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New Marginalia to Minuscule 69
The 5th of March, 2013, the participants of the Eighth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament visited the Leicester Record Office in order to take a look at the famous...
View ArticleThe Case of the Extra Verse in John 1
The verse numbering of John 1 may differ according to the edition one uses. The description of the problem is straightforward: in a number of older editions, the current verse 38 is divided over two...
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... is in the details
Recently I took a closer look at the title pages of Tischendorf’s seventh and eighth major Greek New Testament edition. As often, the small differences are the most interesting. To name just one: in...
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Abbreviations in Greek minuscule manuscripts
In a 1735 book I found a nice page with a listing of abbreviations in Greek manuscripts. The book is Johannes Alberti, Glossarium Graecum in sacros Novi Foederis libros. Ex MSS. primus edidit, notisque...
View ArticleSatan in the Latin Freer Logion
Anyone interested in the textual criticism of the New Testament knows about the so-called Freer Logion. This is a passage found in only one known New Testament manuscript, Codex Washingtonianus (ca....
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The Turning Point for Mark 16:9-20
This year’s December edition of Schrift, which has just been released, is entirely devoted to the Gospel of Mark. The one article they offer as a free download, entitled “Hoe ‘Want ze waren bang’ het...
View ArticleSBL International Meeting 2014 in Vienna Call for Papers (Closing February 5th)
Are you interested in Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Greek New Testament and other Jewish and/or Christian literature from Antiquity? Why then not submit a paper to the Section "Working with...
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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...
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