Another six medieval Bibles at the Houghton Library today... and not a single copy of Laodiceans. But here's a Latin New Testament unlike any I've ever seen.

Mandatory author "selfie" from #SBLAAR!

Searched through six Latin Bibles at Harvard's Houghton Library today and turned up two copies of Laodiceans! Delighted to be joined by my undergraduate research assistant (pictured) from Hamilton College.

Boston-bound train from central New York. See you soon, religion nerds. #SBLAAR Also I got a prescription at thirty-four years old.

Today on AJR: a #publications article from Ian N. Mills on his new book, The Hypothesis of the Gospels: Narrative Traditions in Hellenistic Reading Culture #newtestament @iannelsonmills.bsky.social @fortresspress.bsky.social

Two-page book summary!

Apologies for the audio quality... Ian accidentally recorded the whole thing with his laptop mic (while talking into a different microphone). Ian Mills, The Hypothesis of the Gospels open.spotify.com/episode/4WLj...

64. Ramsay MacMullen, "Persecution" from Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries open.spotify.com/episode/4sGM...

Great mail day with new books from @cbzeichmann.bsky.social and @iannelsonmills.bsky.social!

Today I got to hold a physical copy of my first book! a.co/d/3oYOCv4

Ian N Mills, "Marcion as Textual Critic?" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

If you're interested in the long life of Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans, I'm presenting some of my research at UMass Amherst. Open to the public!

Thank you @iannelsonmills.bsky.social for agreeing to present on your research for my early Christianity class. We got a big lecture hall and made the lecture open to the public. Haec Epistula Non est Pauli 10/28/2025, 11:30 AM, 65 Bartlett Hall 130 Hicks Way, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003

63. Nils Dahl, "The Crucified Messiah" open.spotify.com/episode/0cQk...

I'll try not to take it personally.

NASSCAL's October First Friday workshop will feature Ian Mills, with his paper "Canonizing Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans." See the poster below for details on how to join.

Is there a technical name for this kind of string of dots?

62. Margaret Davies, Rhetoric and Reference in the Fourth Gospel (w/ Mark Goodacre) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6...

The best part of waking up is, in fact, new manuscripts in your inbox—especially when they happen to contain unique and hitherto unrecognized paratexts.

61. Bernadette Brooten's "Junia Outstanding among the Apostles (Romans 16.7)." open.spotify.com/episode/056u...

Fascinating header to Laodiceans, tucked in the back of a thirteenth century Bible.

My latest article on John has finally been published (it was preprint for a while). OUP sent me a free-access link, so if you're interested in the paper, please message/email me! academic.oup.com/jts/article-...

New article on a Syro-Latin reading in Luke coming soon to New Testament Studies.

Chilling this morning with some Oxyrhinchus Papyri.

One of my favorite manuscript discoveries: This Latin Bible contains a "Second Epistle to the Colossians." Ep(istu)la Pauli ad Colocenses. S(e)c(un)da.

60. John P Meier, "Josephus" from A Marginal Jew, Vol. 1 open.spotify.com/episode/0q8u...

"This book is groundbreaking." Ehrman's endorsement for The Hypothesis of the Gospels. You can pre-order: a.co/d/6ADGpLl

My research assistant.

Sometimes you have to puzzle over marginalia to figure out what a copyist or reader thought about your text. And sometimes things are a little more clear. Hoc ep(istu)la n(on) e(st) Pauli "This Epistle is not by Paul" Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 5

Any guesses what the two letters at the end of this title mean? 14th century Latin Bible.

Finishing up an article enroute to Acadia. Oliver is loving New Hampshire!

PSA: You don't have to convince yourself there's no first century to care about the second century.

I need something to read on lectionary notes in medieval/Latin manuscripts. Can anyone give me a recommendation or three?

It turns out that a lot of manuscripts of Laodiceans have moved since one German scholar tried to track them down in 1893. Must have been a busy 130 years.

Anyone heard anything yet about the publication of our Oxford Patristics papers?

Want to hear about the Greek manuscript of Paul's (Apocryphal) Epistle to Laodiceans in Glasgow? Here's Glasgow, GB 247 MS Hunter 493 (V.7.20). It's a 12/13th century Latin Bible from France. Chunky.

Tolkien Gnosticus? Heresy and Orthodoxy in JRR Tolkien's Legandarium (Re-uploaded Lecture) youtu.be/HPyvDeK_Lso?...

Q: What are your summer plans? A:

Also grading is hard. Grading with pneumonia is harder.

I keep rediscovering in new and fascinating ways that ChatGPT just cannot read sources.

More manuscripts of Laodiceans at Columbia and Union today.

annnnnnd CUP set up the website for my forthcoming element! stuff coming out = i'm just going to be a bundle of anxiety and excitement for a while. don't mind me.

Guest lecture by Nathan Tilley on "Entangled Knowledge in East Syriac Christianity" at Hamilton College.

It looks like a particularly interesting (for my research) manuscript--once part of the Schoyen Collection--was sold by Christie's in 1993. Does anyone have any experience tracking this kind of stuff down? Is there anything to be done? www.schoyencollection.com/apocryphal-l...

It looks like a particularly interesting (for my research) manuscript--once part of the Schoyen Collection--was sold by Christie's in 1993. Does anyone have any experience tracking this kind of stuff down? Is there anything to be done? www.schoyencollection.com/apocryphal-l...

Canceled flight means I'm taking a day to finally make peace with Merovingian.

Speaking on the history of Laodiceans in the Latin Bible at the University of Birmingham.

Laodiceans at the University of Leicester!