TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism

Welcome

TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism (ISSN 1089-7747) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal dedicated to study of the Jewish and Christian biblical texts. Details of the journal are provided on the About page while current and past issues are accessed through the Contents page.

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About TC

TC is an online publication of the SBL and is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Users are permitted to download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all TC articles. Articles may not be reproduced without permission.

TC publishes full-length scholarly articles, shorter notes, project reports, and reviews of works in the field of biblical textual criticism. Articles on any aspect of the textual criticism of the Jewish and Christian scriptures (including extracanonical and related literature) are welcome, and contributions that transcend the traditional boundary between Hebrew Bible and New Testament textual criticism are especially encouraged. We also invite articles discussing the relationship between textual criticism and other disciplines.

TC uses a Permanent URL so that readers will always be able to find it regardless of which server is the current host. Please use the following PURL when linking to TC and its contents:

http://purl.org/TC

Submissions

Submissions, which may be in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish, should conform to the SBL Handbook of Style second edition of 2014. The Chicago Manual of Style should be consulted in cases where the SBL handbook does not provide guidance. Articles may be submitted in any standard file format and should use Unicode for those ancient scripts covered by the Unicode Standard. Accepted articles are subjected to a peer-review process before publication. Articles are normally published in Portable Document Format (PDF) but may be published as HTML in some cases. Please direct all submissions to the following email address:

Book Reviews

One goal of TC is to provide informative and timely reviews of books in the field of biblical textual criticism. Anyone who would like to submit a book for review or to volunteer as a reviewer may contact the TC book review editors here:

Works without an ISBN or ISSN are not accepted for review.

Editors

General Editor: Jan Krans is a member of the Faculty of Theology at VU University Amsterdam. His research interests include the history of interpretation, and New Testament textual criticism. He wrote a PhD dissertation on the differing approaches of Erasmus and Beza to conjectural emendation of the biblical text.
Assistant Editors: Tommy Wasserman is Academic Dean and Lecturer in New Testament at Örebro School of Theology in Sweden. He wrote a PhD dissertation on the text and transmission of the Epistle of Jude.; Juha Pakkala is docent and university lecturer at the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Helsinki. His research interests include methodological questions, editorial techniques, documented (“empirical”) evidence, redaction criticism, history of religions, and archaeology of the Levant.
Book Review Editor: Thomas J. Kraus is a private scholar. His main research interests are, among other things, early Christian manuscripts, the issue of (il)literacy in late Antiquity, the Septuagint Psalms, and everything about book culture in Antiquity. He wrote a PhD dissertation on the language and style of Second Peter.
Assistant Book Review Editor: Heike Hötzinger is a research associate at the University of Regensburg. She wrote a PhD dissertation on the history of the people of God and Christian identity.
Technical Editor: Tim Finney is a computer programmer and New Testament textual researcher. He wrote a PhD dissertation on the Ancient Witnesses of the Epistle to the Hebrews.

Editorial Board

James R. Adair Jr, University of Texas at San Antonio
Bob Buller, Society of Biblical Literature
Johann Cook, University of Stellenbosch
Claude E. Cox, McMaster Divinity College
Sidnie White Crawford, University of Nebraska
Bart D. Ehrman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Leonard J. Greenspoon, Creighton University
Peter M. Head, University of Cambridge
Michael W. Holmes, Bethel College
L. W. Hurtado, University of Edinburgh
Arie van der Kooij, Universiteit Leiden
Johan Lust, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Tobias Nicklas, Universität Regensburg
John W. Olley, Vose Seminary
Melvin K. H. Peters, Duke University
Albert Pietersma, University of Toronto
Klaus Wachtel, Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung

TC was founded by James R. Adair Jr in 1996, only three years after the advent of the World Wide Web. Dr Adair continued to serve as General Editor until 2009.

Acknowledgments

This site uses JavaScript and CSS styling created by Andreas Blixt. The uncial font used for the TC title was designed by George Williams.

Extras

Discovery of the Sinaitic Manuscript: Tischendorf's own account of the discovery.
TC Links: Links to web sites relating to biblical textual criticism.
TC Downloads: TC's collection of downloadable items.