Many years ago, I published the following JETS article, "What are the NT Autographs?"  the paper proposed that, "in referen...

The Pauline Corpus in Early Christianity: Its Formation, Publication, and Circulation. By Benjamin P. Laird. Peabody: Hendrickson Academic, ...

I came across an interesting reference by a figure dating from either the second or first century BCE, Demetrius, who some have attributed a...

Scholars have often recognized the ancient practice of writers keeping copies of their own letters. One example from Cicero (54 BC), illumin...

Ancient writings were largely circulated within communities through copying and distributing, with no legal copyright or formal system ...

“ Walk Worthily: A Commentary on Ephesians .” By Jeff Smelser. Cillicothe, OH: DeWard Publishing Company, 2017, 273 pp., ISBN:9781936341948...

Some of the earliest copies of the New Testament writings were copied in such a way that they aided the reader in their task of deciphering ...

It can be difficult to imagine the writings of Paul as individual letters, unbound and separate from the contents pages of our modern Bibles...

    When reading through the  New Testament I often think about the early Christian communities who first received Paul's letters and I ...

Gladiator games were a morbid and grotesque aspect of ancient Roman culture. Most of the gladiatorial games were sponsored by rich patrons ...