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.

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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...