GA 2685 in Romans: A Close Relative of the 6-424KC/1739/1881/1908K Cluster of Witnesses evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2026/03/ga-2...

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)

A great piece on my PhD research was just published on ACU Impact (www.impact.acu.edu.au/global/from-...)! Menios Constantinou was a fantastic interviewer, and he made an engaging story from my responses. The piece gives an accessible summary of how I use Bayesian phylogenetics for text-criticism.

Exciting news! Voting for the 2025 Digital Humanities Awards has officially opened, and the teiphy software I co-developed for converting TEI XML collations to inputs for various phylogenetic analysis programs is a candidate for Best DH Tool or Suite of Tools! Please spread the word and vote!

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...

Peter Montoro just wrote a great post on the ETC blog (evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2026/03/ga-2...) discussing an important textual relationship he identified between a little-known manuscript and a well-known family of manuscripts that preserve an early text of the Pauline Epistles.

All the CSEL volumes prior to 2010 now available in PDF online. This is really going to bring the CSEL series right to the front of everyone's minds. Someone over there is being very clever.

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.

How did early readers think about the relationship between the gospels? Repost to enter a drawing to win a free book.

Hoping to make it to this one at noon (EST) tomorrow! @davidaflood.com is doing fantastic working building digital humanities tools. If you work in New Testament textual criticism, you're probably already familiar with his work!

#onthisday Following up Zach Butler's new post for us yesterday, a year ago, in his post on January 14th 2025, Zach introduced to us Apatosaurus, a tool created by David Flood (Harvard) for creating, editing, visualizing, and analyzing digital apparatus. 🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/01/14/a...

My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com

I'm happy to announce two big updates to the website for the Biblical Disability project (PI @kycrabbe.bsky.social): (1) I've completed our coverage of early Christian and modern reception data for NT passages related to disability. (We hope to crowdsource further reception data in the future!)

Newly published @bbaw.bsky.social in our series “Texte und Untersuchungen”: Clark R. Bates, The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Ephesians Text, Translation, and Commentary www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Wish I could've been there in person! It looks like the talk went wonderfully! 😄

I look forward to eleven more days of this! @brentniedergall.bsky.social is a fantastic colleague, and he frequently posts great stuff on his blog!

We now have a website for the project I've been working on the with Garrick Allen, Emanuele Scieri, and Maxim Venetskov on Codex H, the manuscript preserving the earliest Greek evidence of the Euthalian annotation and presentation system for the New Testament. codexh.arts.gla.ac.uk#/home 1/2

No #AARSBL25 for me, but @annakawm.bsky.social and I are having a wonderful time visiting my family through Thanksgiving! 😄 We joined my mom on the assembly line for (early) Christmas cookies a couple days ago.

The #CHR2025 proceedings are now freely available online! They include the paper that @sofiemoors.bsky.social and I wrote on applying Bayesian phylogenetics to the medieval Dutch Martijn Trilogy. You can check out our paper at doi.org/10.63744/vBR...!

Wish I could attend in person! If you're going to be at #CHR2025 this December, you should go to Session 2A on Wednesday to hear @sofiemoors.bsky.social discuss how we applied Bayesian phylogenetics to a medieval Dutch text!

I'm excited to share that the paper I co-authored with @sofiemoors.bsky.social, "From a Computer-Assisted Stemma to a Phylogenetic Tree: The Medieval Dutch Martijn Trilogy by Jacob van Maerlant," has been accepted for the #CHR2025 conference! Thanks to the anonymous referees for their kind feedback!

It’s almost October! Join us for NASSCAL’s First Friday Workshop with Ian Mills. @nasscal.bsky.social

I haven't yet left Academia.edu, but I don't plan to accept their new terms of service. Since others have been sharing their new accounts on Knowledge Commons, I thought I might also share that I've had an account on there for a while now: hcommons.org/members/jjmc.... Hope to see you there!

This may be a shot in the dark, but for anyone at the @teiconsortium.bsky.social conference in Kraków who knows Koine Greek: I'd love to get a few pictures of some New Testament manuscripts at the Jagiellonian Library. If you're able to help out, please reply here, and I'll send you details!

Some valuable perspective from my colleague Jonathan Zecher on the meaning of martyrdom and its relevance to a contentious political topic.

ACU is a spectacular place to study, and I was able to move to Australia and do my research there debt-free thanks to generous funding! If you're interested in doing a PhD, especially in biblical studies or church history, you should apply!

Please join us for the next meeting in our 2025 BECS Global online seminar series here at ACU/IRCI, with Dr Amelia Brown (MQ/American Academy at Athens) on “When Early Christianity met Imperial Power: New Attributes of Roman Emperors from Constantine I to Theodosius.”

Issue 67.4 of #NovumTestamentum is out! From salt in Matthew to the History of the Codex Alexandrinus, this issue covers it all! Check it out here: brill.com/view/journal... 📜 #CriticalBible

This is some fantastic research on an important NT manuscript, and it shows just how crucial paratexts can be in uncovering the history and likely origins of textual witnesses! Give it a read!

It's done: I've submitted my PhD thesis on the text and transmission history of Ephesians! It will probably be two months or more before I receive the external reviewers' feedback and can share a final version with people, but for now, I can share the title and abstract pages!

I'm excited to announce that I've accepted a postdoctoral scholarship at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! I'll be expanding on my PhD research on the tradition of Ephesians and contributing to the BICROSS project (theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...). I look forward to joining the team in January!

Dear colleagues, my new book on Mark's ending is now available for free (Open Access) thanks to the @snsf.ch Open Access grant number 235752. Please feel free to download and read. Enjoy! doi.org/10.1163/9789...

The 2025 Semester 2 schedule for the BECS Global Seminar is set, with presentations by Bernadette Brooten (Brandeis), Amelia Brown (MQ and AAA), Paul Trebilco (Otago), Ben Edsall (ACU), and Paul Roche (Sydney).

Huh, I guess they have achieved PhD-level consciousness.

The results are in, and I'm pleased to announce that Emily Fero-Kovassy is the Runner-up of this year's 3-Minute Thesis competition (and the recipient of $2,000)! Congrats to her and all of the placing ACU finalists!

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.

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!

A new release of teiphy (v0.1.23) has recently been published, adding support for further tabular formats in conjunction with the feature additions in v0.1.22! You can access the code at github.com/jjmccollum/t... or install the latest version with pip install teiphy --upgrade

It's time again for ACU's 3-Minute Thesis competition! We have five finalists this year, including a fantastic presentation on purity and immersion in second-temple Judaism by my colleague Emily Fero-Kovassy. See the videos and cast your People's Choice vote at acu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...!

To anyone else who has been experiencing crashes in @vscode.dev due to out-of-memory errors like I have, the bug has been fixed in the latest VS Code Insiders release at code.visualstudio.com/insiders/! Hopefully an update to VS Code with this fix will be released soon.

Publication day! It’s Open Access too so you can download a copy here: brill.com/display/titl...

Good news everyone! MDAP's Robert Turnbull has joined the ERC-COG BICROSS project team @KU_Leuven, exploring multilingual manuscripts and cross-language interactions using AI and other digital tools. Read more go.unimelb.edu.au/u5cp Rob's site robturnbull.com BICROSS theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...

Coming soon in Open Access (release date this July)! brill.com/display/titl...

Have you heard of this one, @sccarlson.bsky.social?

An exciting new release (v0.1.22) of teiphy is now available! The new features in this release are all about tabular outputs, and I had fun putting them together. Check out the code and docs at github.com/jjmccollum/t...! (1/8)

I can tell you from experience that the IRCI is a beautiful place to work! Don't miss this opportunity!

I'm not eligible for this one, but if you got or are close to getting a PhD in the UK and are looking for a postdoc, especially in New Testament textual criticism, the University of Birmingham is a great place to be!

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)