Ian N Mills
@iannelsonmills.bsky.social
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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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
The Hypothesis of the Gospels — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
This book draws attention to one important but neglected concept from Hellenistic literary criticism that readers—including Christians—used to organize, describe, and evaluate narrative traditions.
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Two-page book summary!
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.
But here's a Latin New Testament unlike any I've ever seen.
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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.
But here's a Latin New Testament unlike any I've ever seen.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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.
Delighted to be joined by my undergraduate research assistant (pictured) from Hamilton College.
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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.
Delighted to be joined by my undergraduate research assistant (pictured) from Hamilton College.
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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
The Hypothesis of the Gospels — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
This book draws attention to one important but neglected concept from Hellenistic literary criticism that readers—including Christians—used to organize, describe, and evaluate narrative traditions.
www.ancientjewreview.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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!
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
The Hypothesis of the Gospels — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
This book draws attention to one important but neglected concept from Hellenistic literary criticism that readers—including Christians—used to organize, describe, and evaluate narrative traditions.
www.ancientjewreview.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Two-page book summary!
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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
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Ian Mills, The Hypothesis of the Gospels
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Ian Mills, The Hypothesis of the Gospels
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November 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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
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Ian Mills, The Hypothesis of the Gospels
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64. Ramsay MacMullen, "Persecution" from Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries
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64. Ramsay MacMullen, "Persecution" from Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries
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November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
64. Ramsay MacMullen, "Persecution" from Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries
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Great mail day with new books from @cbzeichmann.bsky.social and @iannelsonmills.bsky.social!
October 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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!
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October 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Today I got to hold a physical copy of my first book!
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Ian N Mills, "Marcion as Textual Critic?"
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October 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Ian N Mills, "Marcion as Textual Critic?"
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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!
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
@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
October 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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!
Open to the public!
Reposted by Ian N Mills
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
@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
October 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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
@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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63. Nils Dahl, "The Crucified Messiah"
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63. Nils Dahl, "The Crucified Messiah"
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September 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
63. Nils Dahl, "The Crucified Messiah"
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I'll try not to take it personally.
September 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I'll try not to take it personally.
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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.
September 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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?
September 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Is there a technical name for this kind of string of dots?
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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
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September 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
62. Margaret Davies, Rhetoric and Reference in the Fourth Gospel (w/ Mark Goodacre)
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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.
September 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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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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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September 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
61. Bernadette Brooten's "Junia Outstanding among the Apostles (Romans 16.7)."
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Fascinating header to Laodiceans, tucked in the back of a thirteenth century Bible.
August 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Fascinating header to Laodiceans, tucked in the back of a thirteenth century Bible.
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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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OUP sent me a free-access link, so if you're interested in the paper, please message/email me!
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August 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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-...
OUP sent me a free-access link, so if you're interested in the paper, please message/email me!
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New article on a Syro-Latin reading in Luke coming soon to New Testament Studies.
August 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
New article on a Syro-Latin reading in Luke coming soon to New Testament Studies.
Chilling this morning with some Oxyrhinchus Papyri.
August 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Chilling this morning with some Oxyrhinchus Papyri.