Keith Elliott, in memoriam
I was saddened to learn of Keith Elliott’s recent passing. I met Keith at an early SBL Annual Meeting while I was doing my masters work,...
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Stephen Young
- Mar 25
- 5 min
A (No) Nonsense Reading at Hebrews 12:15
The Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece 28th edition (NA28) leverages a fantastic assortment of signs and abbreviations to capture a...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Feb 11
- 1 min
Funeral for a Friend
In the 2022 Festschrift presented to Larry Pettegrew I wrote the following dedication: I have had the pleasure of knowing Larry Pettegrew...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Dec 22, 2023
- 2 min
Knowest thou the Latin?
In The Prince and the Pauper (published in 1882), Mark Twain made some passing references to the Latin and Greek languages. The plot is...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Dec 15, 2023
- 3 min
Review of Wheelock's Vocabulary Cards
Richard A. LaFleur and Brad Tillery, Vocabulary Cards and Grammatical Forms Summary for Wheelock’s Latin, 2d ed. Mundelein, IL:...
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W. Andrew Smith
- May 27, 2023
- 2 min
Codex Vaticanus Facsimile Acquisition
Codex Vaticanus (Vat. gr. 1209; GA 03) is a fourth-century manuscript containing most of the Greek Old Testament and most of the New...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Jan 25, 2023
- 2 min
Transcription Music (2 of 3)
In a previous post I introduced some music that I personally feel is ideal listening while transcribing manuscripts. Working on the huge...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Dec 14, 2022
- 4 min
Andrew Smith on Codicological Analysis of Codex Alexandrinus
Every semester the Greek Paul Project hosts an academic webinar addressing issues in biblical textual criticism, manuscript studies, and...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Sep 7, 2022
- 2 min
ECM 1 Timothy Manuscript List
As editorial work progresses on the Greek text of ECM 1 Timothy, I thought it would be useful to post the final list of 332 Greek...
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W. Andrew Smith
- May 16, 2022
- 1 min
Joey McCollum on the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM)
The Greek Paul Project recently invited Joey McCollum to share what he has learned about the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM)...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Apr 29, 2022
- 2 min
Hands on History
With the pandemic in a more tolerable state, my textual criticism students and I are finally able to make class excursions again. Today I...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Mar 24, 2022
- 2 min
Latin Postdoc Opportunity at Birmingham
In conjunction with the AHRC-DFG GALaCSy project, a full-time, 24-month research fellowship is now being advertised at ITSEE in the...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Dec 31, 2021
- 3 min
Transcription Music (1 of 3)
With a new year nearly upon us, it seems appropriate to address a serious issue that will impact student productivity in the coming year:...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Nov 11, 2021
- 1 min
The Endings of Mark
The MARK16 project has announced its second international conference, which will be held virtually on 2-3 June 2022. An impressive array...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Oct 22, 2021
- 2 min
Lectionaries & the Pastoral Epistles ECM
Other editions of the Editio Critica Maior (ECM) have used a limited number of lectionaries to produce a critical apparatus. For example,...
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CRBMI Guest Writer
- Mar 12, 2021
- 2 min
CRBMI Contributor Stephen Campbell Publishes Durham University Dissertation
On November 16, Shepherds Theological Seminary graduate (’12 MACM and ’15 MDiv) and CRBMI contributor published his PhD dissertation. The...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Nov 11, 2020
- 2 min
Metadata and Provenance: New Work on P.Sapph.Obbink
In the latest volume of the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (number 57), C. Michael Sampson’s article “Deconstructing...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Oct 29, 2020
- 2 min
The Bizarre "Gospel of Jesus's Wife" Story
In a newly published article by The Gospel Coalition ("Closing the Case on the Gospel of Jesus's Wife"), Christian Askeland discusses the...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Oct 27, 2020
- 2 min
COVID-19’s Impact on the Greek Paul Project
It is no surprise that education has been globally impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Revenue streams for schools have been disrupted,...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Apr 20, 2020
- 2 min
Arrest at Oxford over stolen Oxyrhynchus papyri
There was no way to predict that the announcement of the so-called "First-Century Mark" fragment at a debate between Dan Wallace and Bart...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Mar 26, 2020
- 2 min
Greek Paul Project Farewell and Congratulations
Today we celebrate Dr. Megan Burnett's award of a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung (INTF) in...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Jan 1, 2020
- 2 min
Migraines and Linguistics
There have only been three periods in my life where I suffered migraine headaches, the first two of which were mercifully short. The most...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Dec 2, 2019
- 1 min
SBL/ECM Session on Byzantine Manuscripts
It was an honor to present a paper last week at the Editio Critica Maior (ECM) session at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Apr 25, 2019
- 2 min
Report from manuSciences '19
In March I participated in manuSciences ’19, a week-long Franco-German summer school in Fréjus (France) focused on multi-faceted...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Dec 9, 2018
- 1 min
Thessaloniki Team Victim of Rioting
Last week we learned the sad news that our Greek Paul Project team at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki fell victim to the...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Oct 29, 2018
- 2 min
Editing the Editio Critica Maior edition of the Pastoral Epistles (Part 3)
Having recently returned from ten demanding but fantastic days of ECM meetings in Thessaloniki and Volos, I would like to use this...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Sep 21, 2018
- 2 min
Editing the Editio Critica Maior edition of the Pastoral Epistles (Part 2)
What is involved in editing a critical biblical text for the Editio Critica Maior? The first requirement is to obtain a body of...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Aug 14, 2018
- 2 min
Editing the Editio Critica Maior edition of the Pastoral Epistles
After more than a year of preparation, last month my family and I moved to Münster so that I could begin a year-long sabbatical working...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Feb 27, 2018
- 2 min
Logos in Oxford Award Recipients
The CRBMI congratulates MA student Lily Su and MDiv student Troy Summers for being invited to attend this summer’s Logos in Oxford...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Jan 30, 2018
- 1 min
Coptic Intensive in Wuppertal
CRBMI Research Associate Steve Young, a Master of Arts (Biblical Literature and Languages) student at Shepherds Theological Seminary, has...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Jul 10, 2017
- 1 min
Additional Resources
As noted in a previous entry, a generous donation from Asset Protectors & Advisors in Raleigh, NC, has provided the CRBMI with a number...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Apr 17, 2017
- 4 min
How to Make Lampblack Ink
In this article, I demonstrate a procedure for making lampblack ink, one of the earliest black inks used in manuscript production. This...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Mar 15, 2017
- 1 min
Ulrich Schmid on Marcion and the Corpus Paulinum
The Museum of the Bible Greek Paul Project is hosting Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schmid, who will present on Marcion’s Pauline edition and the...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Sep 20, 2016
- 3 min
Muratorian Fragment as Fraud
Tonight at Duke University’s New Testament and Jewish Studies Colloquium, Clare Rothschild presented on “Muratorian Fragment as Fraud”;...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Sep 18, 2016
- 1 min
Ekatarini Tsalampouni on the Byzantine Text of the Bible
The Museum of the Bible Greek Paul Project is pleased to have Dr. Ekatarini Tsalampouni, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, present on...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Jul 6, 2016
- 1 min
Equipping Students with Scholarly Resources
Thanks to a very generous gift from Asset Protectors & Advisors in Raleigh, NC, the CRBMI has been blessed with a wealth of text-critical...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Sep 11, 2015
- 1 min
Daniel Wallace on Textual Criticism of the New Testament
The Museum of the Bible Greek Paul Project is pleased to host a webinar for Scholars Initiative students with Dr. Dan Wallace of the...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Jul 24, 2015
- 2 min
Report on Logos in Oxford (2015)
This summer STS Master of Divinity student Denis Salgado and I were selected to attend the 2015 Logos in Oxford conference at Oxford...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Apr 8, 2015
- 1 min
Viewing Manuscripts at the Rubenstein Library
Yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting the Rubenstein Library at Duke University with a few M.Div. students from Shepherds Theological...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Apr 7, 2015
- 1 min
Text-Critical Studies
CRBMI Director Andrew Smith has accepted an invitation to serve as an Assistant Editor for the Society of Biblical Literature’s...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Feb 10, 2015
- 1 min
Summer 2015: Logos in Oxford
Congratulations to STS student Denis Salgado for being accepted to participate in the Green Scholars Initiative’s Logos in Oxford program...
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W. Andrew Smith
- Feb 4, 2015
- 1 min
Göttingen’s Digital Edition of the Sahidic-Coptic Old Testament
Göttingen / Berlin. Die Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen hat grünes Licht für ein neues langfristig angelegtes Projekt der Grundlage
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