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B. H. Streeter’s Four Gospels at One Hundred


How does the Oxford don’s influential argument for ‘local texts’ of the Gospels hold up after 100 years?

Peter R. Rodgers

December 10, 2024

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Illustration by Peter Gurry. Text from Cambridge Taylor-Schechter 12.182

The First Parallel Bible


Origen’s six-columned Old Testament, produced in the second century, was a monumental achievement in the Bible’s history.

John D. Meade

August 20, 2024

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Facsimile photo of Codex Vaticanus by Chandler Nick

The Changing Fortunes of Codex Vaticanus


Today, Codex Vaticanus is treated as a premier biblical manuscript. It was not always so.

An-Ting Yi

August 6, 2024

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A list of seventy different ways of writing the Greek letter epsilon in minuscule script. Source

Resources for Reading Greek Manuscripts


If you want to read Greek manuscripts, use these tools to demystify what looks like an alphabet soup.

Clark R. Bates

April 2, 2024

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A colorized photo shows the marginal edits of the King James translators that gave us the now familiar text of the Bible’s opening verse. Photo © Bodleian Libraries

A Newly Digitized Bible Reveals the Origins of the King James Version


A one-of-a-kind Bible used by the King James translators offers a rare glimpse of their textual decisions.

Timothy Berg

December 8, 2023

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Drawing of Jesus teaching in the synagogue by Gustave Doré (1832–1883). Illustration by Peter Gurry.

What’s the Big Deal about a New Papyrus with Sayings of Jesus?


A second-century date for a new Greek fragment with gospel material makes it unique among papyri.

Michael W. Holmes

September 13, 2023

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The most famous location of an Essene community was near the Dead Sea.

What We Know about the People behind the Dead Sea Scrolls


History, archeology, and the scrolls themselves reveal a fascinating picture of a unique Jewish community.

Anthony Ferguson

August 8, 2023

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Illustration by Peter Gurry

The Most Objective Textual Critic You’ll Ever Meet


The evidence from stone and papyrus promises a better way to determine difficult elements of the Bible’s original text.

Benjamin Kantor

April 4, 2023

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The statue of Erasmus at the University Rotterdam is the oldest statue in the Netherlands. Photo from Flickr

Erasmus and the Search for the Original Text of the New Testament


Erasmus’s Greek New Testament was a monumental achievement, but left room for later scholars to improve it.

Martin Heide

February 7, 2023

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The Jewish revisers.

Illustration by Jordan Daniel Singer

The Legacy of the First Revised Bible Translations


The modern impulse to get the Bible right in translation has its roots in the Jews who revised the Septuagint.

John D. Meade

December 6, 2022

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