This post launches a new series exploring how the landscape of Greek New Testament witnesses has changed over the past thirty years. The Kurzgefasste Liste—the catalogue of all known surviving Greek New Testament manuscripts—is foundational for virtually all scholarly work on the Greek New Testament textual tradition. Drawing on my editorial work on the forthcoming […]
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The Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg preserves a remarkable and comparatively under-studied collection of Greek New Testament manuscripts. Its earliest New Testament witness is GA 091, a sixth-century majuscule fragment of John; its latest is GA 2267, a manuscript containing the Gospel of Matthew and dated to 1830, making it the second latest-dated manuscript in the entire Kurzgefasste Liste. The collection spans fourteen centuries and offers a striking cross-section of the Greek New Testament tradition, from the early Byzantine period to the nineteenth century.
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Two Greek New Testament Manuscripts Sold for $20 — Rediscovered Last month, an unusual post appeared in the Facebook group Greek Palaeography. It would lead to the identification of two Greek New Testament manuscript leaves that had been missing for over sixty years. Bryan Blakemore of Springfield, Illinois, shared images of two framed Greek manuscript folios.
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How Many Complete Greek New Testament Manuscripts Are There REALLY? For decades, the standard answer to the question, “How many complete Greek New Testament manuscripts do we currently have?” has been “about 60.” But what, precisely qualifies a manuscript as “complete”? And do 60 manuscripts really meet that standard? In what follows, I examine these
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