La Bibbia Insegna Uguaglianza di Uomo e Donna

I am delighted that Angela Rolston has made available an Italian translation of the entire text, including footnotes, of my article summarizing the argument of Man and Woman, One in Christ, “The Bible Teaches the Equal Standing of Man and Woman” published in Priscilla Papers 29,  number 1 (Winter 2015) 3-10. https://pbpayne.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/La-Bibbia-insegna-uguaglianza-di-uomo-e-donna.pdf

NTS site: P.B. Payne “Vaticanus distigme-obelos” is its “Most read” article

The home page of New Testament Studies at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/new-testament-studies states:

“Most read  Article:   Vaticanus Distigme-obelos Symbols Marking Added Text, Including 1 Corinthians 14.34-5

  Philip B. Payne

  New Testament Studies, Volume 63, Issue 4″

The NTS web site also lists this article as already having reached a media ranking of 19. There is only one issue in New Testament Studies in the past ten years for which the sum of the media rankings of all the articles in that issue (up to 10 articles) combined is higher than the media ranking of this one article.

Discovery of a Ninth Distigme-obelos Symbol in Codex Vaticanus

I am grateful to Richard Fellows for pointing out to me that there is a ninth instance of the distigme-obelos symbol in Codex Vaticanus at Mark 6:11 (1285B) besides the eight identified in my New Testament Studies article. It both extends into the margin farther and is longer than any of the twenty undisputed paragraphoi adjacent to a distigme. Its following line of text also has a gap in it at the exact location of a fifteen-word block of later-added text. Like all five other distigme-obelos symbols in the Gospels of Vaticanus, the added text is not in the Vaticanus body text. (more…)