Affiliated lecturers

Dr PM Head

Affiliated Lecturer; Sir Kirby Laing Senior Lecturer in New Testament, Tyndale House; and Fellow of St Edmund's College

Courses taught this academic year

• Intermediate Greek (B1b): Mark's Gospel
• New Testament Christology (C3)
• Advanced Greek (C1b): Romans 5-8
• New Testament Textual Criticism
• Greek Palaeography (MPhil)

Current research interests

• Early manuscripts of the Greek New Testament and Textual Criticism
• Epistolary Communication in Early Christianity
• History of New Testament Scholarship

Selected recent publications

'The Nazi Quest for an Aryan Jesus' Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 2 (2004), 56-90.

'A New Manuscript of Jeremiah in Greek according to the Lucianic Recension (de Hamel MS 391; Rahlfs 897)' Bulletin of the International Organization of Septuagint and Cognate Studies 36 (2003), 27-37.

'Is P4, P64 and P67 the Oldest Manuscript of the Four Gospels? A Response to T.C. Skeat' New Testament Studies 51 (2005) 450-457

'A Newly Discovered Manuscript of Luke's Gospel (de Hamel MS 386; Gregory-Aland 0312)' in New Testament Manuscripts: Their Texts and Their World (eds Thomas J. Kraus & Tobias Nicklas; Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 2; Leiden: E.J. Brill; 2006), 105-120.

'The Gospel of Judas and the Qarara Codices: Some Preliminary Observations' Tyndale Bulletin 58.1 (2007), 1-23.

'Scribal Behaviour and Theological Tendencies in Singular Readings in P. Bodmer II (P66)' in Textual Variation: Theological and Social Tendencies? The Fifth Birmingham Colloquium on New Testament Textual Criticism (eds H.A.G. Houghton & D.C. Parker; Texts and Studies, Third Series; Gorgias Press, 2008), 55-74.

'Five New Testament Manuscripts: Recently Discovered Fragments in a Private Collection in Cambridge' Journal of Theological Studies 59 (2008), 520-545.

'The Gospel of Mark in Codex Sinaiticus: Textual and Reception-Historical Considerations' TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism (SBL on-line journal) 13 (October 2008), 1-38.

'Named Letter-Carriers among the Oxyrhynchus Papyri' Journal for the Study of the New Testament 31.3 (2009), 279-299.

'Letter Carriers in the Ancient Jewish Epistolary Material' Jewish and Christian Scripture as Artifact and Canon (eds. C.A. Evans & H.D. Zacharias; SSEJC 13; LNTS 70; London: T & T Clark / Continuum, 2009), 203-219.

Contact details

Tyndale House
36 Selwyn Gardens
Cambridge CB3 9BA
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Tel.: (+44) 01223 566601
Fax: (+44) 01223 566608

Email: pmh15@cam.ac.uk