In the midst of praising his friend Octavius's excellent poetical works, Pliny urged him to not delay the publication of his friend'...

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...

Roman scribe with his stylus and tablets on his tomb stele at Flavia Solva in Noricum In Book 6, Letter 5 to his friend Ursus, Pliny the You...

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...

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

Greco-Roman authors largely preferred private copying through friends and acquaintances to publish their work over commercial book sellers (...

When reading through The Letters of the Younger Pliny, I came across some comments regarding the bookroll. In one of his letters to Corneliu...

My Dad pointed me to a reference in a letter of Pliny the Younger to a Virginius Rufus who had been killed by a large bookroll. It was too ...

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