Nag Hammadi Codex VI, opened at the center of the quire The special issue of Early Christianity 12 published the presentations of the confe...

A leaf from P.Mich.inv. 6238 (P46) showing the end of Romans and the beginning and title of Hebrews P.Mich.inv. 6238 / Recto | Advanced Papy...

Released today is an interview I did with Jamie Tibke host of The Hardcore Humanities Podcast.  The interview can be found on Spotify and Ap...

In the December issue of JSNT is a newly published article that I wrote on the publication and transmission of the New Testament writings in...

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (80-15 BCE) was a Roman architect and military engineer that lived during the fall of the Roman Republic and ...

The September 2019 issue of JETS published my review of Matthew Larsen. "Gospels Before the Book." New York: Oxford University ...

Roman fresco from Herculaneum depicting from left to right,  ink well and reed pen, bookroll, wax tablet codex, and wooden tablet. R...

While reading through the physician Galen of Pergamon's (129- ca. 215 CE) recently re-discovered writing "On the Avoidance of Grie...

I have been slowly reading through Brian J Wright’s excellent new book “ Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus: A Window into Early Chri...

The primary format of books in the Roman imperial age was that of the bookroll ( see previous post ), or more popularly the scroll. The text...