I'd like to get a good sense for Byz vs Alex readings. Can someone kindly direct me toward an internet source (article perhaps) in which many Byz readings are...
I have written down my comments on David Parker's new book: "An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and their Texts" ISBN 0521719895 You can read...
Wieland, thank you for the "review." If Parker's book described the textual side but lacked the "criticism," your review certainly did not ;-). I agree with...
Eddie, You can look at my online book about analysis of New Testament textual variation here: http://purl.org/tfinney/NTText/book/ The book is nowhere near...
Tommy, I agree with you. What I wrote is not really a balanced review, but just my comments on certain points. I hope that this is clear. Even though I do not...
Ann R. Hawkins, ed., Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism and Book History Author: Chenault, L Source: Library Quarterly, 2008, vol. 78, no. 3, pp. 333-334...
... May I ask from whence you derive the one-in-a-thousand figure? I personally would not dispute the notion that extant NT mss represent but a tiny fraction...
Wieland, incidentally, one of the articles, namely "In Pursuit of a Singular Text: New Testament Textual Criticism and the Desire for the True Original ...
Hi Wieland, <<p. 286: "Acts is unique": One important aspect not mentioned in this chapter is that Acts and the Gospel of Luke are by one author and are often...
Dear James, I get the figure like this. Consider, say, the population of Greek manuscripts of the Pauline corpus (as single copies) at the year 300 AD. ...
... Well, strictly we cannot, of course. But I haven't seen any convincing demonstration that they are not by the same author. But this isn't my main point...
... Yes, that's interesting. I will try to get this article. ... This is the case in reality, yes. ... Advancement of faith by variants? I don't know. I need...
What makes a Byzantine reading Byzantine? And what makes an Alexandrian reading Alexandrian? The reason I ask is because you can find (so I'm told) a Byzantine...
... I would take a pragmatic approach: A Byzantine reading is a reading of which the majority support is Byzantine. Normally a Byzantine reading is also the...
Dear Eddie: If you had a MS of the Gospels and wanted to know which text-type it aligned with, one way would be to carefully collate the entire MS and then see...
... Alexandrian?< ... through the trouble of making a full collation, a pretty good idea of the textual character of the MS could probably be made by spot- ...
W, Another possibility ... If you rotate the zoomed-in (your "cropped") picture until it is upside down, and play with it by flipping it horizontally back and...
Daniel Buck, In that part of my response, I didn't mean that a person could discern that a MS was Byz by spot-checking any one of the passages in Terry's list;...
... I think it is: O EIPON corrected into ON EIPON (the N above is still visible and not deleted) Then the O EIPON has been deleted and the words have been...
... Interesting suggestion. Perhaps there is some edge on the papyrus? The only idea I've had is that perhaps the slash after the "Phi" is a sign for an...
Many online articles defending the Johannine Comma use a codex named "Wizanburgensis". as it's said, dated back for the 8th century. i googled it but the...
In any case, this ‘Wizanburgensis’ is not a Greek manuscript, but a Latin Vulgate manuscript. No Gregory-Aland number therefore. The (mis)information...
I wonder if anyone can help me on this. I am writing something on problems associated with NT papyri, and in one section I have argued that difficulties of...
Hello, I'm taking a class in seminary right now on the Apostolic Fathers (AF) and for my paper I want to do some text-critical work in the AF. I've done some...
Some ideas, assuming you want to work on the manuscripts: The text of 1 Clement in Codex Alexandrinus. (should be able to find a facsimile or try csntm) The...
Whilst the on-line version of the variants at http://www.laparola.net/greco/ can't be searched for "vid", I was able to go through the database to look for it....
