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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · 13d

The hardest stage

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · Sep 8

Come study with us! Ph.D. applications for this funding round are due 1 October 2025.

IRCI_ACU @irci.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you’re thinking about applying to a PhD, DMin, or MPhil at ACU, September is the time! The Faculty of Theology and Philosophy is an exciting research community with a broad range of expertise, and funding is available for research students.

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · Sep 1

Congratulations to @joeymccollum.bsky.social for his timely submission of his most excellent dissertation on the text of Ephesians. It has been an absolute joy working with Joey over the past three and a half years and the floor feels a little emptier now that he's back home.

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · Aug 14

It’s proofs time! How about another piece on Papias, this time looking looking at his presbyters?

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · Aug 8

I did see you!

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Joey McCollum @joeymccollum.bsky.social · Aug 2

My associate supervisor Rob Turnbull has written an exciting and accessible report on the research he's been doing! He recently published his PhD dissertation (brill.com/display/titl...), and he's currently applying phylogenetic methods to texts beyond the New Testament.

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Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP) @mdap-unimelb.bsky.social · Aug 1

In biology, phylogenetics reconstructs evolutionary relationships by analysing how traits are inherited and change over time.

The same technique is revealing the history of the New Testament

📜New research from MDAP's Robert Turnbull!
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/sci...

Scientific tools are tracing the evolution of ancient biblical manuscripts

In biology, phylogenetics reconstructs evolutionary relationships. The same technique is revealing the history of the New Testament, says a University of Melbourne expert.

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au

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Joey McCollum @joeymccollum.bsky.social · Jul 31

I had the pleasure of reading a draft of this paper a while ago. Excited to see that it's now published! Go check it out!

Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · Jul 30

My article on the Papias testimonium about Mark is now out, open access, in HTR!

In this piece, I interrogate the multilayered tradition about its composition and explore why authorship was imposed on it against its writer’s intent to remain anonymous.

DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · Jul 30

My article on the Papias testimonium about Mark is now out, open access, in HTR!

In this piece, I interrogate the multilayered tradition about its composition and explore why authorship was imposed on it against its writer’s intent to remain anonymous.

DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · Jul 17

No worries. I would probably accidentally say “booger” or “bugger” and embarrass myself.

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · Jul 17

Sorry, got cut off, meant to suggest pronouncing it like German instead of the French I would have first guessed.

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · Jul 17

Hinrich Boger, auch Böger, Bogher und Latinisert Henricus Flexor (* vor 1450 in Höxter; † 6. März 1505 in Rostock) war ein deutscher Dichter, Theologe und Humanist.

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · Jul 10

Thanks! We excited by this

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · Jul 8

I have now!

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Matthew R. Crawford @mcrawford.bsky.social · Jul 3

I am delighted to announce the IRCI has 2 job openings in early Christianity (specialisation open, research-focus, early career). Closing date 15 Aug. Contact me with any questions. We hope you'll consider joining our excellent group of scholars!
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...

Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow (Early Christianity) - Vacancy Details

candidate.aurion.cloud

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · Jun 26

Photo looks nothing like her

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Mark Goodacre @goodacre.bsky.social · Jun 23

Now that I'm blogging again, I decided to mention my new book: ntweblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

The Fourth Synoptic Gospel

I have written a new book! I'm afraid it takes me a while, especially as I have been in university administration for some years. Even wit...

ntweblog.blogspot.com

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · Jun 19

I have to say I was fairly impressed with Seesengood's little guide to Philemon. He does a good job of introducing students to different and fraught ways of reading a text when we know so little about its context.

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · Jun 17

I've read this book now. She calls her view "Dutch Radical Thought 3.0" and, yes, that's what it is. The main thing new and of interest apart from her overall thesis is her comparison of Paul's letters with Seneca's Moral Epistles as "protreptic rhetoric masquerading as genuine letters" (140).

Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · Dec 13

Any one familiar with this new book by Nina Livesey, which holds that all the letter attributed to Paul are second century? How does it different from the old (and discredited) Dutch Radical School position on Paul?

www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context

Cambridge Core - Biblical Studies - New Testament - The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context

www.cambridge.org

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · Jun 11

So disappointed.

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · May 28

They do insist on it, but do I have to humor them?

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · May 28

All-caps “THE”? Wow.

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · May 28

Today's question: If I'm going to cite a dissertation from The Ohio State University, do I have to include the 'The'?

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · May 24

Friday night news drop: it got announced at tonight's NAPS business meeting---I will be taking over as the next editor of the Journal of Early Christian Studies

On the hunt for your best work on any aspect of early Christianity (100-700CE)!

www.press.jhu.edu/journals/jou...

Journal of Early Christian Studies

Stephen J. Shoemaker, University of Oregon

www.press.jhu.edu

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Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · May 24

Thanks to everyone at the session for your stimulating questions.

Stephen C. Carlson @sccarlson.bsky.social · May 21

Who’s coming to NAPS?

I’m excited to present my work on Salvian, the only person in antiquity who wrote about his use of an allonym.

Here’s the abstract of “Salvian’s ‘Forgery’ Reconsidered”:

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