Tuesday 28 April 2009

Punctuation!

Tyndale House Biblical Studies Library in Cambridge is a place of great scholarship. But it's no ivory tower. Yes, there are 'research fellows' and loads of PhD students, but the work has tremendous value. As the world seeks to undermine the reliability of the Bible, these bears of big brains are demonstrating that it is good history, that it hangs together as a coherent whole, and that we can trust the transmission of the text down the ages.
I went up there today and met with Dirk Jonkind (Research Fellow) to sort out my own little project. He was really enthusiastic that I should look at the punctuation marks in P66 (a 2nd Century manuscript of John's Gospel). We've no idea what I might find because no-one has really done this research before; the various dots and double dots been noticed and noted before, but not examined for significance or meaning. Dirk would like to publish the finished work - could it be the next Amazon best-seller?!

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