The first results of using UV light to recover text on the damaged folios of Biblioteca Angelica gr. 116: 'Prolegomena to a new edition of Didymus (?), De Trinitate: With a special focus on the first three folios of Biblioteca Angelica gr. 116'
I have recently joined the editorial board of the journal Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum, which has also just become fully open access for all future issues. If you are doing research on ancient Christianity, please consider sending submissions our way! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
NAPS members whose membership is current should have received an email today about registration for the 2026 conference. If you didn't receive the email, make sure your membership hasn't lapsed. The program can be found here: custom.cvent.com/DADF18846EBF...
Congratulations!
Come to Nijmegen and be my colleague! 3-year postdoc on ethnicity and (in)equality in early Christianity, supervised by @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social. All I can say is we are a great group of people and Nijmegen is a pretty good place to live.
In case you haven't yet heard about it, there is an interesting new project on 'Ethnicity and (In)Equality in Early Christianity' being led by Matthijs den Dulk (Radboud University). Currently hiring for a 3-year postdoc. Application deadline is 8 March.
www.eiec.info/home
This was published in the dead week between Christmas and New Year’s. If you work in education & were, reasonably, taking a break, maybe you missed it.
Don’t miss it.
Maybe, maybe not. Time will tell!
We've just finished marking the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. Is it too early to start thinking about the upcoming 1600th anniversary of the Council of Ephesus? Here's a start.
www.academia.edu/145809087/A_...
JOB OPENING: Associate Dean (Research), Theology and Philosophy
Seeking an academic for high-level academic leadership across the faculty, operating within a University-wide research strategy focused on high quality, high impact and innovative research.
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It’s publication day! I decided 11 years ago I wanted to do this project and began working on it eight years ago, so it’s gratifying to reach this point. Thanks to all who helped us bring it to fruition.
Please reskeet: CFP is open for the North American Patristics Society meeting, May 21-23, 2026 in Chicago
Submit abstracts either for the general call or to a pre-arranged theme, or you can submit a whole planned session!
Deadline is Nov 19th, details at link:
www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...
The oldest Jewish cemetery in the UK, dating back to the Norman Conquest, was just discovered. www.jpost.com/history/arti...
There is still one week to go before the application deadline for our two job openings in biblical and early Christian studies (15 August). Please spread the word! I would be glad to speak with anyone who has questions about the positions.
My associate supervisor Rob Turnbull has written an exciting and accessible report on the research he's been doing! He recently published his PhD dissertation (brill.com/display/titl...), and he's currently applying phylogenetic methods to texts beyond the New Testament.
Back in my happy place at the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome with the reading room all to myself today.
11th July is the feast of St Benedict and here is the earliest extant copy of the Rule of St Benedict.
Bodleian Library MS. Hatton 48; Rule of St. Benedict; c.700 CE (?); England (Canterbury?); f.1r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
I can tell you from experience that the IRCI is a beautiful place to work! Don't miss this opportunity!
I am delighted to announce the IRCI has 2 job openings in early Christianity (specialisation open, research-focus, early career). Closing date 15 Aug. Contact me with any questions. We hope you'll consider joining our excellent group of scholars!
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A small discovery: the Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität includes an entry for εὐάγγελμα with a single ref: Didymus, De Trin 1.29.8. The term shows up nowhere else in TLG. The ms actually reads ἐπαγγέλματα which was misread in the 1769 editio princeps and a new ed in 1975.
So far the standard version of Copilot (@msftresearch.bsky.social) can't transcribe an 11th c Greek manuscript and in fact made up a completely different text it claimed was the transcription. Seems to have picked up βασιλέα from the first line, misread it as a similar word, and then ran with it.
So, here's the webpage of our project on Gospel harmonies. I will be working with a wonderful advisory board, including my wonderful Doktormutter @joantaylor.bsky.social, and @mcrawford.bsky.social .
mf.no/en/ungos
I asked one of supervisors about this (he'd spent some time at Saint Catherine's), and he responded with some relieving news. The Greek papers seem to have gotten the story wrong: newsprime.gr/sina-den-gin... (I had to use Google Translate on the page)
Spotted today at the Vatican Museums. An unusual depiction of the evangelists as oarsmen in a boat with Christ at the helm. Matthew is missing but we have John, Luke, and Mark, the so-called ‘Western’ order of the gospels.
I am delighted to announce that I have received a fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation for a research stay in Tübingen to produce an edition of The Emperor Julian's Against the Galileans and to study its 20th c. reception, including a German translation from the Third Reich.
If you like manuscripts, there's lots of interesting stuff in this new open access volume.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Registration is still open for our Makarios conference on Love of Neighbor and Human Flourishing (deadline 15 May) which will take place at ACU’s Rome campus in partnership with Baylor, Harvard, and Boston College! >
