Author Archives: Brent Nongbri

The Question of Question Marks in Greek Manuscripts

Posted on April 14, 2022 by Brent Nongbri

I’ve been meaning to post for quite some time on a fascinating video from the 2021 Birmingham Colloquium on New Testament Textual Criticism. Elijah Hixson presented on P50, a papyrus bifolium containing Acts 8:26-32 and 10:26-31 kept at Yale’s Beinecke … Continue reading →

Posted in Fakes and Forgeries, Punctuation | 7 Comments

The Strange “nu” Story of 7Q5

Posted on March 19, 2022 by Brent Nongbri

Someone has done a real number on the Wikipedia page for 7Q5. [[Update 20 March 2022: I see that a good citizen has cleaned up some of the Wikipedia page. The version I cited is here. Let’s hope the page … Continue reading →

Posted in 7Q5, Dead Sea Scrolls, José O'Callaghan | 11 Comments

Radiocarbon Dating of the Cologne Mani Codex

Posted on March 14, 2022 by Brent Nongbri

In volume 220 of Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (2021), there is a short article by Cornelia Römer: “Die Datierung des Kölner Mani-Kodex” (pp. 94-96). The article reports the results of AMS radiocarbon analysis of the Cologne Mani codex. For … Continue reading →

Posted in Anton Fackelmann, Codices, Codicology, Cologne Mani Codex, Radiocarbon analysis | 3 Comments

New Article on the Dead Sea Scrolls said to come from Cave 1Q

Posted on February 24, 2022 by Brent Nongbri

I’m happy to report that the first 2022 issue of Harvard Theological Review contains my article on the Dead Sea Scrolls said to come from Cave 1 at Qumran: “How the ‘Jerusalem Scrolls’ Became the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran … Continue reading →

Posted in Antiquities Market, Archaeological context, Dead Sea Scrolls, Khalil Eskander Shahin (Kando) | 1 Comment

Digital Images of P64

Posted on February 8, 2022 by Brent Nongbri

I noted before that the Bodleian Library at Oxford had made images of several of their manuscripts freely available online. I see now that they also have put up excellent high resolution digital images of P64, that is, the Magdalen … Continue reading →

Posted in Magdalen College Matthew Papyrus, Palaeography | 4 Comments

The New Facsimiles of the Beatty Biblical Papyri

Posted on January 23, 2022 by Brent Nongbri

My first post of 2021 was a notice that new facsimiles of some of the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri had appeared. At the time, I had not seen the books in person, and all I could do was note their … Continue reading →

Posted in Chester Beatty Papyri, Codices, Codicology, Frederic Kenyon | 5 Comments

Christianity Today on the Hobby Lobby vs. Obbink Case

Posted on December 15, 2021 by Brent Nongbri

Christianity Today has just published an article summarizing recent events in the case of Hobby Lobby vs. Obbink. The article, which contains some details from the most recent court documents, can be found here.

Posted in Antiquities Market, Dirk Obbink, Oxyrhynchus Papyri | 1 Comment

Update on Hobby Lobby vs. Obbink Case

Posted on December 3, 2021 by Brent Nongbri

A number of people have notified me in recent days that attorneys for Hobby Lobby have requested a certificate of default in their case against Dirk Obbink, who has apparently not responded the summons served in September. A couple days … Continue reading →

Posted in Dirk Obbink, Oxyrhynchus Papyri | 6 Comments

New Book on the Faddan More Psalter

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Brent Nongbri

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about the Faddan More Psalter, a parchment codex containing the Psalms in Latin that was found in an Irish bog in 2006. John Gillis noted in the comments that he has a … Continue reading →

Posted in Faddan More Psalter | 1 Comment

Chancery Writing and Greek Literature

Posted on November 10, 2021 by Brent Nongbri

Having spent some time in my last post looking at P.Berol. inv. 11532 and its remarkable handwriting, I am reminded of a couple classic articles by formidable palaeographic experts. The first is a long and in depth study of this … Continue reading →

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