T.V. Moore Lecture Series at SFTS, Friday, April 8
A new era dawns for the printing of the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin texts of the Bible and the Qur’an. This dramatic era is exemplified by an emerging edition of the Hebrew Bible, the latest edition of the Greek New Testament, a new in-depth examination of the Old Latin Bible (a text which is uncontrolled by any church authority and frequently inaccurate), and the recent rediscovery of one of the oldest known manuscripts of the Qur’anic text. What is new about these discoveries and understandings, and what do they mean for our understanding of the Bible? What do early Qur’anic manuscripts tell us about the use of the Qur’anic text at the beginning of Islam? About its stability and/or fluidity?
Speakers are:
Alba Fedeli, Research Fellow at the Center for Religious Studies at Central European University, Budapest, rediscovered one of the oldest Qur’anic manuscripts. Her lecture is: Editing Qur’anic manuscripts: the case of the Mingana-Lewis palimpsest and its digital edition: ‘Are we producing data or texts?’
Ron Hendel, Norma and Sam Dabby Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, general editor of The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition. His lecture is: The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition: Restoring a Multiple Text
David Trobisch, Museum of the Bible. Director of Collections. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Washington, DC and one of five editors of the Novum Testamentum Graece at the Münster Institute for New Testament Textual Research. His lecture is: The Text of the New Testament: Is there an original?
Annette Weissenrieder, Associate Professor of New Testament, with Professor Dr. Thomas Bauer from the University of Erfurt, co-editor of the Old Latin Bible of the Gospel of Luke and Matthew. Her lecture is: The new edition of the Old Latin Synoptic Gospels: What do these texts tell us about early Christianity?
The T.V. Moore Lecture Series, taking place April 8 on the SFTS campus from 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., will explore all of these questions. Join our esteemed panel for a day of insight and discovery. Registration is encouraged – click here.