Textual Criticism

Nov
14

Copying the Pericope Adulterae from Codex Washingtonianus

After Bezae, Sinaticus, and Vaticanus, I was feeling pretty confident. Then I met Washingtonianius. This was a comparatively more difficult
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Nov
10

Copying the Pericope Adulterae from Codex Vaticanus

Continuing through the "Big Ones". * Paper: 4.5" by 7" Moleskin journal * Pen: Pilot G2 0.
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Oct
24

Copying the Pericope Adulterae from Codex Bezae

I've started exploring the Pericope Adulterae and part of the process was hand-copying the the text from Code
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Sep
03

NIV New Testament Variant Footnotes

Last fall, the Presbyterian's youth director asked me to do a workshop for his high school students introducing
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Sep
03

Unicode Sigla for the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia

Nobody is going to be surprised that text criticism is my favorite subject in the world. As we’ve been
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Nov
14

Should We Back Off The Papyri?

Though a series of events I won’t get into here, I was reading Stan Porter’s paper, Why so
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Nov
01

Wallace: There Are 1,838 Differences Between Textus Receptus and the Majority Text

When I introduce New Testament transmission history and textual criticism, it is amazing to me that there will always be
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Oct
23

All the Manuscripts!

You guys, you guys, you guys, YOU GUYS! Check this out: Scribes of the Cairo Geniza I get embarrassingly giddy
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Sep
27

Fun Additions from the Dead Sea Scroll

Sitting in on a class exploring the Septuagint (usually abbreviated with the Roman numerals LXX), which is basically exploring the
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Sep
04

Why Don't We Care About the Text of Old Testament

One of the project I can’t wait to dive into is textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible. Right now,
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