... his blog ... variants ... The first time I read Metzger's commentary I thought it strange that the comments were along the lines of "this is what happened"...
... of 150 CE in our critical editions. The text of P66/P75/B is basically NA-27. >> This is saying too much, I'm afraid. NA-27 is notorious for promulgating...
... Ok, I was exaggerating. We have no full proof for that. But I would maintain that we have basically a text of the Gospel of John that existed around 150 CE...
Earlier, I mentioned Dr. Fee's interesting interpretation of Bengel's first principle (proclivi scriptioni praestat ardua--"before the easy reading, stands the...
Can textual criticism solve the Synoptic Problem?Dr. Fee writes, "…when one works with [harmonistic] variations over many, many instances, and in many...
Dr. Fee says that scribes could disharmonize passages--intentionally or otherwise ("Modern Textual Criticism and the Synoptic Problem: On the Problem of...
My site http://www.laparola.net/greco/ has been mentioned in this group before, but I wanted to say that there are now variant readings for all the books of...
... Arguably, however, Metzger has more reason for certainty than Ehrman, since he holds that some of our main witnesses (e.g. Aleph and B) stray less often...
... TC is now more broadly defined and does not focus solely on the original text. For TC that does focus on the original I would modify your wording to say...
In Streeter's The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins, the issue of the minor agreements of Matt and Luke against Mark is discussed. He attempts to deal with...
Wieland and Jim West recently provided some useful information on Hebrew Bible texts derived from the Aleppo codex. Here's some additional information on...
Martin Hengel protests against the direction which some are tacking tc, breaking down disciplinary borders:>>> >"Here no sufficiently clear distinction is made...
Since we're talking about theological German, I thought I'd ask whether agrapha refers only to the non-canonical sayings attributed to Christ, or to...
The sixth chapter of "Misquoting Jesus" (the partly-new book by Dr. Bart Ehrman) focuses on ten variants which the author claims are doctrinally motivated...
I suckered myself into buying the book, deluded into thinking it was fodder for further scholarly reflection. After reading a few pages, I saw it for what it...
I'd suggest you look at the full discussion in my book Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, which was written for scholars, rather than the brief overview in...
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Never judge a book by its ... first few pages. There's actually a lot of historical (as well as textual, of course) information in the book -- Richard Simon,...
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I was deeply captivated by Orthodox Corruption, obviously an important book, especially since we are so desperate to determine the legitimacy of the biblical...
Codex Bezae. That's the entire Greek support for the reading "orgistheis" (angry) in Mark 1:41. Yet Dr. Bart Ehrman continues to press for its adoption. The...
... Willker" ... of the ... happened" ... I would have thought tendentious theological activity would be more clearly able to be perceived in...
Regarding TNIV, we should note that R.T. France is on the Committee for Bible Translation (CBT), and that his recent commentary on Mark might shed some light...
... I have never understood why such odd readings from manuscripts like D and k are adopted by some critics, when so many of the other readings in these ...
I think you make a good point. But on what grounds can we decide that D is a bad manuscript, if not the internal evaluation of its readings (in comparsion...
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Bart Ehrman wrote: I think you make a good point. But on what grounds can we decide that D is a bad manuscript, if not the internal evaluation of its readings ...
If I may weigh in here: I think Bart makes some excellent points about Mark 1.41. I don't recall if he cited the doctoral dissertationn done at Baylor,...
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Thanks for this. The question is always, which noses to count and how to count them. I have an excursus on the Western non-interpolations in Orthodox ...
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I have received the following private mail, of which I have removed the ... In his catalog, Smith says that the writing on the f.1.r is: 1. M. Madiotes...
In his unfortunately brief review of Orthodox Corruption, Dr. Fee mentions all so briefly the issue of Dr. Ehrman's certainties: "While Ehrman will have...
Dan, I'm glad for the (almost) support. But in my view, if an angry Jesus is the *same* as a compassionate Jesus, there's little reason to do text criticism...
