Is P.Oxy. 5575 the Only Manuscript that Mixes Synoptic Material with the...
Back in September of 2023, I published an article on the newly discovered “gospel” manuscript from Oxyrhynchus: “New ‘Gospel’ Manuscript Discovered? (What it Is and Why it Matters).” That manuscript,...
View ArticleRecent Books on the Paratextual Features of Early Christian Manuscripts
There is more to a text than merely the words on the page. This is a principle that is often missed, even by modern readers. When a person reads a book, of course the intellectual attention is...
View ArticleOne of the Core Markers of Early Christian Identity
One of the most notable features of early Christianity is that it was a religion concerned with books. Particularly, scriptural books. As Margaret Mitchell observed, “Christianity was a religious...
View ArticleAnnouncing My New Book with Oxford University Press
Since this blog is primarily designed to put out lay-level content on the origins of the New Testament (among other issues), I don’t normally talk about the more technical scholarly projects I am...
View ArticleThe Dead Sea Scrolls, the Book of Esther, and the Argument from Silence
When we want to know how the New Testament canon developed, we have a number of sources at our disposal. Most fundamentally, we have patristic sources—the writings of the church fathers—which can show...
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