It's great to see this Syndicate symposium released, which I convened for Garrick Allen's recent book. Currently, you can see pieces by me & @sccarlson.bsky.social, but others by Saskia Dirkse, Jennifer Knust, & Juan Hernández will appear over the next few days.
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The Syndication is featuring a symposium on Garrick Allen's recent book, Words are Not Enough. My response is up first.
I am thankful for the opportunity to contribute to this symposium. I hope it will be inspirational to a new generation of scholars.
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More fun news: a paper I co-authored with Pasi Hyytiäinen and Tim Finney is now available as an advance article in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: doi.org/10.1093/llc/.... We investigate the validity of the contested paradigm of text-types using a battery of computational approaches. (1/8)
“Logosology” is not well-formed, should be “logology.”
If you have an active SBL membership (or access through your library), I strongly encourage you to check out this paper by @sccarlson.bsky.social. It's a great read!
Big news: my PhD thesis has passed examination, and the examiners have recommended that I be awarded my degree summa cum laude! Many thanks to the examiners for their generous feedback and to @sccarlson.bsky.social, @kycrabbe.bsky.social, and Rob Turnbull for four years of instruction and support.
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
The Text of 1 Peter in Polycarp and Irenaeus Stephen C. Carlson ABSTRACT: The second-century Polycarp is recognized as a witness to the text of 1 Peter, but his witness is not found in the Editio Critica Maior (ECM). Another second-century witness to the text of 1 Peter is Irenaeus, but only the witness of its Latin translation (IrLat) was cited in the ECM, despite the existence of an independent Armenian translation. In this article, I survey and resynthesize the criteria for identifying patristic quotations of the New Testament, apply them to Polycarp’sEpistle to the Philippians and Irenaeus’s Adversus haereses, and propose several updates to the patristic citations in the ECM for 1 Peter. Among these, both Polycarp and Irenaeus attest to a form of the text of 1 Pet 1:8 that strikingly disagrees with the critical text of the ECM and warrants further consideration.
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Proofs! Coming to a JBL near you
That was me and Paula Fridriksen at one SBL.
The skeptical people weren't status quo people.
Yes, she's sitting in the first row. Hoping she asks a question...
Oh yes: Jason Beduhn, Robyn Walsh, Paula Fredricksen, and Markus Vinzent.
Here's the #AARSBL25 panel discussion. Everyone on the panel, including would be allies, are skeptical.
Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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:
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The hardest stage
Come study with us! Ph.D. applications for this funding round are due 1 October 2025.
Congratulations to @joeymccollum.bsky.social for his timely submission of his most excellent dissertation on the text of Ephesians. It has been an absolute joy working with Joey over the past three and a half years and the floor feels a little emptier now that he's back home.
It’s proofs time! How about another piece on Papias, this time looking looking at his presbyters?
I did see you!
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.
In biology, phylogenetics reconstructs evolutionary relationships by analysing how traits are inherited and change over time.
The same technique is revealing the history of the New Testament
📜New research from MDAP's Robert Turnbull!
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I had the pleasure of reading a draft of this paper a while ago. Excited to see that it's now published! Go check it out!
My article on the Papias testimonium about Mark is now out, open access, in HTR!
In this piece, I interrogate the multilayered tradition about its composition and explore why authorship was imposed on it against its writer’s intent to remain anonymous.
DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S001...
No worries. I would probably accidentally say “booger” or “bugger” and embarrass myself.
Sorry, got cut off, meant to suggest pronouncing it like German instead of the French I would have first guessed.
Hinrich Boger, auch Böger, Bogher und Latinisert Henricus Flexor (* vor 1450 in Höxter; † 6. März 1505 in Rostock) war ein deutscher Dichter, Theologe und Humanist.
Thanks! We excited by this
I have now!