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University of Michigan manuscript images now at CSNTM!

In July, CSNTM sent two teams to photograph all the parchment and paper Greek New Testament manuscripts at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. UM boasts the largest collection of GNT MSS in North America. One out of six such MSS are housed at the university. UM allowed CSNTM to photograph all these MSS and post them on our site. It took a month of work, with more than 19,000 images shot. (Most of the manuscripts had not even been microfilmed.) As of August 6, 2008, CSNTM's high-resolution digital images are now posted. We also took UV photographs of the palimpsests and illegible leaves. We are grateful to Dr. Peggy Daub, director of the Special Collections Library of the University of Michigan, for the permission to photograph and post these images.

Manuscript Samples from Albania

Recently, the Center was able to photograph manuscripts from the Albanian National Archive in Tirana, Albania; read about the Albania Expedition here. The General Directorate of Archives has graciously allowed a few of the images from this expedition to be posted; you can view sample images of some of their Greek manuscripts here. The manuscripts photographed in Albania include a large number of previously uncatalogued documents.

The World's Smallest Gospel Manuscript

Shooting the Wee Beastie

Uncatalogued Lectionary Fragment

As of May 8th, 2008, we now have a fragment from a 10th century uncatalogued lectionary manuscript for viewing here on the site. Four leaves of this manuscript are known to exist. Each page has two columns, and each column has approximately 20 lines each. You may view the images of the four leaves here.

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New Testament Text-Critical Colloquium in Münster, Germany

by Daniel B. Wallace

Tuesday, Aug 5, 2008

From August 3 through August 6, 2008, most of the world’s leading New Testament textual critics have gathered in Münster, Germany, for an important conference. Sponsored by the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung (Institute for New Testament Textual Research or INTF), these scholars have come together to hear lectures and to dialog on important methods for doing textual research. The roster includes a veritable Who’s Who of text-critical scholars: Eduard Lohse, Barbara Aland, Holger Strutwolf, Klaus Wachtel, Ulrich Schmid, Beate Köster, Gerd Mink, J. K. Elliott, David Parker, Peter Head, Dirk Yongkind, Tim Finney, Michael Holmes, Maurice Robinson, John Kloppenborg, David Trobisch, Larry Hurtado, Bill Warren, Roger Ohmanson, Tiedje Baarda, Jöel Delobel, Eldon Epp, Tommy Wasserman, and several others (about 50 people altogether). It seems that this conference marks a change in how various text-critical scholars are doing their work: competitive overtones are being muffled, while the tune now being sung has the sweet refrain of collaboration.