Thoughts on Antiquity

If you’re wondering where I’ve been, I’ve been occupied with life. It’s been a very peculiar month, October she has. So many things…so many things.
Part of me also has a newfound respect for Catullus. A Latin so crisp, so inventive, so creative, and a subject matter so deep and profound, anything but mere gaity or […]

The Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium  is perhaps the main series of modern editions of oriental writers in Syriac, Ethiopic, etc. Few will be aware that all of the volumes seem to be in print.  It seems that they can be ordered from Peeters of Leuven.  A list of all volumes is here.  However the listings are very brief, and it would […]

I previously announced that I had uploaded a full set of New Testament links to the online facsimile scans of codex Alexandrinus at the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts.  
I have now done the same for codex Sinaiticus, though in a very different way. For Alexandrinus I had gone through the codex scans […]

This post is the second part of my treatment of the Origenic canon. In 3a I discussed a catena of Origenic comments put together by Eusebius. In this post I will discuss another Origenic passage, one that lists apocryphal gospels. My sincere thanks to Phil Harland for listing this series of mine in Biblical Studies […]

We’re offline for the next couple of days for the actual host transfer. Hopefully, we’ll be back up and running in a couple of days, certainly no later than Friday. Thanks for bearing with us.

As Chris Weimer noted in March of this year, the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts has a facsimile of codex Alexandrinus (A or 02) online. Immediately after Chris made mention of it, Rick Brannan wished out loud for a reference index to make finding passages easier.
I have recently taken Rick up on […]