Turns out only the Epistle to the Laodiceans is infallible actually.

The beginning of Scribes, Transmission, and Bilingual Traditions Conference at KU Leuven.

Motion that we remove one "n" from "beginning."

It was Occitan. And I had already read an article about this particular manuscript but failed to put the two together. Doh.

Old French #medievalsky folks, come on in! @iannelsonmills.bsky.social if you don't get help on here, I can put you in touch with some Toronto friends not on Bluesky who could help.

I thought (for about one minute) today that I discovered a totally new work under the title of the Epistle to the Laodiceans. Then I realized that a lot of the words were French (e.g. "mais" for "sed"). Does anyone on here work on 13th century vernacular Latin/Old French?

I have never once correctly spelled "admitedly."

Buridan's Ass but between the nearest deadline and the most important.

My article (open access) on the apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans, canonicity, paratexts, and Latin manuscripts!

Bibliothèque nationale de France. Day one.

65. Antti Marjanen, "Is Thomas a Gnostic Gospel?" open.spotify.com/episode/3wRo...

Is there any useable version of Stegmüller anywhere on the internet?

Congratulations to @iannelsonmills.bsky.social for receiving the De Gruyter Prize for Biblical Studies and Reception History 2025! His article is now published in #openaccess in our "Journal of the Bible and its Reception". 🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Currently: academic powerhouses @iannelsonmills.bsky.social and @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social co-presenting on a glossed copy of Laodiceans

Ian is rightly proud! I got a pre-pub peek at this and it's excellent. I learned a lot! I'm so glad we have Ian to Explain All the Laodiceans Things to us.

New Research on Apocryphal Christian Literature conference begins with Lydia Bremer-McCollum on the Egerton Gospel Fragments.

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...

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My little liturgical-codicological mind has been blown. When I was reading the Bobbio Missal and Gelasian Sacramentary in Holy Week, I focused for the 1st time on the description of the ceremonies in Lent where the 4 Evangelist symbols + the opening of each Gospel were explained to catechumens. 🕯️🧵

Thanks to @iannelsonmills.bsky.social I now know about BNF NAL 1063, a New Testament manuscript in Merovingian cursive. Definitely bookmarking this for next time I teach paleography. This is fol. 25r, the opening of Luke: Quoniam quidem multi conati sunt ordinare

Then, it's take your four-year-old up a (small) mountain day.

Take your four-year-old to class day.

Since @stewartbrookes.bsky.social is visiting an especially famous Tall Skinny Manuscript™ today, I thought I'd drop a thread of the ones I happened across during the year of Saints+MSS. In no particular order... This thread had some discussion and other exx.: bsky.app/profile/cari...

Send me a direct message if you want a copy now.

Proofs! "Search the Scriptures Because They Testify About Me" (John 5:39): An Alexandrian Misquotation of the Fourth Gospel

Firing shots.

Here is my review of Dr. Ian N. Mills' The Hypothesis of the Gospels (2025) marxistleninisthistorian.substack.com/p/the-hypoth...

A timely publication from this last week.

Numbers in the humanities are no replacement for an argument or a story. But every once in a while I can't resist the urge to use numbers to show that I'm not just going off vibes. I've spent all week counting.

Not sure why or how, but @iannelsonmills.bsky.social's book "The Hypothesis of the Gospels" is available in hardcover at Amazon for $10.33 (at least for me). If thou hast not obtaineth this surely magnificent tome, go thou and buy, for thine library requireth it. amzn.to/3NXfmHy

I'm at the stage in the writing process where a computer crash would bring sweet relief from the cascade of PDFs, tabs, and notes pages that I can't bring myself to close.

Learning lessons. Always consult a library's manuscript catalog before you leave that library. Anyone happen to have online access to Chadwyck-Healey's catalog of Harvard's Houghton Library?

New Map of Pre-1000 Manuscripts of Laodiceans just dropped.

Learning lessons. Always consult a library's manuscript catalog before you leave that library. Anyone happen to have online access to Chadwyck-Healey's catalog of Harvard's Houghton Library?

I'm stumped. Where is "La Croze D 28"? It's a Latin MS referenced in a German catalog. And I found lots of other La Croze MSS (now under different names) in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin... but I can't find any trace D 28. Any idea how to track this manuscript down?

Is any journal worth waiting nine months before the piece even goes out to reviewers?

Me: I think I've found all the important manuscripts of Laodiceans. Time to spend several hours standardizing sigla across databases and folders. *One week later* The Universe: Here are three more ninth century manuscripts.

Any takers for a Zoom guest lecture?

Any doctoral student or early career scholar want to give an online guest lecture on Marcion (preferably) or second century Christianity (but not gnosticism) more broadly? I think I can offer you a $100 stipend for a 45 minute talk. Needs to be MWF 10-1050.

A really comfortable 1 year VAP teaching New Testament and Greek/Latin at Hamilton College. ~$80k salary+research funds 2/3 teaching load Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/180329

Anyone have experience submitting to CBQ? Should I expect to be notified that my piece was, in fact, sent out for peer review? I submitted something by email about two weeks ago and haven't even received confirmation of receipt. Submission portals with status reports are great actually.

And the free book goes to @kristinerosland.bsky.social!

Reviewer #1 described my article as "coalface."

I love that Tim Walz's great political failure was that, under his leadership, some people were able to take advantage of Minnesota's robust social programs. I could only hope that when I die the worst thing my detractors could say about me was that my generosity was easy to exploit.

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

Is there an updated (and hopefully more accessible) guide to the differences between Attic and Biblical/Koine Greek than Zerwick's Biblical Greek? Ideally a book that assumes you already know classical Greek but explains the distinctives of the Greek of the NT?

Anyone know where the manuscripts from the Aggsbach Kartause (Austria) ended up?

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