Booking open for Fourteenth Birmingham Colloquium

The Fourteenth Birmingham Colloquium will be on The Pauline Epistles and the Ancient Versions. Twenty-eight presenters will be coming to Birmingham from across the world to present research on topics ranging from the interpretation of specific biblical verses to the importance of specific language traditions. There will be papers on Coptic, Latin, Gothic, Ethiopic, Arabic and Caucasian Albanian, as well as several focussing on bilingual New Testament manuscripts. 

As with the last colloquium, we will attempt to livestream the papers to enable a wider audience to participate. In-person and online participants can now register online to attend the colloquium (booking closes on 28 February 2025). 

The Fourteenth Colloquium will be held in conjunction with the GALaCSy project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. This Anglo-German project is investigating the earliest translations of the Pauline Epistles.

The current academic programme is as follows:

Wednesday 9 April

• from 12.30pm Registration 
• 13.30 Welcome
• 13.35 Michael Dormandy (Innsbruck) – Text, Truth and Love: Tertullian’s Understanding of Church Discipline and his Text of 2 Cor 5.
• 14.00 Michał Marsałek (Leuven) – Changes in Augustine's Text of 1 Corinthians: An Analysis of Primary Citations
• 14.25 Alessandro Zampieri (Leuven) – The First Letter to the Corinthians in the Interpretation of Knowledge (NHC, XI,1).
• 14.50 Justin Hagerman (Lyon) – A Catalogue of Textual Variants: Using BiblIndex to Compare Occurrences of Paul’s Epistles to the Galatians and Philippians in Patristic Sources
• 15.45 Emanuele Scieri (Glasgow) – The Stichometry of Codex H: Making Sense of Sense-Lines in a Fragmentary Greek Witness to the Pauline Epistles
• 16.10 Nelson Hsieh (Cambridge) – Paragraph and Chapter Divisions in Early Greek and Latin Manuscripts of Ephesians
• 16.35 Jacopo Marcon (Berlin) – Extracting, rephrasing, expanding Paul in Byzantium: GA 605, Arethas of Caesarea and the "Abridged Version"
• 17.00 Clark Bates (Summerville, SC) – New Testament Catenae as Retranslations of Paul: A Philological Assessment of Grammatical Changes in the Ps.-Oecumenian Catenae on the Pauline Epistles

Thursday 10 April

• 9.00 Frank Feder (Göttingen) – The Mesokemic Coptic Version of the Pauline Epistles
• 9.30 Julien Delhez (Leuven/Göttingen) – A Greek-Coptic bilingual manuscript of the Pauline Epistles (sa542)
• 10.00 Samuel Moawad (Münster) – Transmission and Translation Technique of the Bohairic New Testament
• 11.00 Oliver Norris (Birmingham) – The Latin Textual Tradition of Galatians
• 11.30 Anna Persig (Leuven) – VL 135 and its relationship with the bilingual tradition of 1 Corinthians
• 12.00 Peter Montoro (Cambridge) – Excavating the Textual Layers of GA 06 in Romans
  
  
• 13.45 Tommy Wasserman (Örebro) – Do We Have Peace Now? Revisiting a Crux in Romans 5:1
• 14.15 Rob Turnbull and Joey McCollum (Melbourne) – An Early Arabic Ephesians
• 14.45 Duane McCrory (Birmingham) – Manuscript Sinai Arabic 155: An Important Arabic Witness to the Text of Romans
• 15.45 Andrew Patton and Martina Vercesi (Leuven) – Revised and Rewritten: The Greek and Latin Texts of GA 629 in the Pauline Epistles
• 16.35 Alec Fisher (Birmingham) – The Accommodated Latin Text of Codex Boernerianus
• 17.00 Maxime Maleux (Leuven) – Romans for Goths and Copts: Exploring the Value of Bilingual Manuscripts for NT Textual Criticism

Friday 11 April

• 9.00 Simon Crisp (Birmingham) – St Paul in the Caucasus: Lectionary Readings from the Pauline Epistles in the Language of the Caucasian Albanians.
• 9.25 Curt Niccum (Abilene, TX) – Lacuna Mutata: Gaps in the Ethiopic Transmission History of Paul
• 9.50 Carla Falluomini (Perugia) – The Gothic Readings of Galatians and Ephesians
• 10.45 Lily Su (Glasgow) – Gatekeeping the Pastoral Epistles: 1 Timothy as a Case Study
• 11.10 Ian Mills (Hamilton, NY) – Paul’s “Empty Words” (vaniloquia). Issues of Method in Editing the Pseudo-Pauline Epistle to the Laodiceans.
• 11.35 Christina Kreinecker (Leuven) – Who is divided? 1Cor. 7:33–34 revisited through Latin evidence

This programme is also available for download as a PDF [555 KB].

Dinners are planned for the Wednesday and Thursday evenings, along with an excursion to Gloucester Cathedral (including a visit to examine manuscripts in the Cathedral Archive) on the afternoon of Friday 11 April.

If you have any questions, please contact the organisers.