Professor David Parker lectures at the Vatican

Birmingham's Professor Emeritus David Parker OBE will deliver the Stephen Pisano Lecture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute today

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David Parker lecturing on an earlier occasion

The founder of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, Professor David Parker OBE, will be giving the Stephen Pisano Memorial Lecture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome this morning (Thursday 25th October 2023).

Entitled "Textual Variation: The Development and Theology of John's Gospel", the lecture will be livestreamed on the Biblical Institute's YouTube Channel and remain available there after it has been delivered.

Professor Parker and the late Professor Pisano were colleagues on the editorial committee of the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament and the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece.

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Prof. Stephen Pisano (far right) with other members of the UBS editorial committee in 2018.

The poster for Professor Parker's lecture is available on the webpage of the Pontifical Biblical Institute.