Wulfila project: browse the Gothic Bible
The Gothic Bible has been on-line for two years or so at the Wulfila project. A nice feature is that every Gothic word is linked to a grammatical and lexical parsing, so people with limited knowledge...
View ArticleSee My Hands and My Feet
Although John chapter 20 clearly claims that Jesus’ hands were nailed to the cross there is no such clear statement in the NT as to whether Jesus’ feet were nailed or tied. Roman practice appears to...
View ArticleBen Witherington: Was Lazarus the Beloved Disciple?
When I blogged about SBL 2006, I had mentioned that Ben Witherington’s paper on the Beloved Disciple in John was “unforgettable.” If you missed it then, he has now put it up on his blog, Was Lazarus...
View ArticleBauckham on Jesus and the Eyewitnesses
Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2006), xiii + 538 pp. Bauckham’s book has been getting a lot of buzz (e.g. Chris...
View ArticleOrigins of the Pericope Adulterae
The Pericope Adulterae or the Woman taken in Adultery is found in John 7:53-8:11 in most manuscripts of John’s Gospel but is almost certainly not original there. The pericope is missing from most early...
View ArticleClement of Alexandria and the Gospel of John
According to Eusebius, Clement of Alexandria in the Hypotyposes reported an interesting tradition about the Gospels. Again, in the same books Clement has set down a tradition which he had received from...
View ArticleShelfer on the Term "Paraclete"
It is always a treat when classicists write on New Testament subjects. Their mastery of the wider Greco-Roman material, compared with N.T. scholars, is often evident in their publications–particularly...
View ArticleClausal Clitic Placement in Classical Greek
About a week ago, Mike Aubrey tipped me off about a recent dissertation on the placement of clausal clitics in Classical Greek: David Goldstein, “Wackernagel’s Law in Fifth-Century Greek,” (Ph.D....
View ArticleEphrem Syrus on the composition of the Four Gospels
I’ve been reading Carmel McCarthy’s translation of Saint Ephrem’s Commentary on Tatian’s Diatessaron. At the end there is a short pasage about the Evangelists. McCarthy is doubtful whether it is by...
View ArticleNaked in the Sea of Galilee
John 21:7 states: λέγει οὖν ὁ μαθητὴς ἐκεῖνος ὃν ἠγάπα ὁ Ἰησοῦς τῷ Πέτρῳ, Ὁ κύριός ἐστιν. Σίμων οὖν Πέτρος, ἀκούσας ὅτι ὁ κύριός ἐστιν, τὸν ἐπενδύτην διεζώσατο, ἦν γὰρ γυμνός, καὶ ἔβαλεν ἑαυτὸν εἰς τὴν...
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