Beyond What Is Written (2006), in the...
View ArticleA slightly different wording
As happy owner of a first edition of Metzger's The Text of the New Testament (1964), I sometimes come across text-critical phenomena in the book itself.A few years ago, at the ETC blog, Tommy already...
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Stendahl and the End of Romans 7
While preparing a course, I came across Stendahl’s complaint (in 1963) that the Nestle editions treat Rom 7:25b as belonging to Rom 8. Which made me wonder how that looks on the page, and whether all...
View ArticleHow far can a textbook go? The case of Metzger’s Text of the New Testament
This afternoon I was reading in Leonard Whibley, ed., A Companion to Greek Studies (Cambridge: University Press, 11905), and more in particular R. C. Jebb’s contribution, “Textual Criticism,” (pp....
View ArticleSymposium and Thesis Defence
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View ArticleAmsterdam Database of New Testament Conjectural Emendation - release 2017-4
Here are the release notes for the most recent instalment of the Amsterdam Database.GeneralCompared to the previous release (2017–3), 125 conjecture records were added (cj16303 to cj16427), together...
View ArticleAmsterdam Database of New Testament Conjectural Emendation – release 2018-1
Here are the release notes for the most recent instalment of the Amsterdam Database.GeneralCompared to the previous release (2017-4), 36 conjecture records were added (cj16428 to cj16463), together...
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The Amsterdam Database (again)
My two previous posts concerned release notes for instalments of the The Amsterdam Database of New Testament Conjectural Emendation (2017-4 and 2018-1). You can henceforth find all release notes on the...
View ArticleRobertus Stephanus’ Greek New Testament editions online
The famous printer Robertus Stephanus (Robert Estienne) published four editions of the Greek New Testament. All of these can be found online, though quality and access differs. The list below is not...
View ArticleAmsterdam Database: editorial alternatives marked as “Diacritics”
The Amsterdam Database of New Testament Conjectural Emendation contains more than just conjectures. So-called “Editorial alternatives” are recorded as well. The Nestle editions include (included)...
View ArticleRelease notes Amsterdam Database of New Testament Conjectural Emendation,...
[Note: since I cannot update the release notes page at https://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/nt-conjectures-release the notes for the fresh instalment are temporarily provided here.]26. 2 January 2023...
View ArticleAmsterdam Database: Conjectures with Attestation
The question was asked whether the Amsterdam Database of New Testament Conjectural Emendation contains “confirmed” conjectures, that is, conjectures for which later attestion has been identified. The...
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