Variant Readings

Work on a recent article about the construction and date of P.Bodmer 14–15 had me thinking again about the manufacture of papyrus rolls.

In the process of studying the Antinoopolis Charioteers papyrus, I spent some time with other papyri containing texts related to the Alexander Romance.

The Alexander Romance (or The Life of Alexander of Macedon or the Life and Acts of Alexander, or The History of Alexander the Great, King of the Macedonians…) survives in hundreds of manuscript copies in several languages.

In an earlier post I noted the publication of an article in which I propose that the Antinoopolis Charioteers papyrus is a leaf from a codex containing an illustrated copy of the Alexander Romance.

One of the most famous illustrated papyri is a scrap that was found in a garbage heap in the Egyptian city of Antinoopolis.

The latest issue of Novum Testamentum has an article that I wrote on the production and date of P.Bodmer 14-15 (a.k.a.

I’ve had waxed tablets on my mind for the last few months.

I’m always very interested to see renderings of papyrus rolls in ancient art, whether it is in fresco, manuscript illumination, or carved stone.

Thanks to the several readers who pointed out that the early issues of The Cambridge Review are available at HathiTrust (for those in the US).

I continue to be puzzled by the problem of the purchase of the Nash Papyrus.

In my earlier post about a papyrus containing the Odyssey at Cambridge, I mentioned that this piece was purchased together with the Nash Papyrus, but I noted that I could not figure out the precise date of the purchase.

In the last couple days, the Cambridge University Library has been posting about a papyrus in their collection that contains a passage from the Odyssey.

I’ve been thinking quite a bit in recent years about the places where Roman books were stored and used.

When I began this blog back in 2017, the mysteries surrounding Hobby Lobby and its biblical manuscripts were really driving some aspects of my research.

A recent visit to the Jewish catacomb at Vigna Randanini got me thinking a little more about the iconography of Jewish scrolls (–thanks to Tony Keddie and the University of Texas at Austin for making the visit possible).

The latest issue of Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft contains an article I wrote on two papyrus folia from Oxyrhynchus.