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Ian N Mills

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Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion & Classics, @HamiltonCollege | Ph.D. in Religion, Duke University | Cohost of @NTReviewPod | New Testament and the History of Christianity

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · Feb 10

You can pre-order my first book!

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The Hypothesis of the Gospels: Narrative Traditions in Hellenistic Reading Culture

The gospels were not the only books in antiquity to retell a traditional story. Readers of the gospels drew on an existing model for pluriform literature to make sense of the different versions of Jes...

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NT Review Pod @ntreview.bsky.social · 2d

Ian N Mills, "Marcion as Textual Critic?"
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Podcast Episode · New Testament Review · 10/10/2025 · 26m

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 3d

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!

Joseph A.P. Wilson @josephapwilson.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Joseph A.P. Wilson @josephapwilson.bsky.social · 6d

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NT Review Pod @ntreview.bsky.social · 12d

63. Nils Dahl, "The Crucified Messiah"
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63. Nils Dahl, "The Crucified Messiah"

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 13d

There's a "navel gazing" joke here, but I'm too sleep deprived to find it.

Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 14d

We've all been there.

Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 14d

I'll try not to take it personally.

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NASSCAL @nasscal.bsky.social · 17d

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.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 18d

Just finished this today. A delightful read.

Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 25d

I'd disagree with Mark more often if only he had worse opinions.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 26d

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

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NT Review Pod @ntreview.bsky.social · 27d

62. Margaret Davies, Rhetoric and Reference in the Fourth Gospel (w/ Mark Goodacre)
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62. Margaret Davies, Rhetoric and Reference in the Fourth Gospel

Podcast Episode · New Testament Review · 09/15/2025 · 48m

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · Sep 9

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.

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NT Review Pod @ntreview.bsky.social · Sep 9

61. Bernadette Brooten's "Junia Outstanding among the Apostles (Romans 16.7)."
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61. Bernadette Brooten, "Junia Outstanding among the Apostles (Romans 16.7)"

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · Aug 31

Loved this thread! What a cool little piece of the discipline's history.

Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · Aug 31

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

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Hugo Méndez @hugomendez.bsky.social · Aug 29

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!

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · Aug 19

Chilling this morning with some Oxyrhinchus Papyri.

Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · Aug 16

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.