Resource Pages

Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web
By Timothy Seid: well designed, user friendly introduction to new Testament Textual Criticism featuring short essays, images, an exercise and a manuscript catalogue. A useful site, now returned to the web after an absence of over eighteen months.

The Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism
Conceived by Rich Elliott and created by Robert B. Waltz: lots of articles arranged in an easily accessible index format, regularly updated.

New Testament Papyri and Codices
By K. C. Hanson: a useful, well laid-out catalogue featuring introductory bibliography.

Complete List of Greek NT Papyri
By Wieland Willker: another useful catalogue, limited to Greek NT Papyri.

TC Links
The links section of TC (for which see further below), maintained by Jimmy Adair, provides a comprehensive guide to material on the internet material on Biblical textual criticism.

A Synoptic Gospels Primer (New URL)
By Mahlon Smith: useful introductions to Codex Bezae, Codex, Diatessaron, Manuscript, Minuscule, Oxyrhynchus, Papyrus, Parchment, P⁶⁴ & P⁶⁷, Recension, Sinaiticus, Textual Criticism, Textus Receptus, Uncial, Vaticanus and Vellum.

From Papyrus to King James
The Transmission of the English Bible: an on-line exhibition from the University of Michigan, U.S.A., featuring some quality images, including a page of P⁴⁶ (see below).

An Online Textual Commentary on the Greek Gospels
By Wieland Willker: Ambitious, thorough project to provide a complete on-line textual commentary on the Gospels.

Student's Guide to New Testament Textual Variants
By Bruce Terry: some fine introductory material for students, with a breakdown of each NT book into sections. Greek not required.

The Oldest Extant Editions of the Letters of Paul
By David Trobisch: a new, illustrated on-line article by Prof. David Trobisch of Bangor Theological Seminary, U.S.A., adapted from the first chapter of the author's Paul's Letter Collection: Tracing the Origins (Fortress Press: Minneapolis, 1994).

The Book of Kells
Web site connected to an exhibition at Oregon State Library, U.S.A., featuring many images. The Book of Kells is an illuminated edition of the four Gospels dating from ninth century Ireland.

Gutenberg Digital
Outstanding web site featuring an easy-to-use digitised version the whole of Johann Gutenberg's Bible (ca. 1454). You can choose how to view individual pages of text and you can explore all sorts of material connected with the Gutenberg Bible, essays on his life, achievement, background and more. Available in both German and English. A truly brilliant achievement.

Codex Vaticanus
By Wieland Willker: clear, illustrated web site devoted to Codex Vaticanus (B/03), including reflections on the recently discovered text-critical "umlaut" signs. This is a valuable addition to the extensive materials already made available on Wieland Willker's Bible Pages.