Mike Vaticanus is not a 'late discovery'; it has been in the Vatican library since the 15th century, and was known, by reputation, to Erasmus. In 1533 the...
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clearbrush
May 17, 2013 6:11 am
Hi Mike again, The information that I passed on to you is "non-blatant"; i.e., it is not conspicuous in the ancient records. If it was, it would be common...
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yennifmit
May 17, 2013 6:11 am
Hi George, A little while ago I wrote something that mentions the "girls who were skilled in elegant writing" employed by Origen: ...
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Vox Verax
voxverax
May 17, 2013 6:11 am
Mike Karoules, I hope you're hungry. As we approach the question of whether or not Sinaiticus and Vaticanus share a copyist, another question should be asked...
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Steven Avery
praxean
May 17, 2013 6:52 am
Hi, On the Eusebius question, we should note the fascinating section ... The Revised Version of the first three Gospels considered in its bearings upon the...
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Vox Verax
voxverax
May 17, 2013 5:02 pm
More and more Armenian manuscripts are coming online. The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library has images of several collections of (mainly) Armenian materials,...
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Daniel Buck
bucksburg
May 18, 2013 9:20 am
From:yennifmit <tjf@...>Â Â Hi George, A little while ago I wrote something that mentions the "girls who were skilled in elegant writing" employed by...
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Vox Verax
voxverax
May 18, 2013 9:20 am
George Eller, Not to draw attention away from the main question here, but ... GE: "The Bishop of Alexandria complained (?) that Eusebius ordered him to...
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yennifmit
May 18, 2013 2:23 pm
Hi Daniel, Yes, it's a tricky text. See the article on P.Oxy. 4496 in _The Oxyrhynchus Papyri_, vol. 66, pp. 5-7, for notes relating to some of the issues. The...
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clearbrush
May 19, 2013 5:31 pm
Jim.. are you asking me to do your research ? Admittedly, you are one of the top experts in the world on the various (extraneous) endings of the NT Gospel of...
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clearbrush
May 20, 2013 6:06 am
Hi Tim, Always a pleasure to have your help.. Thanks for prodding my memory, and yes; could we not say Origen was the *origin* for precedent in the Alexandrian...
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Steven Avery
praxean
May 20, 2013 6:06 am
Hi, Subject was: [textualcriticism] Vaticanus and Sinaiticus: A Common Origin James Snapp, Jr. ....the corrector's note at the end of Esther in Codex...
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Steven Avery
praxean
May 20, 2013 6:07 am
Hi, Subject was: [textualcriticism] Re: Manuscript Sinaiticus vs. Vaticanus Just to take one of these, the one that I ... him to prepare Bibles per the...
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Daniel Buck
bucksburg
May 20, 2013 2:15 pm
I like the idea of these 50 Bibles being 7-volume sets. Given the huge size of the few entire NT manuscripts, I was dubious that there could be such a thing as...
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Larry Swain
theswain
May 20, 2013 5:04 pm
My impression is that pandects were relatively rare things and that the Scriptures continued to be thought of in units. But perhaps I am projecting from...
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Vox Verax
voxverax
May 20, 2013 5:35 pm
SA: "each Bible was in three or four parts or volumes (Nestle, Snapp)" No no no; /I just said/ that each Bible was in three AND four parts; three for the NT...
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clearbrush
May 20, 2013 8:21 pm
Hi Steven, May I commend you for some outstanding research in short order ? Also, thanks for our shared interest. With Wieland's/and or/the moderator's...
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clearbrush
May 20, 2013 8:21 pm
Hi Larry and Daniel, A factor not often considered, is the expense and/or efficiency of the different column formats. The most efficient per-page is the single...
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yennifmit
May 21, 2013 8:33 am
Hi George, It may be that Origen first had the idea of using female calligraphers for Christian book production, but it could have been someone else too. He...
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yennifmit
May 21, 2013 8:33 am
Hi James, I like the idea that the "threes and fours" that Eusebius mentions relates to copies of the Bible bound in seven volumes. Whether or not you were...
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Vox Verax
voxverax
May 21, 2013 8:33 am
Dear George Eller, No; I'm not asking you to do my research; wouldn't dream of it. But, as I wait for a response from Mike K., I am puzzled by some aspects of...
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yennifmit
May 21, 2013 1:23 pm
Hi All, I just found out about this site: http://www.psi-online.it/ A number of NT papyri are catalogued under PSI numbers: PSI 1 (P35), 3 (P36), 108 (P93),...
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clearbrush
May 21, 2013 5:13 pm
Dear James, Thank you for what I want to perceive as a warm dialogue. The overall discussion that we on the list are having, is imo; loaded with profound...
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Vox Verax
voxverax
May 22, 2013 6:10 am
George E, You stated, "Eusebius of Kaisareia transmitted direct orders for copies of the Bible to the Bishop of Alexandria as an agent of no less than the...
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clearbrush
May 22, 2013 6:10 am
Dear Tim, Always thankful for interaction with you, as in this case you jogged my memory about something concerning your publication of P.Oxy. 4496 and our...
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Larry Swain
theswain
May 22, 2013 5:52 pm
What criteria does one use to determine a female hand from a male hand? Even in the case of the "Roman garrison" letters, the content certainly does not...
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Jgibson
jgibson000
May 22, 2013 6:12 pm
... And even if female DNA were found on a MS, all that could logically be deduced from that fact is that at some point a female handled the book, yes? Jeffrey...
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clearbrush
May 22, 2013 7:58 pm
Dear James, You will notice, that with few exceptions, I've refrained from mentioning the Bishop of Alexandria by name in these discussions. Somebody in...
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Vox Verax
voxverax
6:03 am
Dear George, (As I wait for a response from Mike K. . . .) I provided the name of the work, and the page-number, I was using: Lake's Intro, page xv. Lake...
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Larry Swain
theswain
6:03 am
George, In my view, James has quite successfully refuted you. There is nothing in Athanasius' brief statement that indicates anything about Eusebius giving...
