Post by afanoffiona on Feb 10, 2007 19:23:22 GMT -5
Hey Everyone!
I figured since there was some interest in my studies in Greek, that you guys would find this interesting.
I don't know how many of you are familiar with the name Daniel Wallace, but he is a famous New Testament scholar who teaches New Testament Greek at Dallas Theological Seminary. His second year Greek grammar, Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics, is one of the best advanced grammars availible.
Anyway, he is working on a project to go around the world and get high quality digital photographs all of the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. The reason for this is because the manuscripts decay so quickly. Expecially the papyri. Anyway, the neat thing about this project is he is making these photographs available online to the general public! Here is his website:
www.csntm.org/Default.aspx
Just click on the "manuscripts" link, and click the "view images" link of the manuscript you want to view. [Disclaimer...Codex Siniaticus has a loooooooong section of introductions. The actual pictures don't start until the linked marked "GA01_001a.jpg"]
Also, he has a few samples [the digital ones] at the bottom of the hope page from a trip he took to Istanbul [Constantinople] in which he and the entire group spent hours taking pictures of the manuscripts there in the library of Patriarch Bartholomew of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. You can also click on the "Constantinople" link at the top of the home page, and it will show you pictures of them taking these photographs, and give you a couple more samples from their trip.
Anyway, I thought it would be interesting to everyone, as not too many people have seen Greek manuscripts of the New Testament before. The study of how we got the New Testament from all of the copy errors in these manuscripts down through the centuries, and how we are able to reconstruct the text of the New Testament by using all of these manuscripts is fascinating.
God Bless,
afanoffiona
I figured since there was some interest in my studies in Greek, that you guys would find this interesting.
I don't know how many of you are familiar with the name Daniel Wallace, but he is a famous New Testament scholar who teaches New Testament Greek at Dallas Theological Seminary. His second year Greek grammar, Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics, is one of the best advanced grammars availible.
Anyway, he is working on a project to go around the world and get high quality digital photographs all of the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. The reason for this is because the manuscripts decay so quickly. Expecially the papyri. Anyway, the neat thing about this project is he is making these photographs available online to the general public! Here is his website:
www.csntm.org/Default.aspx
Just click on the "manuscripts" link, and click the "view images" link of the manuscript you want to view. [Disclaimer...Codex Siniaticus has a loooooooong section of introductions. The actual pictures don't start until the linked marked "GA01_001a.jpg"]
Also, he has a few samples [the digital ones] at the bottom of the hope page from a trip he took to Istanbul [Constantinople] in which he and the entire group spent hours taking pictures of the manuscripts there in the library of Patriarch Bartholomew of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. You can also click on the "Constantinople" link at the top of the home page, and it will show you pictures of them taking these photographs, and give you a couple more samples from their trip.
Anyway, I thought it would be interesting to everyone, as not too many people have seen Greek manuscripts of the New Testament before. The study of how we got the New Testament from all of the copy errors in these manuscripts down through the centuries, and how we are able to reconstruct the text of the New Testament by using all of these manuscripts is fascinating.
God Bless,
afanoffiona
