OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism

I just saw this old (almost a year old, which is ancient in AI terms) article on Google Gemini 3 essentially solving the problem of Handwri...

Charles Loder has started a project to encode the layout of the Leningrad Codex to better situate its text on the page. He's also askin...

True story.... Years ago my poor pregnant wife woke up to the smell of smoke to find me burning model scrolls in the living room. :) I was b...

James Moore has an interview on the Judeans at Elephantine and their socio-religious background that is well worth a listen. He makes the i...

I've just learned that Hector Patmore has passed away while hiking in Scotland. I didn't know him well, but he was always kind and t...

Steven Fassberg has published a new grammar of Qumran Hebrew entitled The Hebrew of Qumran . This promises to be a very useful tool. _______...

Andrew Case is asking for volunteers to help digitize the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project volumes so that they can be easily distributed a...