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A Relief from Ostia Showing Writers at Desks
The museum at the archaeological park at Ostia Antica has reopened after many years of closure for renovations. The results are quite impressive, and I hope to have a chance to post some reflections about the museum itself soon, but … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeological context, Codices, desks, Ostia, Tablets
Tagged archaeology, Book History, books, copyists, desks, history, Ostia, Ostia Antica, Rome, scribes, tables, technology
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Manuscripts of Cicero’s Letters to Atticus
I’ve had occasion recently to do a bit of work on a couple of Cicero’s letters to Atticus. Both the old text of Tyrrell and Purser and the more recent text of Shackleton Bailey are wonderful resources, but there are … Continue reading
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Digital Images of Codex Bobiensis Online
I’m not sure when this happened, but the surviving folia of Codex Bobiensis (or Bobbiensis, CLA 4 465) have been photographed and the images made available online here. Codex Bobiensis is a copy of the Gospel According to Mark and … Continue reading
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Photos from the 1950 Duke Exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Thanks to Alexander Schick for pointing out the digitization of photos in the Duke University Archives related to the exhibition at Duke of the Dead Sea Scrolls that were in the possession of Mar Samuel in 1950. There are some … Continue reading
The Earliest Photo of the Man Who Discovered the First Dead Sea Scrolls?
When I was looking into the history of the Dead Sea Scrolls that are said to have been found in Cave 1Q a few years ago, I became interested in the early surviving videos and photographs of the scrolls and … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, Dead Sea Scrolls, history, israel, qumran, qumran-cave-1q
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A Correction and a Codicological Mystery in P.Bodmer 13
I only recently learned of the death, about a year ago now, of Stuart G. Hall (1928-2023). It sent me back to an article that we wrote together. In 2015, I stumbled across grainy black and white photographs of what … Continue reading
Posted in Bodmer composite codex, Bodmer Papyri, Book binding, Codices, Codicology
Tagged codex, Codicology, papyrology, papyrus
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Stichometry 5: Problems with Metzger’s Stichometric Data
This will be my fifth and final post in this series on stichometry. For the earlier posts, see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. One of the things that initially confused me about the stichometric data for … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, bruce-metzger, New Testament, Stichometry
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Variant Readings 