Category Archives: Palaeography

Palaeographic Methodology

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Brent Nongbri

Peter Malik on the ETC blog has initiated a useful discussion of palaeographic method that invokes a bit of my own work. In general, he writes in favor of coming to terms with the fact that the analysis of handwriting … Continue reading →

Posted in Bodmer Papyri, Palaeography | 7 Comments

Hurtado’s List of Early Christian Manuscripts

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Brent Nongbri

Over on his blog, Larry Hurtado has posted a link to his list of “Christian Literary Texts in Manuscripts of Second & Third Centuries.” When he first published a version of this list in his 2006 book, The Earliest Christian … Continue reading →

Posted in Palaeography | 20 Comments

Palaeography and the Hawara Homer: Part 1

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Brent Nongbri

In an earlier post, I talked about the archaeology of the Hawara Homer (LDAB 1695), a papyrus roll containing the second book of the Iliad found with an unadorned mummy during Flinders Petrie’s excavations in Hawara in 1888. In this … Continue reading →

Posted in Ambrosian Iliad, British Museum, Edward Maunde Thompson, Frederic Kenyon, Hawara Homer, Palaeography, William Matthew Flinders Petrie | 7 Comments