Rick Brannan
@rickbrannan.com
Data Architect/Data Wrangler. Doer of ML/MT and AI thingies. Translator of Lexham Press' "Apostolic Fathers." Mastermind behind the "Lexham English Septuagint." Now working on Baylor Handbook for Shepherd of Hermas. He/Him.
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Rick Brannan
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· Dec 6
Fragments of Christianity: Fragmentary Witnesses to Early Christian Liturgies, Hymns, Homilies, and Prayers
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Hello, newer followers! I thought I'd mention my last book, "Fragments of Christianity: Fragmentary Witnesses to Early Christian Liturgies, Hymns, Homilies, and Prayers." It has introductions, transcriptions, and translations to 30 papyri (5th cent. & before. (1/2) amzn.to/4iqOj1V #EarlyChristianity
I think it is as simple as Dan says. He's gone through this stuff *so often* because of his platform and his willingness to be a true public scholar. He's internalized everything.
Heiser was the same way. He'd internalized everything because he ran headlong through Coast to Coast AM and survived.
Heiser was the same way. He'd internalized everything because he ran headlong through Coast to Coast AM and survived.
I'm not a savant by any stretch of the imagination & a lot of folks in the academy could easily put me to shame. After years of doing this every single day, though, I've repeated so many passages & scholars & theories enough times to have instant recall of a lot of the stuff that comes up the most.
@maklelan.bsky.social Genuine question that I get is personal but I'd be grateful if you could answer it in any way you can.
I'm just trying to get a frame of reference on how you've mastered so much with incredible acuity.
Do you see yourself as average in ability? Or are you exceptional?
I'm just trying to get a frame of reference on how you've mastered so much with incredible acuity.
Do you see yourself as average in ability? Or are you exceptional?
November 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I think it is as simple as Dan says. He's gone through this stuff *so often* because of his platform and his willingness to be a true public scholar. He's internalized everything.
Heiser was the same way. He'd internalized everything because he ran headlong through Coast to Coast AM and survived.
Heiser was the same way. He'd internalized everything because he ran headlong through Coast to Coast AM and survived.
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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Just in case you're wondering , this is considerably worse than what Trump did you get impeached the first time.
At some point in the future, Witkoff should be prosecuted for this.
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Just in case you're wondering , this is considerably worse than what Trump did you get impeached the first time.
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no different to a U boat sinking a ship then surfacing to machine gun survivors in the water
no different
no different
"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:52 AM
no different to a U boat sinking a ship then surfacing to machine gun survivors in the water
no different
no different
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Belated Thanksgiving. This 15 pounder happened earlier today.
I am now basking in the afterglow. Turkey. Mashed potatoes. Stuffing. Gravy. Green bean casserole. Pumpkin pie 🥧. Apple meringue pie.
Yes I will have leftovers for supper later.
I am now basking in the afterglow. Turkey. Mashed potatoes. Stuffing. Gravy. Green bean casserole. Pumpkin pie 🥧. Apple meringue pie.
Yes I will have leftovers for supper later.
November 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Belated Thanksgiving. This 15 pounder happened earlier today.
I am now basking in the afterglow. Turkey. Mashed potatoes. Stuffing. Gravy. Green bean casserole. Pumpkin pie 🥧. Apple meringue pie.
Yes I will have leftovers for supper later.
I am now basking in the afterglow. Turkey. Mashed potatoes. Stuffing. Gravy. Green bean casserole. Pumpkin pie 🥧. Apple meringue pie.
Yes I will have leftovers for supper later.
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Hagueseth
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hagueseth
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Thread about an actual drug smuggler who’s about to be pardoned by Trump
Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted by a jury of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Thread about an actual drug smuggler who’s about to be pardoned by Trump
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We now have a website for the project I've been working on the with Garrick Allen, Emanuele Scieri, and Maxim Venetskov on Codex H, the manuscript preserving the earliest Greek evidence of the Euthalian annotation and presentation system for the New Testament.
codexh.arts.gla.ac.uk#/home
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codexh.arts.gla.ac.uk#/home
1/2
Annotating the New Testament
codexh.arts.gla.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
We now have a website for the project I've been working on the with Garrick Allen, Emanuele Scieri, and Maxim Venetskov on Codex H, the manuscript preserving the earliest Greek evidence of the Euthalian annotation and presentation system for the New Testament.
codexh.arts.gla.ac.uk#/home
1/2
codexh.arts.gla.ac.uk#/home
1/2
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I suppose our only #BlackFriday deal is this edition of Origen's On First Principles that we just pushed through the pipes. Available in paperback, Kindle, and audio.
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On First Principles: de Principiis by Origen of Alexandria
Composed in the early third century, On First Principles represents a turning point in Christian intellectual history. Origen seeks not merely to defend the faith, but to explain its inner logic—how t...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I suppose our only #BlackFriday deal is this edition of Origen's On First Principles that we just pushed through the pipes. Available in paperback, Kindle, and audio.
appianwaypress.com/books/origen...
appianwaypress.com/books/origen...
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We've got some HUGE news! We've DOUBLED in size overnight! Not only have we added "some" more Cairo Genizah fragments, but "ALL" of them @theul.bsky.social !!!
This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
We've got some HUGE news! We've DOUBLED in size overnight! Not only have we added "some" more Cairo Genizah fragments, but "ALL" of them @theul.bsky.social !!!
This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
This now brings the total number of items in Cambridge Digital Library to OVER 160,000!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
So I actually just listened to this verbal word salad that the twice-impeached one offered. How are we not in 25th amendment territory? How are we not impeaching this guy (again)?
His grasp of reality is gone. He lives in his own world and it is not ours.
Listen and tell me he's actually coherent.
His grasp of reality is gone. He lives in his own world and it is not ours.
Listen and tell me he's actually coherent.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
So I actually just listened to this verbal word salad that the twice-impeached one offered. How are we not in 25th amendment territory? How are we not impeaching this guy (again)?
His grasp of reality is gone. He lives in his own world and it is not ours.
Listen and tell me he's actually coherent.
His grasp of reality is gone. He lives in his own world and it is not ours.
Listen and tell me he's actually coherent.
Because of this post my spouse made apple meringue pie for our (belated) Thanksgiving feast tomorrow. Thanks for mentioning it. We're looking forward to tasting it!
I don’t love apple pie bc of the top crust, but I found a recipe this year that has a meringue topping instead and I’m very excited to finally have a good apple pie 😅
November 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Because of this post my spouse made apple meringue pie for our (belated) Thanksgiving feast tomorrow. Thanks for mentioning it. We're looking forward to tasting it!
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
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For any lovers of Aeschylus in Greek, we are looking for people to evaluate literal translations and glosses produced by Gemini 3. The data is here: github.com/gregorycrane...
GRC_misc/aesch/AeschTBTrans at main · gregorycrane/GRC_misc
Contribute to gregorycrane/GRC_misc development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
For any lovers of Aeschylus in Greek, we are looking for people to evaluate literal translations and glosses produced by Gemini 3. The data is here: github.com/gregorycrane...
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
Since the 18yo now has a job and is working today (learning the wonders of being least senior, but also the wonders of holiday pay) we've postponed the big meal until Friday.
Still trying to figure out food for today. Started w/cinnamon rolls, a holiday breakfast staple. Dinner yet to be decided.
Still trying to figure out food for today. Started w/cinnamon rolls, a holiday breakfast staple. Dinner yet to be decided.
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Since the 18yo now has a job and is working today (learning the wonders of being least senior, but also the wonders of holiday pay) we've postponed the big meal until Friday.
Still trying to figure out food for today. Started w/cinnamon rolls, a holiday breakfast staple. Dinner yet to be decided.
Still trying to figure out food for today. Started w/cinnamon rolls, a holiday breakfast staple. Dinner yet to be decided.
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We don't have any #BlackFriday sales, but every audio edition we've got can be purchased with Audible credits. So if you've got a few credits to burn, why not try listening to some Eusebius? Or Philo, or Josephus? Or Clement of Alexandria? Or Chrysostom? appianwaypress.com
#EarlyChristianity
#EarlyChristianity
Appian Way Press — Modern translations of ancient Christian works
Discover modern English translations of early Christian works using machine learning and translation technology. 36 books available.
appianwaypress.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
We don't have any #BlackFriday sales, but every audio edition we've got can be purchased with Audible credits. So if you've got a few credits to burn, why not try listening to some Eusebius? Or Philo, or Josephus? Or Clement of Alexandria? Or Chrysostom? appianwaypress.com
#EarlyChristianity
#EarlyChristianity
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Images of the manuscript, a scroll over 14ft long in Manichaean script, are available at idp.bl.uk/collection/1...
Collection object "Or.8212/178" • Manichaean manuscript, Xwastwanift
manuscript, ink on paper
idp.bl.uk
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Images of the manuscript, a scroll over 14ft long in Manichaean script, are available at idp.bl.uk/collection/1...
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This is why a con man shouldn’t have been allowed to become President!
This 👇
This 👇
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This is why a con man shouldn’t have been allowed to become President!
This 👇
This 👇
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Remember: It ys okaye to be lonely. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Remember: It ys okaye to be lonely. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
SO MUCH THIS.
"Each of my parking spots is precisely three inches longer and two inches narrower than the average parking spot. The designers say it is to save money and be economically friendly, but I know the truth: my only goal is to fuck you up."
I Am a Trader Joe’s Parking Lot and I Am Here to Destroy You
My game begins at once: a team of crack architects and city planners conspire to bring me to your city. People rejoice, and so do I, for the game i...
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
SO MUCH THIS.
A Grammar of Jordanian Arabic, by Bruno Herin et al. | The Online Books Page
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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The people who do this, who conceived of it, who demand it, are real life monsters.
“I had to take the baby from my crying wife’s arms.“ It hasn’t even been a year, and this is not a scandal anymore? What is wrong with us?
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The people who do this, who conceived of it, who demand it, are real life monsters.