>Scholars and students working with the Greek text of the New Testament will be interested in reading this press release from Beth Bidlack, Bibliographer for Religion and Philosophy at the University of Chicago Library.

Beth wrote:

“I wanted to make [you] aware of a growing digital collection here at the University of Chicago Library: the Goodspeed NT Manuscript Collection. For more on the Collection and the digitization project, see http://goodspeed.lib.uchicago.edu/.”

“Initially, a team of University of Chicago faculty, library and technical staff collaborated to digitize University of Chicago ms. 972, “Archaic Mark,” for use in a course taught by Professor Margaret Mitchell. Producing this digital codex was the first step in a larger project to create a digital collection of 65 complete Greek, Syriac, Ethiopic, Armenian and Latin manuscripts ranging in date from the 7th to the 19th century. The University of Chicago Library recently received an IMLS National Leadership Grant for this work. Professor Mitchell’s course provided evidence of the potential for innovative teaching using original artifacts in conjunction with digital learning objects and course management software.”

“Currently, we are digitizing the 17th century Elizabeth Day McCormick Apocalypse, which consists of a vernacular Greek translation with commentary and 70 color illustrations. The original and digital versions of the manuscript will be used this fall in a course taught by Professor Hans-Josef Klauck at the University of Chicago.”

This is indeed good news for those involved in doing research in this field.  I encourage you to visit the site by clicking on the link above.

Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary