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)

Apparently all the Greek manuscripts of the Library of the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial are now completely digitized, while the Arabic manuscripts are currently being newly catalogued. #Medievalsky #BookHistory

Coming to a Harvard Theological Review near you. (And it's open access!)

Good news: teiphy v0.1.21b has been released! (I had to fix some GitHub workflows that didn't work on release v0.1.21a.) It adds support for weighted variation units based on different variation categories, for use in @sccarlson.bsky.social's stemma software. Check it out: github.com/jjmccollum/t...

Come study with us! Fully-funded Ph.D. scholarship opportunity to work on the Late Antique translation of texts. www.acu.edu.au/research-and...

For everyone who wasn't able to make it to this year's Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, videos of the talks (including the one Rob Turnbull and I co-authored) are now up on YouTube! Here's the playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Join us this 1st of May if you want to hear a little more on my work on Pamphilus' library at Caesarea !

I'll be talking about paratexts at the Chester Beatty museum on 19 November 2025 in their Manuscripts and the Mind Lecture Series.

Today we say goodbye to Kew, our third home together. We’ve loved being part of the Kew-mmunity. I enjoyed being part of Threads of Kindness (a local volunteer group) and a book club at the local library. We’ll miss the flying foxes, wonderful local businesses, street art, and more!

Check out this new @joss-openjournals.bsky.social paper on digital humanities software by @touremily.bsky.social, Manandhar Shrestha, and Rob Turnbull!

Dual language editions on facing pages. Coming late 2025 or early 2026: Phoebadius, Contra Arianos (DelCogliano) Apollinarius, Kata Meros Pistos (Kelley Spoerl) Theodore, Debate with Macedonians (Matt Crawford)

In case you missed Rob's book launch last month, you can still watch the panel responses on YouTube! People need to know about his groundbreaking book on New Testament textual criticism, so here are recordings of myself and others describing and gushing over Rob's work: (1/6)

A new issue of NovT has arrived with an article on Lectionary 60 by Denis Salgado! I'm looking forward to reading it. brill.com/view/journal...

Come do a PhD with me (and other excellent colleagues) as part of an ARC-funded project—Night Vision in the Late Ancient Mediterranean! Funded places (fees and stipend) available! More info here, and reach out with any questions. Applications due Monday 21 April. www.acu.edu.au/research-and...

Coming this July. www.cambridge.org/au/universit...

Come study with us. ACU has just been rated #22 in the world in Theology, Divinity, and Religious Studies in the QS World University Rankings for 2025. #1 in Australia.

We are making progress toward the ECM of 1 Corinthians. theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...

If I'm not too busy revising my thesis this summer, I'll have to attend the introductory course virtually! I had the pleasure of meeting the instructor, Vittorio Secco, at a higher-degree research workshop in Rome last year, and he's doing exciting work on multilingual textual traditions.

Thanks to Peter Montoro for mentioning my Jude collation and my find_variation script in his ETC blog post. If you work with TEI collations, the script can be very useful. evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/02/reso...

If you're in the area or can attend virtually, please join us for the launch of my associate supervisor's new book! I will be one of several respondents on the panel.😀

The 2025 Seminar 1 schedule for the BECS Global Seminar Series is now available with contributions from Sarah Corrigan, Stephen Carlson, Bronwen Neil, Sabrina Inowlocki, and David Woods.

Small-in-the-grand-scheme-of-things but exciting news: the open-cbgm library has just had its first major update to v2.0: github.com/jjmccollum/o.... In addition to a snazzy new logo, this release adds new optimizations and options to the command-line utility (github.com/jjmccollum/o...). (1/4)