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The Text of the Gospels, 2023
A brief study of the major textual variant in Matthew 27:49 and the motivations which were likely... more A brief study of the major textual variant in Matthew 27:49 and the motivations which were likely to elicit this interpolation.
thetextofthegospels.com, 2023
James Snapp investigates the evidence for and against the genuineness of John 5:3b-4 and conclude... more James Snapp investigates the evidence for and against the genuineness of John 5:3b-4 and concluded that the diverse treatments of the passage descend from an anomalous feature of the autograph.
thetextofthegospels, 2020
A review of Greek manuscripts of First John with and without the "Johannine Comma," with some int... more A review of Greek manuscripts of First John with and without the "Johannine Comma," with some interaction with the claims of advocates for the genuineness of this interpolation. Includes embedded links.
Codex Vaticanus: From Where?, 2022
What is the provenance of Codex Vaticanus? Some internal features in the manuscript provide some... more What is the provenance of Codex Vaticanus? Some internal features in the manuscript provide some indications, and they are briefly investigated.
Family Π in John 7 39, 2022
A brief study of the treatment of the text of John 7:39 in modern translations and in ancient man... more A brief study of the treatment of the text of John 7:39 in modern translations and in ancient manuscripts and transmission-lines. The transmission-line in Family Π seems to have preserved the original text better than all other transmission-lines.
www.thetextofthegospels.com, 2021
Palladius of Ratiaria: ever hear of him? Probably not: his name does not appear among the Latin C... more Palladius of Ratiaria: ever hear of him? Probably not: his name does not appear among the Latin Church Fathers cited in the 4 th edition of the UBS Greek New Testament. There was a man named Palladius who preached the gospel in Ireland in the early 400s, before Saint Patrick-but Palladius of Ratiaria, in about the same period (late 300s-early 400s) was in a far different region, where Bulgaria is today.
Amazon, 2017
A defense of the genuineness of John 7:53-8:11, with an explanation of the mechanism that elicite... more A defense of the genuineness of John 7:53-8:11, with an explanation of the mechanism that elicited its early loss, a description of many of the witnesses for inclusion and non-inclusion of the passage, and a special chapter on the Old Latin chapter-summaries.
Cambridge Univ Press, 1894
J. Rendel Harris' 1984 lecture on the Old Syriac text of Acts - reformatted to augment online leg... more J. Rendel Harris' 1984 lecture on the Old Syriac text of Acts - reformatted to augment online legibility and reproduction. (One of Harris' Four Lectures on the Western Text.) Reformatted in 2020.
www.thetextofthegospels.com, 2019
A transcript, with some adjustments (including many embedded links), of Hort's six lectures on an... more A transcript, with some adjustments (including many embedded links), of Hort's six lectures on anteNicene patristic writers, delivered in 1890.
A detailed review of Wasserman and Knust's 2019 book about the pericope adulterae (John 7:53-8:11... more A detailed review of Wasserman and Knust's 2019 book about the pericope adulterae (John 7:53-8:11). With embedded links.
The Text of the Gospels, 2016
These five essays contain an abundance of data and analysis about the Comma Johanneum -- a thorou... more These five essays contain an abundance of data and analysis about the Comma Johanneum -- a thorough review of patristic evidence, manuscript evidence, and grammar-based evidence. The position advocated here is that the Comma Johanneum originated as an interpretive comment in an Old Latin transmission-line.
The Text of the Gospels, 2016
Reports of the presentations at the 2014 Symposium on the Pericope Adulterae at SEBTS, with added... more Reports of the presentations at the 2014 Symposium on the Pericope Adulterae at SEBTS, with added thoughts and observations, plus an appendix on some Old Latin evidence which was mentioned at the symposium.
How To Read a Greek Gospels Manuscript, 2019
A tutorial on how to read a manuscript of the Gospels, focusing on extra-textual features and the... more A tutorial on how to read a manuscript of the Gospels, focusing on extra-textual features and their significance.
Minuscule 9 is used as an example.
Conflations: What They Are and What They Mean, 2019
An introduction to conflations in the texts of New Testament documents - focusing upon, and chall... more An introduction to conflations in the texts of New Testament documents - focusing upon, and challenging, Hort's proposals that conflations in Byzantine MSS' texts imply that the Byzantine Text is derivative of the Alexandrian and Western text-types.
Codex Sinaiticus and the Byzantine Text of the Gospels: Same Message?, 2019
A comparison of 280 meaningful (i.e., translation-impacting) differences between the text of Code... more A comparison of 280 meaningful (i.e., translation-impacting) differences between the text of Codex Sinaiticus and the Byzantine Text: 60 in Matthew, 60 in Mark, 60 in Luke, and 100 in John.
Contrary to common assumptions about the nature of the Western Text as a text-form characterized ... more Contrary to common assumptions about the nature of the Western Text as a text-form characterized by expansions, a detailed examination of the text of Mark 1-4 reveals that the text also contains many readings shorter than their Alexandrian and Byzantine rivals.
The Text of the Gospels, 2019
A description of GA 2814, the manuscript used by Erasmus in his initial preparation of the Greek ... more A description of GA 2814, the manuscript used by Erasmus in his initial preparation of the Greek New Testament. The description covers the Greek commentary of Andreas of Caesarea which is found interspersed with the text of Revelation, and the unusual readings introduced by Erasmus in Revelation 22:16-21. (With many embedded links to supplemental materials.)
A comparison of the text of John 15:1--10 in Codex D and in minuscule 2397 (the Hyacinthus Gospel... more A comparison of the text of John 15:1--10 in Codex D and in minuscule 2397 (the Hyacinthus Gospels) shows that the medieval text was copied with much greater skill in the Byzantine transmission-line than in the Greek Western transmission-line.
A detailed report of events leading up to the history of Papyrus 137, previously known as "First-... more A detailed report of events leading up to the history of Papyrus 137, previously known as "First-century Mark." This report, with many links to additional resources, documents various statements and developments involving persons such as Dan Wallace, Dirk Obbink, Scott Carroll, and Josh McDowell, beginning in the early 2000s and continuing up to the publication of the papyrus. (8 pages)
Textual critic F. H. A. Scrivener, in 1858, included this essay as a chapter in his book A Full T... more Textual critic F. H. A. Scrivener, in 1858, included this essay as a chapter in his book A Full Transcript of Codex Augiensis. Scrivener offers a strong case for the use of evidence from minuscules, opposing the efforts by some contemporary scholars, especially Tregelles , to focus almost exclusively on the evidence from early uncial MSS.
The Text of the Gospels, 2023
A brief study of the major textual variant in Matthew 27:49 and the motivations which were likely... more A brief study of the major textual variant in Matthew 27:49 and the motivations which were likely to elicit this interpolation.
thetextofthegospels.com, 2023
James Snapp investigates the evidence for and against the genuineness of John 5:3b-4 and conclude... more James Snapp investigates the evidence for and against the genuineness of John 5:3b-4 and concluded that the diverse treatments of the passage descend from an anomalous feature of the autograph.
thetextofthegospels, 2020
A review of Greek manuscripts of First John with and without the "Johannine Comma," with some int... more A review of Greek manuscripts of First John with and without the "Johannine Comma," with some interaction with the claims of advocates for the genuineness of this interpolation. Includes embedded links.
Codex Vaticanus: From Where?, 2022
What is the provenance of Codex Vaticanus? Some internal features in the manuscript provide some... more What is the provenance of Codex Vaticanus? Some internal features in the manuscript provide some indications, and they are briefly investigated.
Family Π in John 7 39, 2022
A brief study of the treatment of the text of John 7:39 in modern translations and in ancient man... more A brief study of the treatment of the text of John 7:39 in modern translations and in ancient manuscripts and transmission-lines. The transmission-line in Family Π seems to have preserved the original text better than all other transmission-lines.
www.thetextofthegospels.com, 2021
Palladius of Ratiaria: ever hear of him? Probably not: his name does not appear among the Latin C... more Palladius of Ratiaria: ever hear of him? Probably not: his name does not appear among the Latin Church Fathers cited in the 4 th edition of the UBS Greek New Testament. There was a man named Palladius who preached the gospel in Ireland in the early 400s, before Saint Patrick-but Palladius of Ratiaria, in about the same period (late 300s-early 400s) was in a far different region, where Bulgaria is today.
Amazon, 2017
A defense of the genuineness of John 7:53-8:11, with an explanation of the mechanism that elicite... more A defense of the genuineness of John 7:53-8:11, with an explanation of the mechanism that elicited its early loss, a description of many of the witnesses for inclusion and non-inclusion of the passage, and a special chapter on the Old Latin chapter-summaries.
Cambridge Univ Press, 1894
J. Rendel Harris' 1984 lecture on the Old Syriac text of Acts - reformatted to augment online leg... more J. Rendel Harris' 1984 lecture on the Old Syriac text of Acts - reformatted to augment online legibility and reproduction. (One of Harris' Four Lectures on the Western Text.) Reformatted in 2020.
www.thetextofthegospels.com, 2019
A transcript, with some adjustments (including many embedded links), of Hort's six lectures on an... more A transcript, with some adjustments (including many embedded links), of Hort's six lectures on anteNicene patristic writers, delivered in 1890.
A detailed review of Wasserman and Knust's 2019 book about the pericope adulterae (John 7:53-8:11... more A detailed review of Wasserman and Knust's 2019 book about the pericope adulterae (John 7:53-8:11). With embedded links.
The Text of the Gospels, 2016
These five essays contain an abundance of data and analysis about the Comma Johanneum -- a thorou... more These five essays contain an abundance of data and analysis about the Comma Johanneum -- a thorough review of patristic evidence, manuscript evidence, and grammar-based evidence. The position advocated here is that the Comma Johanneum originated as an interpretive comment in an Old Latin transmission-line.
The Text of the Gospels, 2016
Reports of the presentations at the 2014 Symposium on the Pericope Adulterae at SEBTS, with added... more Reports of the presentations at the 2014 Symposium on the Pericope Adulterae at SEBTS, with added thoughts and observations, plus an appendix on some Old Latin evidence which was mentioned at the symposium.
How To Read a Greek Gospels Manuscript, 2019
A tutorial on how to read a manuscript of the Gospels, focusing on extra-textual features and the... more A tutorial on how to read a manuscript of the Gospels, focusing on extra-textual features and their significance.
Minuscule 9 is used as an example.
Conflations: What They Are and What They Mean, 2019
An introduction to conflations in the texts of New Testament documents - focusing upon, and chall... more An introduction to conflations in the texts of New Testament documents - focusing upon, and challenging, Hort's proposals that conflations in Byzantine MSS' texts imply that the Byzantine Text is derivative of the Alexandrian and Western text-types.
Codex Sinaiticus and the Byzantine Text of the Gospels: Same Message?, 2019
A comparison of 280 meaningful (i.e., translation-impacting) differences between the text of Code... more A comparison of 280 meaningful (i.e., translation-impacting) differences between the text of Codex Sinaiticus and the Byzantine Text: 60 in Matthew, 60 in Mark, 60 in Luke, and 100 in John.
Contrary to common assumptions about the nature of the Western Text as a text-form characterized ... more Contrary to common assumptions about the nature of the Western Text as a text-form characterized by expansions, a detailed examination of the text of Mark 1-4 reveals that the text also contains many readings shorter than their Alexandrian and Byzantine rivals.
The Text of the Gospels, 2019
A description of GA 2814, the manuscript used by Erasmus in his initial preparation of the Greek ... more A description of GA 2814, the manuscript used by Erasmus in his initial preparation of the Greek New Testament. The description covers the Greek commentary of Andreas of Caesarea which is found interspersed with the text of Revelation, and the unusual readings introduced by Erasmus in Revelation 22:16-21. (With many embedded links to supplemental materials.)
A comparison of the text of John 15:1--10 in Codex D and in minuscule 2397 (the Hyacinthus Gospel... more A comparison of the text of John 15:1--10 in Codex D and in minuscule 2397 (the Hyacinthus Gospels) shows that the medieval text was copied with much greater skill in the Byzantine transmission-line than in the Greek Western transmission-line.
A detailed report of events leading up to the history of Papyrus 137, previously known as "First-... more A detailed report of events leading up to the history of Papyrus 137, previously known as "First-century Mark." This report, with many links to additional resources, documents various statements and developments involving persons such as Dan Wallace, Dirk Obbink, Scott Carroll, and Josh McDowell, beginning in the early 2000s and continuing up to the publication of the papyrus. (8 pages)
Textual critic F. H. A. Scrivener, in 1858, included this essay as a chapter in his book A Full T... more Textual critic F. H. A. Scrivener, in 1858, included this essay as a chapter in his book A Full Transcript of Codex Augiensis. Scrivener offers a strong case for the use of evidence from minuscules, opposing the efforts by some contemporary scholars, especially Tregelles , to focus almost exclusively on the evidence from early uncial MSS.
A reconstruction of the Greek text of the Gospel of Mark, in an uncial font, with apparatus-like ... more A reconstruction of the Greek text of the Gospel of Mark, in an uncial font, with apparatus-like notes
A description of two uncial Gospels-manuscripts from the 400s/500s embedded in the underwriting o... more A description of two uncial Gospels-manuscripts from the 400s/500s embedded in the underwriting of a palimpsest which contains Isidore's Etymologies in the upper writing (from the 700s).
This includes a full two-way index to facilitate comparisons of the online digital images of the texts with Tischendorf's transcripts of them.
www.thetextofthegospels.com, 2020
A chapter by chapter review of Myths & Mistakes, dealing with some common misconceptions about su... more A chapter by chapter review of Myths & Mistakes, dealing with some common misconceptions about subjects relevant to New Testament textual criticism.
http://thetextofthegospels.com, 2020
A review of Wayne A Mitchell's book Scribal Scribes.
www.thetextofthegospels.com, 2020
Links to digitized New Testament manuscripts at the British Library online, listed by GA-numbers.