Tag Archives: early-christian-manuscripts

New Article on P.Oxy. 1 2 and P.Oxy. 7 1010

Posted on August 6, 2025 by Brent Nongbri

This will be the first of a few posts about some recent articles of mine that have just been published. The first is a piece jointly authored by AnneMarie Luijendijk and me. The full article is available (open access!) here: … Continue reading →

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7Q5 and Appeals to Authority, Part 1: Orsolina Montevecchi

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Brent Nongbri

I am fascinated by the Wikipedia entry for 7Q5, which seems to continuously bounce back and forth between being useful and informative to being goofy and borderline incoherent. 7Q5 is a tiny fragment of papyrus found in Cave 7Q at … Continue reading →

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Ehrman on Titles of the Gospels in Sinaiticus and Vaticanus: Fact Check

Posted on January 26, 2025 by Brent Nongbri

Over at his blog, Bart Ehrman has been posting some basic facts about different books of the New Testament. The last couple posts have been about the Gospel According to Mark, and yesterday’s post, which is publicly available, treats the … Continue reading →

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Stichometry 4: Counts for Galatians in Latin Manuscripts

Posted on June 18, 2024 by Brent Nongbri

In my earlier post on the stichometry of Greek manuscripts of Galatians, I was surprised to see that the “traditional” Greek stichometric count for Galatians (293 16-syllable stichoi) matched almost perfectly with the count for the text of the Nestle-Aland … Continue reading →

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