Repairing a loose fragment of P.Oxy 3203 using small ‘tabs’ applied with tweezers. Image from the British Museum Blog Faith after the pharao...

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...

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

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 effects of the Antonine plague in the later half of the second century (ca. 165-190s CE) were far reaching. It is commonly accepted...

Click to Play YouTube Video Here is an interview that I had with Stephen Boyce of City Light Church. We talked about my chapter ...

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

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

In a letter to his long time friend Atticus, Cicero informs his friend that he had finished revising an essay and was sending it his way...

I just received word that my paper proposal was accepted for the 2017 SBL Annual Meeting in Boston. For those who might be interested, it wi...

I came across a reference in the letters of Cicero (54 BCE). He was writing to his brother Quintus, and mentioned, off-hand, that he was goi...