Read the New Testament Like It Was Written
New Testament Manuscripts
The Septuagint (often abbreviated as LXX) is the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, traditionally said to have been produced in the 3rd century BC for the Jewish community in Alexandria. It holds immense significance not only for biblical …
Greek abbreviations, contractions and ligatures.
Learning abbreviations in the Greek New Testament is essential for understanding how scribes preserved the text in manuscripts. Abbreviations were used to save space and to show reverence, particularly for sacred names and common phrases. …
The British Library has a collection of over a thousand Greek manuscript volumes. Thanks to a generous grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the British Library has made the digitized version of its Greek manuscripts freely available online at …
Many Greek manuscripts of the New Testament after the eighth and ninth centuries mark the beginning of the lections with the word ἀρχή or ἀρ or χʹ/ ἀρ and the end with the word τέλος or τέ or λ/τέ inserted …
The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) is now available for Biblical scholars to view online. It is a project of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and powered by Google technology.
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