Greetings Professor Ehrmann As one of the undoubtedly leading if not one of the best Biblical scholars in the world today, you probably have seen almost every...
Please allow for a little advertisement: Bibleworks 8 is out now! I consider it the best program for work in the original languages of the Bible. I also like...
Bart: I followed your arguments concerning one trying to establish that a master text being 99.99 percent reflection of the original. I do agree with you that...
Announcing a new Swanson-style table of the variant readings of the Pericope of the Adulteress. It is different in that it includes the readings of all...
I was looking at the facsimile copy of Vaticanus yesterday. Rahlfs LXX indicates that in Deuteronomy 6:5, B-r (Vaticanus rescriptor) has DIANOIAS instead of...
Dear List, I would like to know exactly which Palestinian Syriac MS(S) that attest to the reading hO PAIS hO KURIOS IHSOUS in Luke 2:43. The reading indicated...
Check here: http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=159503126 Wasn't it sold already in 2003? Best wishes Wieland <>< ... Wieland Willker,...
JP,  Unfortunately, with the increased familiarity with the NT text came the assumed liberty to manipulate the text - sometimes at will. I'm thinking of...
Hi All: I have a quick question regarding correctors' hands and respective sigla for Codex Vaticanus. Tischendorf's editio princeps of Codex Vaticanus uses the...
Can I ask where the actual text found in the Nag Hammadi area, known as the Gospel of Thomas, is located on the Original-Initial-Archetype-Copies-etc spectrum?...
An image of MS 0187 (recto and verso) can be found here: http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~gv0/Papyri/VHP_I/003/VHP_I_3.html Good text of Mk 6:30-41. ...
It seems to me that this "initial" text concept has no historical basis but is a great apologetic concept. Any error or contradiction in the ms evidence can be...
Dr. Peter Williams (Tyndale House, Cambridge) had an interesting observation regarding the issue of the originals/autographa. He noted that what was inspired,...
There are passages in the New Testament that are difficult to reconcile with history, or just internally within the Bible. Some passages, such as when was...
Hi all,  anyone know where I can buy pdf books on NT TC online? I tried the Cambridge website, but it's so limited!!  I appreciate any help.  Fadie Hi...
New book: "The Text of the Gospels in Clement of Alexandria" by Carl P. Cosaert, SBL paperback, August 2008 http://tinyurl.com/6ps3vg Best wishes Wieland <>< ...
Pope Benedict (AKA Joseph Ratzinger) held a Tribute Mass to Pope Pius the XII yesterday 9th Oct. 2008: Ratzinger cited in his homily from Pius' writings this: ...
I've noticed a tendency in recent years to use cover-both-bases pronouns such as he/she and him/her when referring to anonymous ancient copyists of the...
Eusebius' comment that we were all direct to recently reads as follows: 6.23.2. For he dictated to more than seven amanuenses, who relieved each other at...
Hello List, I am wondering if any of you happen to know when Codex Bezae was corrected? Do Westcott and Hort make mention of this in their Introduction? Was...
If people are wondering, the newer POxy papyri (above vol. 40) are not accessible atm.: "We are currently working to rectify this problem and hope to have the...
Concerning Access to MS Images at the CSNTM (The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts): I applaud the work of the CSNTM, it is good to know that...
[Warning! This is getting off-topic. Please continue elsewhere.] Daniel, Â Rage and anarchy which result in the ARBITRARY taking of life do not constitute...
It is IMO certain that the pericope de adultera is not an original portion of John. However there is uncertainty about its early textual history. And...
Thank you, Robert Palmer. I have those texts in BibleWorks and didn't find any further references. It is a morphed expression, "cast the first stone" versus...
A strange difference in the appearance of lacunae in 060 happens in the images provided by the IGNTP project in their edition of the majuscules of the Gospel...
