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Monday, July 6, 2026

Papyrus Facsimiles from Manuscript Shop

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I recently received a gift from Wes Huff of three facsimile papyrus manuscripts from the Manuscript Shop . I have been so impressed by the q...
Friday, June 26, 2026

Open Access Books: Manual of Roman Everyday Writing Volume 1 and 2

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  Alex Mullen & Alan Bowman,  Manual of Roman Everyday Writing .  Vol. 1: Scripts and Texts (Nottingham: LatinNow ePubs, 2021) . Anna Wi...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Forthcoming in The Journal of Theological Studies: Moses as a Symbol of the Crucified Jesus: An Early Reference to the Staurogram?

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Early on in my studies, I came across Larry Hurtado's book The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins . It was ...
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Monday, March 30, 2026

P.Bodmer II (P66), a Marginal Correction, and the Useful Life of Books

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While re-reading James Royse's discussion of P66, I came across his brief mention of a correction at John 13:19a. It seems that the orig...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Review of Garrick Allen, Words Are Not Enough: Paratexts, Manuscripts, and the Real New Testament

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  In the September 2025 issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society appears my review of, Garrick Allen. Words Are Not Enoug...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Nomina Sacra and Assigning dates to Early Christian Papyri

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Closeup detail of P75 showing the "staurogram" at Luke 14:27 ( https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Pap.Hanna.1(Mater.Verbi) Image 1B....
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Thursday, December 4, 2025

Tertullian, the Alexamenos Graffito, and P66

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Approximately 1800 years ago someone (a child or teenager) scrawled (in Greek) an insult into the plaster walls of Emperor Caligula's fo...