Haven’t seen anyone posting this yet. Nongbri has a new post (and article) on P15 and P16 brentnongbri.com/2026/05/07/a...

Open Access Publication! My essay. "Canonizing Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans," won this year's DeGruyter-Brill Prize and, as of today, is available open access. I'm really proud of this one. You can download here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

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)

Hacked our high school’s network to create a private LAN so that we could play Unreal Tournament from any ISD computer. Took admins more than a year to take down. (We could also change grades and, more importantly, adjust cafeteria balances)

In a break from academic projects, I’ve created a website with various itineraries for exploring Scotland. MyScotlandGuide.com

A nice write up of my Xeirographa project in Digital Orientalist (NB: all the bugs had been fixed)

Open-access scholarship/books in papyrology (and related fields): a thread I hope to periodically update, as new material comes out. 1/?

A bigger athletic event than the Olympics has begun

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

When I was a kid, all my tamagotchis died. This raises deep questions about my place among history’s worst serial killers

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

*Worst person I know* meme

They are executing unarmed people in the streets for trying to protect their neighbors with the full support of the federal government.

If you or your company are looking to migrate from US-based tech services in light of current politics, tariffs, and everything else here’s a list of Europe-based alternatives european-alternatives.eu

In a world dark with despair, a spot of light and hope for us: our daughter, Eleanor Freya, was born happy and healthy yesterday

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

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

For those of you with personal Microsoft accounts you’ll likely have received notice of a large price increase hitting soon (due to AI). If you go through the cancellation flow, they offer a “classic” plan without AI for you to swap to at your existing price

Half convinced these birds at the hospital are speaking Hebrew

The Letter to the Hebrews according to the Oldest Papyrus polumeros.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

Israel’s blockade of most food and aid, along with distribution difficulties inside the Gaza Strip, have driven many of Gaza’s 2 million Palestinians to the brink of starvation.

📘 Nothing to read? A new issue of #NovumTestamentum just dropped — with several #openaccess articles! Browse it here: shorturl.at/e2hsX. #BiblicalStudies #NewTestament #aarsbl #sblaar

My dog doing his best RayGun impression

Practically packed for the Birmingham TC Colloquium tomorrow

I’m glad to see Brent has saved me the time of listening to this

It’s the fourth day of the year and my wife already has more citations than I got last year

Ignatius, Epistle to the Romans

Exciting news today for something that's been in the works for far too long. I've signed a contract to produce a new edition and study of the text, hands, and paratexts of P46

First snow of the season

One of my personal project papyrus46.com is online. It brings together a complete set of the latest digital images and the transcriptions I produced for my doctoral thesis. You can also add images and transcriptions from Kenyon's ed. pr. for comparison. It also contains an extensive bibliography.

My response to Varner on Paul's "large letters" in Gal 6.11 in P46 is out as of this week in TC. It's available open access here: jbtc.org/v29/TC_Peter...

Going to catch the feed up on recent developments with me. I have an article out in the latest NovT showing that GA 250 is a direct copy of GA 424. It's the first of a phenomenon I'm calling "fabschriften" (facsimile-Abschriften) that I've developed software for detecting. brill.com/view/journal...