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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · Apr 4

Dual language editions on facing pages. Coming late 2025 or early 2026:

Phoebadius, Contra Arianos (DelCogliano)
Apollinarius, Kata Meros Pistos (Kelley Spoerl)
Theodore, Debate with Macedonians (Matt Crawford)

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · Aug 26

Yeah, I didn't choose that. Working out kinks in our process apparently.

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · Aug 26

Those members of NAPS whose membership is current should have received an email today about the 2026 meeting. For those who did not receive the email, renew your membership; and you can view the email at www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...
Please share widely with your network & on social media.

Call for Papers – NAPS – The North American Patristics Society

www.patristics.org

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Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · Nov 26

To celebrate both @younan.bsky.social's publication here and me crossing the 2k follower mark, let's have a thread about Narsai and some exciting new resources that have come out recently or are coming out soon.

Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · Nov 26

Huge congratulations to @younan.bsky.social on the publication of this newly published translation of several sermons (mēmrē) of Narsai. I know from experience how tricky Narsai can be, but Andrew makes it look easy. I was honored to be among those who wrote a blurb for this important volume.

Cover of book image. Title: Narsai: Selected Sermons. Cover image is a colorful page from a Syriac manuscript with black and red ink and decorative cross at the top.

Image of back cover of the same volume, with blurbs by James Walters, Sebastian Brock, and Aaron Butts.

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Pseudo-Nathanius Porterensis @nporter.bsky.social · Nov 30

I've joined the Substack revolution.

My first act as regent of patristics.substack is to dismantle the scholarly narrative that the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 was a compromise with the Pneumatomachians/Macedonians.

The people asked. I delivered.🤣 patristics.substack.com/p/did-the-cr...

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Pseudo-Nathanius Porterensis @nporter.bsky.social · Dec 23

Just saw that @mcrawford.bsky.social's translation of Cyril's Against Julian is due to come out in July 2025! Can't wait for this.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

www.cambridge.org

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Matthew R. Crawford @mcrawford.bsky.social · Mar 12

Coming this July. www.cambridge.org/au/universit...

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · Jun 17

Current view.

Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · Jun 1

You just solved future contingents.

Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · Jun 1

Who should I thank if I know tomorrow today?

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · May 30

All faculty consultations about some new project are basically this: I don’t have a strong opinion, I support those who want to do it, I personally don’t want to be involved, and there’s no way I am leading it.

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · May 30

hey NAPS members! you should have gotten an email from President David Brakke asking for your honest thoughts on what is important to you in our conference we we can find a more economically sustainable path! make your voice heard!

didn't get the email? check your membership status!

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · May 30

Evagrius & Origenist controversy: Elizabeth Clark, Jon Dechow
Evagrius & monasticism: G. Bunge, Driscoll, C. Stewart, L. Dysinger

Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · May 30

It's been about 15 since I've followed Evagrian scholarship closely, and this list inevitably reflects my own interests, but here it is:
Reconstituing Evagrian corpus: Joseph Muyldermans, Antoine Guillaumont, Paul Géhin

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · May 30

Can you narrow down your interest? There are many ways of approaching Evagrius and the scholarship reflects this.

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · May 30

An indispensable resource: evagriusponticus.net/index.htm

Guide to Evagrius Ponticus: Introduction

evagriusponticus.net

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · May 28

"'Do not despise' he took from common usage, some people being accustomed to say, I despised so-and-so, that is, I was pleased to see him struggling with problems." Theodoret of Cyrus, Commentary on Obadiah (trans. C. Hill, p. 131). So the ancients knew about schadenfreude.

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · May 28

This seems like a watershed moment regarding the cultural hegemony of English and the advent of reliable AI translation. bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.05...

Changes to BMCR’s language policy – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

bmcr.brynmawr.edu