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The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM)

CSNTM is a non-profit organization dedicated to digitally preserving Greek New Testament manuscripts.
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08/26/2026

Meet this year’s intern cohort!

Over the past two decades, CSNTM has trained scores of interns who have gone on to serve as scholars, professors, translators, missionaries, pastors, and more, helping people read God’s Word faithfully and strengthening the global Church.

By helping us meet our $25,000 match during North Texas Giving Day, you can invest in the training of this year’s three interns, and in the future of biblical scholarship.

Curious why we’ve hidden the identities of two of our interns? Learn more at the link!

📅 Early giving starts tomorrow!

Visit the link to get to know this year’s interns and invest in their training: https://buff.ly/42pG82T

08/25/2026

Before we can preserve ancient copies of God’s Word, we have to build the technology that will capture them.

Cases are unpacked. Cameras and lights are assembled. Every piece of equipment is carefully positioned and calibrated—all before we capture a single image.

This is what happens behind the scenes of manuscript digitization.

How long do you think it takes to build the setup?

08/24/2026

GA 473 is an 11th-century Gospels manuscript containing most of the text of the four Gospels. The codex also includes a summary synaxarion, a summary menologion, and other liturgical features.

CSNTM digitized GA 473 at Lambeth Palace Library in 2022.

View images in our digital collection: https://buff.ly/3HRbWRf

08/21/2026

Join our scholars at Prestoncrest Church of Christ (Dallas, TX) on Sep. 13, 20, 27 & Oct. 4 for a 4-week special series of our Text to Translation: The Story of the New Testament lecture series!

If you’ve ever wondered how we got from Jesus walking the earth to the Bible you hold today, this is for you.

See more details and registration info here: https://prestoncrest.org/events/csntm/

08/19/2026

Our equipment is officially packed up and on its way to Oslo, Norway!

In just a few days, our research team will kick off a nearly three-week expedition in partnership with the Oslo Cathedral School Rare Book & Manuscript Library to digitize a significant collection of manuscripts.

Included on the list? Over 30 non-New Testament scrolls.

Can you guess what they could be? Drop your thoughts in the comments!

08/18/2026

Revelation 21:6 contains a variation unit featuring at least five variant readings of grammatical and theological significance. The variant is at the beginning of the quote from Jesus, which is often translated as “It is done. I am the Alpha and Omega….”

One of the main issues here concerns the verbal forms of γίνομαι. Some manuscripts read the third-person singular γέγονεν, others preserve the plural forms γέγοναν or γεγόνασιν, and early manuscripts and the Byzantine tradition have the first-person singular γέγονα.

Interestingly, Codex Sinaiticus (א GA 01) has two readings by way of correction: while the first scribe wrote the first-person singular, a corrector changed it to the third-person plural.

If the third-person singular or plural are adopted, the text reads “It is done” or “These things are done.” However, the first-person form γέγονα has superior manuscript support, so the editors of ECM Revelation printed this form in the edition.

Thus, the critical text now has Jesus saying: “I have become the Alpha and Omega

08/17/2026

GA 2604 is a Gospels minuscule manuscript that CSNTM photographed at the Chester Beatty in 2013.

The codex contains numerous notable features, including commentary, the Eusebian Canons, Eusebius' letter to Carpianus written in a cross-shaped layout, gilded author portraits (including two of John), and the absence of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53–8:11).

Explore more images: https://buff.ly/Wv8daOG

08/14/2026

Earlier this month, our team had the incredible opportunity to see P52 at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas!

About the size of a credit card, this tiny fragment is perhaps the earliest surviving New Testament manuscript. Dating to the second century, it preserves portions of John 18.

Seeing this manuscript up close was a powerful reminder of the centuries-long history of preserving the New Testament text, and of the countless men and women who faithfully passed God’s Word from one generation to the next.

It’s a mission we’re honored to continue in the digital age!

08/13/2026

Explore the latest additions to our Digital Manuscript Collection!

This week’s new manuscripts include a Greek prayer book, a Gospel lectionary, and a fragmentary New Testament manuscript preserving traces of both Coptic and Arabic text.

Swipe to learn more, then visit the link below to explore high-resolution images of these manuscripts, digitally preserved and made available through CSNTM sponsorship.

🔗 https://collections.csntm.org/search?artifact_list=newly-added-manuscripts

08/12/2026

Last week, imaging expert Ken Boydston spent four days at CSNTM training our team in multispectral imaging (MSI)—an advanced digitization technology that uses different wavelengths of light to capture highly accurate data about artifacts for future study and preservation, while also revealing details that are invisible to the naked eye.

Now, our research team is preparing to take this technology to Oslo, Norway, where they will digitize more than 30 highly significant manuscripts.

We’re excited to share more about these manuscripts—and what MSI may reveal—in the days to come!

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