As I mentioned in a prior post, my new book with Oxford University Press is now out in both the UK and US: Miniature Codices in Early Christianity. It’s part of Oxford’s long-standing Early Christian Studies series. I have been working on the subject of miniature codices for more than twenty years now, ever since doing my thesis a while ago under Larry Hurtado on the apocryphal gospel fragment, P.Oxy. 840. I have also written on the miniature codex P.Ant. 12 (0232) which contains 2 John (...| Canon Fodder
“There is no second-century manuscript evidence.” —Helmut Koester When it comes to the transmission of the New Testament text, the second century has been long recognized as a critical time period. And it is not hard to see why. If the New Testament books were written (more or less) in the first-century, then the extant […]| Canon Fodder
The brilliant British Academy memoir of Donald Russell by Christopher Pelling and Michael Winterbottom, published last week, notes, no doubt correctly, that ‘it is unlikely that any scholar has ever made such brilliant contributions to textual criticism at so advanced an age’ (p. 227). This is to make public, in grateful memory, just one such … Continue reading what happened to Hipparchus: a crux in Philostratus| Georgy Kantor's blog
Michael Kruger, president of the Charlotte campus of the Reformed Theological Seminary and preeminent scholar of early Christianity, joins us to talk about the reliability of the copies and the canon of the New Testament. The post Michael Kruger: What If Our Bibles Don’t Have the Right Words? appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
