Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Testament of Our Lord in Galilee. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

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...

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

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...

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].

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

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

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...

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

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-...

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....

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...

Apocrypha lovers, please join us next Friday, April 4th at 12EDT for our next First Friday workshop! We’ll be discussing a piece by Triantafillos Kantartzis on focalization and witnesses in the Acta Pilati. See you there!

With the completion of the entry on the Book of Mary's Repose, the e-Clavis has reached 350 entries. Congratulations (and much gratitude) to everyone who has helped make the site such a success.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Gospel of Peter, compiled by Mark Bilby (@mgbilby.bsky.social). www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

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

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Passion of Longinus (the centurion at the cross and the soldier who pierced the side of Jesus) www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

Happening in about an hour! See you all there!

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Handing Over of Pontius Pilate (Paradosis Pilati). www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Epistle of Tiberius to Pilate. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

NASSCAL is officially on Instagram! If you like (or merely tolerate) IG & love apocrypha, please take a moment to give us a follow! www.instagram.com/nasscal_apoc...

The NASSCAL First Fridays Workshop begins its Winter 2025 season with Acacia Chan (University of Texas): “Cloudy with a Chance of Apostles: Cloud Travel in Acts of Andrew and Matthias.” The workshop takes place via Zoom on February 7 at 12 pm EST.

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Report of Pilate (Anaphora Pilati). www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

The call for papers for the 2025 SBL Annual Meeting Christian Apocrypha Section is now up (details in image below). Any questions or inquiries contact program unit chair @tonyburke.bsky.social.

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Homily on Mary the God-Bearer, compiled by Marcin Krawczuk. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Dream of Nero (a much-neglected text that has never been published in a modern language). www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

My recent paper on defining "Christian apocrypha" at the GORE Workshop hosted by Beyond Canon, 2-3 December 2024. www.apocryphicity.ca/2025/01/06/t...

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Hypomnema on John the Baptist by Symeon Metaphrastes. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

Looking to wear your love of all things apocrypha on your sleeve this holiday season? Look no further! Please visit NASSCAL's redbubble site where you can find shirts, mugs, pillows repping all of your favorite ancient apocryphal stories!

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Homily on Titus, by Andrew of Crete, compiled by Michael Scott Robertson. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Book of the Nativity of the Savior (Latin Infancy Gospel), compiled by Bradley Rice. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ On the Honor of the Archangel Michael, by Pseudo-John Chrysostom, compiled by Florian Graz. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Prayer of Mary at Bartos, compiled by Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...