NASSCAL's October First Friday workshop will feature Ian Mills, with his paper "Canonizing Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans." See the poster below for details on how to join.

We are thrilled to announce NASSCAL's first in-person gathering since 2018. Hosted once again by the University of Virginia. Come and tell us about your work. Details at www.nasscal.com/meetings/

Just arrived. Excited to dig in.

This overlooked text is the prologue to Epistle of the Apostles in Ethiopic MSS.

Yesterday paper's recording: Ángel Narro (València), •Thecla’s Increasing Authority from Early Christianity to Late Antiquity• genaut.univie.ac.at @angelnarro.bsky.social

The First Discovery of the Lost Scriptures www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Fifteen Signs before Judgment, compiled by @brandonwhawk.bsky.social. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

The NASSCAL First Fridays Workshop 2025/2026 season begins Sept. 5 at 12:00 (EDT) with Julia Snyder's essay "Apostles Behaving Badly? Violence in the Acts of Philip." Contact us if you would like to participate.

I was interviewed on the Patristica podcast (youtu.be/AVKCrvZODf4) about the Apocrypha of Symeon Metaphrastes Project (a collaborative collection of translations; information here: www.tonyburke.ca/the-apocryph...).

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Conversion of Bartholomew. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

This arrived unexpectedly today!

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha: On the Deaths of the Apostles, an apostolic list in Syriac and Sogdian. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

Added to e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha ~ Teaching of the Lord, compiled by @chancebonar.bsky.social . www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

NASSCAL is looking for scholars who are interested in presenting their research on Christian apocrypha at the First Fridays Workshop during the 25-26 academic year. Workshops are on zoom on the first Friday of the month at 12pm Eastern (US) time. Contact Janet Spittler at [email protected].

Our final month in Regensburg: one last country to visit and a book to finish. Only one of those is accomplished. www.apocryphicity.ca/2025/08/02/m...

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Life of Gerasimos of Emesa, compiled by Slavomír Čéplö www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

It's publication day for the Pearlsong! Syriac and two Greek texts, each w/ Eng. tr., + glossaries and commentary. Just $40! The paper, cover & jacket, and printing are fabulous! If you read it, I hope you have as much fun with it as I did writing it!

The program for the SBL Christian Apocrypha section has been posted to the new page dedicated to the section on the NASSCAL web site: www.nasscal.com/society-of-b...

June in Regensburg (okay, only a week or so in Regensburg, the rest of the time was Ireland, Bratislava, Budapest, and Oslo). But Regensburg did treat us to Just Like Abba! www.apocryphicity.ca/2025/07/02/m...

Coming soon: the latest volume in NASSCAL's Early Christian Apocrypha series.

𝗔𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝗵𝗮 𝟯𝟰 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯, 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹. 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰) More info: bit.ly/44kl2PV #Bible #EarlyChristianity #ChurchHistory #ReligiousStudies #Christology #Theology

Added to e-Clavis: Manuscripta apocryphorum ~ Tripoli, Dayr Sayyidat al-Balmand, 156 (1606), an Arabic miscellany containing Infancy Gospel Thomas, Six-Bks Dormition, and several apocryphal acts. Compiled by Slavomír Čéplö. www.nasscal.com/manuscripta-...

Travels and tribulations for the month of May, in which we saw Athens, Crete, and Santorini and I narrowly escaped imprisonment in Chicago. www.apocryphicity.ca/2025/06/01/m...

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Gospel of Marcion, compiled by Mark Bilby and Markus Vinzent. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

Added to e-Clavis: Materiae apocryphorum ~ Chapel of San Giovanni in Oleo, commemorating the location of John's boiling in oil. www.nasscal.com/materiae-apo...

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Acts of Pilate/Gospel of Nicodemus, compiled by Stephen Hopkins. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr....

Jim Davila shares a chapter from James R. Davila and Richard Bauckham (eds.), Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol.2, More Noncanonical Scriptures (Eerdmans, 2025). bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/des...

More work and play in Regensburg (and a trip to Dubrovnik). www.apocryphicity.ca/2025/05/03/m...

The final First Fridays Workshop of the 2024/2025 season features Sible de Blaauw discussing a martyrium commemorating the story of the apostle John being boiled in oil. Join us May 2.

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Homily on Mary Magdalene by Nicephorus Callistus. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

Visiting Pilate's final resting place and talking Infancy Thomas in Glasgow. www.apocryphicity.ca/2025/04/04/m...

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Life of Pilate (a medieval text incorporated into the Golden Legend). www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

Lily Vuong, “Beyond Boundaries: Scholarly Categories and the Apocryphal Mary in Text, Pictorial Art, and Iconography,” MTSR Online Publication Date: 20 Mar 2025

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Book of Mary's Repose (Liber Requiei Mariae), compiled by Stephen Shoemaker and Sergey Kim. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

York University is suspending admissions to 18 programs—including Indigenous Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies, and Environmental Biology. Are we seeing another Laurentian-style crisis? Today in Perspectives, Honor Brabazon weighs in on what’s at stake. perspectivesjournal.ca/program-cuts...

Here again is the 2025 call for papers for the SBL Christian Apocrypha program. Proposals are due by midnight 25 March.

Added to e-Clavis: Materiae apocryphorum ~ Longinus Triptych, Church of Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem). www.nasscal.com/materiae-apo...

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Gospel of Judas, compiled by David Brakke. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

My adventures in Regensburg continue with a side trip to Malta and a deep dive into apocryphal traditions about Longinus the Centurion. www.apocryphicity.ca/2025/03/03/m...

Announcing a new project on translating the apocryphal hypomnemata of Symeon Metaphrastes. Details here: www.tonyburke.ca/the-apocryph...

York University is canceling its Indigenous Studies program just two years after its first graduating class. More details here. www.facebook.com/712517164/po... #YorkUniversity #reconciliation #IndigenousStudies

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 4009 (a possible witness to the Gospel of Peter). Compiled by Mark Bilby. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

(1/11) URGENT: York University @YorkUniversity has suspended admissions to Religious Studies. This is a backdoor tactic to shut down the program without due process. This will ultimately be bad for York and everyone. #YUGOOD --we aren't.

For all friends of #apocrypha I have a special treat on my blog: A new early Arabic fragment (9th/10th century) of the Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin, translated on the basis of the longer Syriac version: medisi.hypotheses.org/6324

Please join us for NASSCAL‘s First Friday of March workshop with Philippe Therrien (Université Laval).

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Encomium on Longinus by Pseudo-Hesychius of Jerusalem. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

From Religious Studies at York Twitter account: The administration at York University has suspended admissions to the Religious Studies program . . . The faculty have written this statement. We ask you to will distribute it widely and write to York's administration to protest this decision.

York University is effectively starving out their fledgling Indigenous Studies program before it has had a chance to develop. Please read this letter from Indigenous Studies faculty. www.facebook.com/share/p/1ZDr...

York University has announced the temporary suspension of admission in 20 programs, including Religious Studies (in which I teach). The administration cannot shut down programs directly but they can starve them, which is clearly the intention. (1/5)