Hi, L. W. Hurtado says ... questions/purpose?". ... find mss- ... purposes, ... significant. ... by this ... variation ... examine ... If our collations are to...
Dear TC- List, I would appreciate any assistance with a question I have about the critical apparatus for Ex. 3:14 in _The Old Testament In Syriac According to...
I came across the following work at amazon.com (www.amazon.com): Author: Herb Jahn Title: The Aramaic New Covenant Description: "This rendering of the New...
Jean-Francois Racine has asked various questions about collating, to which I answer: 1. You can find computer programs for collating in various sources. I seem...
Hello, today I looked through one of C.P. Thiede's books about the dating of the Magdalen Mt papyrus. One can have different opinions about his dating, but he...
Hello TCers, does anybody know if there are any high quality images (*.gif; *.jpg) of NT papyri in the web? I need good colour pictures for my lectures on ...
You may have heard that Arthur Farstad died the first of the month. I think the below is accurate: He was born in 1935. Not only was Art a great and humble ...
Hello all. Could someone please tell me what the current view of the analyses of Briggs in the ICC series on the Psalms is. He uses poetic metrical forms to...
Could anyone out there provide me with bibliographic data for published facsimiles and/or transcriptions of the papyri, Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, etc. etc? I...
Dear TCers: I am needing to find information on what became known as the "editio quinta" and the "editio sexta." Origen's Hexapla had 4 Greek versions - LXX,...
As I have received a couple of inquiries about my paper on the nomina sacra, I report that I have just sent off the corrected proofs, which show a projected ...
The great Isaiah scroll (1QIsa-a) is reasonably similar to the MT. The first half of the scroll (chs. 1-32) is slightly closer to the MT than the second half....
Ah- so it was 9:2 you were interested in? Who knew? This is a good time to remember that the verse numbering is often different in the Eng. versions... and...
To all those interested: There's a new shareware that allows to read and search the text of the Bible. Several Greek, Hebrew and Latin modules are available....
NA 27 mentions the omission of "tis estin outos o uios tou anqrwpou" at the end of the verse. Of course, such an omission can be due to an homeoteleuton and is...
Dear TC'ers A little variant in an Arabic ms: "oti egw eimi" at the end of the verse is omitted. I haven't been able to find this omission in other greek or ...
Hello. I recently checked out the LXX on Dan11:30 to find that it does not mention the "ships of the Kittim" at all: it simply has "Romans", though the ...
The commentaries I have checked seem evenly divided on the variant found here (please see BHS ad loc- note b-c). I tend to favor the LXX here, but may be...
TCers -- I was just idly considering the chapter divisions in Paul -- or rather, the divisions in Vaticanus -- when something occurred to me. As most of you...
Recently I viewed a series of debates which dealt with, among other issues, the degree of textual harmony that exists between the recognized text types. One...
TC'ers--I have just received the first CD-ROM for TC review. Titled THE EVOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE: from papyri to King James, it is produced by the...
What helps did the King James translators turn to when they translated the Hebrew Bible? They said themselves in their preface that they used every available...
Re distributors for editions Cerf and GCS: I don't know if they have actual US distributors, but their volumes can be ordered from any serious academic...
Query for the group. Does anone know who ae the U.S. distributors for the series "Sources Chretiennes" (published by Editions du Cerf) and/or "Griechischen...
Here's a query for the list, though somewhat vaguely related to tc. Does anyone know of recent bibliography (last 10 years, after the most recent English edn...
In 'The Cambridge History of the Bible: From Beginnings to Jerome' the section on the OT text implies, but does not state outright, that the earliest...