For the past twelve months, I’ve been on sabbatical from my teaching duties at Dallas Seminary. The sabbatical officially comes to an end on June 30, but the work goes on. We...

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Wall Street Journal: Digitizing Ancient Manuscripts

An article in the Wall Street Journal, entitled, “The Next Age of Discovery,” appeared in the May 8, 2009 issue. Written by WSJ’s reporter, Alexandra Alter, the article...

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Καλο Πασχα! Χριστος ανεστη!

Kalo Pascha! Christos anesti! Happy Easter! Christ is risen! Saturday night, April 18. It’s Easter tomorrow in Greece, and the festivities are in high gear. We’re staying in...

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Eight Uncatalogued NT Manuscripts at the Benaki Museum

On February 23, 2009, a team of four people from the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (www.csntm.org) embarked on a trip to Greece. The primary mission was to...

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The Number of Textual Variants: An Evangelical Miscalculation

By Dan Wallace In the Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, by Norm Geisler (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998; p. 532), there is a comment about the number of textual variants...

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A Week on Lesbos in Search of… Manuscripts

By the time you read this blog post, I will be back in Athens, coming off a week-long expedition to the island of Lesbos. Yes, Lesbos. This is the third largest of the 2000...

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Photographing the Wee Beastie

Three days after I came home from our first expedition of the season (to Albania and Greece), I took off again—this time, on a road trip. With two other guys, we drove...

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In Search of Biblical Manuscripts: The City Library in Kozani, Greece

Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The day started at 11 am at the Greek Bible Institute in Pikermi, just outside of Athens. Late start because we thought driving to the famed...

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A Day at a Greek Orthodox Monastery

Spending another week on Patmos has been a great joy. It has occurred to me that I have not given you much of a detailed look at what it’s like to spend a day here,...

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Own a Piece of History

OK, I admit it: this is shameless of me. It’s tactless, mercenary, and almost despicable. Nevertheless, I’m going forth with it because I believe that, in this...

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