The Text of the Gospels

A blog by James Snapp Jr. about New Testament textual criticism, especially involving variants in the Gospels.

Saturday, September 5, 2026

Ephesians 1:1-10 in Papyrus 46: Your Compilation Is Better

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Older is better when it comes to manuscripts, right?  Not necessarily.  Consider the first page of Ephesians in Papyrus 46 (the oldest extan...
Sunday, August 30, 2026

What Can We Learn from Cosmas Indicopleustes?

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             Even after Cosmas , an Egyptian monk, sailed to India in the 500s, he still believed the earth was flat.  In this respect he w...
Friday, August 21, 2026

An Uncatalogued Fragment of Acts in Bulgaria

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Recently at the NT Textual Criticism discussion-group on Facebook, Georgi Parpulov announced the existence of an manuscript containing text...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Meet GA 2425 - A Fragment of Second Timothy and Titus

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GA 2425 is one of the manuscripts that were considered "irrelevant" by Aland and Aland on the basis of its primarily Byzantine te...
Thursday, July 30, 2026

Strange Bedfellows in Acts 4:12

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     The Textus Receptus – the base-text of the New Testament in the King James Version – usually is precisely the same as the Byzantine Te...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2026

GA 2878 and Its Textual Anomalies

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GA 2878 is a Gospels fragment from the 1100s that resides in the Dunham Bible Museum of Houston Baptist University.  It survives as a singl...
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Thursday, July 9, 2026

Rising Star: What's Nelson Hsieh Think? (Part One)

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Nelson Hsieh "James, you handsome rogue," I wondered, "Regarding New Testament textual criticism, what school of thought is r...
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