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The Fifth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament will be held from 16-19 April 2007 in the Graduate Institute for Theology and Religion, Elmfield House, University of Birmingham.

The theme is:

"Textual Variation: Theological and Social Tendencies?"

Programme

Monday 16th April:
Registration from 4.00pm (Elmfield House)
7.30 pm: Opening address, followed by reception

Tuesday 17th April:
9.30 to 12.30: Papers
1.30 pm: Optional excursion to view the manuscript collections at Hereford Cathedral (including the Mappa Mundi)

Wednesday 18th April:
9.30 to 5.30: Papers
7.30pm: Optional Conference Dinner (University Staff House)

Thursday 19th April:
9.30 to 12.30: Papers. Colloquium finishes after Lunch (1.30pm)

Papers so far confirmed (revised 22.2.07)

A draft timetable for the paper presentations can now be seen here

Dr Philip Burton 'Christian Latin' or, why revisit the Sondersprache Hypothesis?
Dr Kent Clarke Eclecticism, Ecclesiasticism, or Sectarianism: The Dénouement of Traditional New Testament Textual Criticism in the Light of Qumran Studies
Dr W.J. Elliot A brief study of variations on proper names in lectionaries
Dr Richard Goode King or God? Towards an Anthropology of Text
Dr Dr Eberhard Güting Jewish Topics in Christian garb. On the textual criticism of the Fourth Gospel
Dr Peter Head title awaited
Dr Jenny Read-Heimerdinger and Dr Josep Rius-Camps The Theological Tendency of Luke's Work in Codex Bezae
Dr Wim Hendriks Misquoting Jesus: some further questions
Dr Peter Hill Never Quite Lost and not Altogether Found: Recovering readings from the Syriac Philoxenian Gospels
Dr Dirk Jongkind Scribal Variants in Sinaiticus: Vindication of Studying Singular Readings
Dr Jeff Kloha The Ethics of Sexuality and the Pauline Text
Dr Maria Konstantinidou Social variation in the biblical text of Chrysostom's Homilies on Titus
Prof. D.C. Parker Scribal tendencies and the mechanics of book production
Dr Ulrich Schmid Scribes and variants - towards a typology/sociology of both
Dr Klaus Wachtel Towards a redefinition of external criteria: the role of coherence in assessing the origin of variants
Dr Bill Warren Do You See What I See? Certainty, Probability, Possibility, and Improbability: the Need for Criteria in Determining Scribal Motivations in Variant Readings
Dr Tommy Wasserman Theological Creativity and Scribal Solutions in Jude

The booking form for the Colloquium is now available and can be downloaded here

Any questions may be addressed here.