UCL Greek Papyri Video

The University College London Department of Greek and Latin has posted an old video introducing Greek papyri that was both entertaining and informative.

Urtext, Archetype, Fluidity or Textual Convergence The Quest for the Texts of the Hebrew Bible International Conference

Jean-Sebastien Rey and Stefan Schorch have announced a call for papers for their upcoming conference Urtext, Archetype, Fluidity or Textual Convergence The Quest for the Texts of the Hebrew Bible International Conference in Metz, France, from 5-7 November 2019. The topic sounds very interesting, and I hope the discussion will be fruitful, though unfortunately I won't be able to make it.

HT Agade

Cairo Genizah Hexapla Codex

The featured Genizah Fragment of the Month for March is the important Greek Hexapla palimpsest T-S 12.182. Benjamin Kantor suggests that the codex originally had six columns including one in Hebrew characters (now lost) and discusses several interesting features of the codex.