[B-Greek] Biblical Manuscripts - a Challenge

Sarah Madden sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
Sat Dec 22 08:03:13 EST 2007


To the B-Greek community:

I'm offering a challenge to someone in the G-Greek community who has the
background (and time) to write a short piece for Wikipedia on biblical
manuscript types. Perhaps, as a professor or author, you already have
written something that could be excerpted for Wikipedia. (I know, I know,
how trustworthy is Wikipedia? But the truth is, many people read its
entries.)

Today, when I was surfing the Net to find a listing of uncials and
miniscules -- and to see what had been written about the dating and the
difference between them -- I found the best discussion of the topic was
written by a self-proclaimed atheist who is trying to refute Christianity!
In desperation, I kept surfing and found Wikipedia's entry on "Biblical
Manuscripts," but it's quite skeletal. Is there anyone in the B-Greek
community who could add something useful to the "Biblical Manuscripts" page
on Wikipedia? Wikipedia is ASKING for someone's input and provides
instructions for how to provide it! Note that there are already separate --
and exellent -- Wikipedia entries for papyri, uncials, and miniscules,
including complete lists of each type.

*==>Here's the page that could use your input (even a paragraph would be
useful, I'm sure!):<==
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Biblical_manuscripts



Here are the excellent pages that are quite thorough:

Papyri:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Testament_papyri  (even
includes a picture of a papyrus fragment)

Uncials:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Testament_codices

Miniscules: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Testament_minuscules


-- 
Sarah Madden
Maryland
sarah.r.madden at gmail.com



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