February 21st, 2024
Been quite a while since I posted a new transcription of an ancient papyrus (or well, posted at all tbh!), so I won’t dilly-dally too much here. Papyrus 47, also officially known as Papyrus Chester Beatty III, is one of…
August 23rd, 2022
I rarely recommend books on here; which is a bit odd, as I do read a lot of them. This will be the first of several coming, so as to give something new for people as I work on numerous…
March 27th, 2022
A team of archaeologists have claimed to have found the oldest-dated Hebrew text in Israel, including two instances of YHW (a shortened form of YHWH/Yahuweh), in the proto-Hebraic script. This information was announced Thursday 24th March 2022, at a press…
March 17th, 2021
Still the discoveries go on from within the Qumran caves (well, technically Nahal Hever in this case). Several more fragments from the Nahal Hever Greek Minor Prophets scroll have been discovered during excavations on the site as reported by The…
January 4th, 2021
Like most of you reading this, 2020 was not that great of a year. World-wide country lockdowns, people losing their job, the word “isolate” being used more than any other time in history. To call 2020 a “turbulent” year doesn’t…
March 14th, 2019
Here are a couple of interesting YouTube videos regarding the Dead Sea Scrolls, their discovery, and on Greek Papyri: Greek Papyri and the discoveries from Grenfell & Hunt DSS Discovery DSS Content Chester Beatty Papyri and their Digitisation Overview of…
October 2nd, 2018
As has been mentioned previously, I’ve finally got around to finishing a blog post on a newly identified fragment in the extensive Dead Sea Scrolls manuscript 4QSama (also known as 4Q51 Samuela). Along with this, there’s been some corrections / updates to…
September 25th, 2018
Just a quick update to apologise for the downtime over the past few days. Unfortunately my webhost had a massive issue Friday, which not only knocked out all the sites that they host, but even their own one. Don’t worry…
April 4th, 2018
Yup, it’s that time again! I’m pleased to finally upload the completed transcription and translation of Papyrus (P) 45, a rather large codex containing text from MattithYah (Matthew), Marcus (Mark), Lucus (Luke), Yahuchanon (John), and Acts! Please find it under…