Alan Garrow

At this year's #BNTS2025 I'm looking forward to joining the Later Epistles Seminar.

That's a great hire.

ISBL Uppsala 2025 Paul, James, Matthew and Luke all appear to have known lost sources that they treated as highly authoritative. For example, Paul quotes an unknown Scripture in 1 Cor 2.9, references a mysterious...

I invite you on a fishing trip ...
A video version of
"The Original Didache: The Decree beneath the Scriptures" (ISBL Uppsala 2025) #ISBL25
is now available:
www.alangarrow.com/isbl-2025-di...

MPHers Jonathan Lo Tobias Ålöw at the first MPH session at #isbl25 - gearing up for the Torsten Löfstedt (also pictured) MPH session tomorrow.

To review today's presentation 'Matthew's Apocalypse Last' visit: www.alangarrow.com/isbl-2025-mp...

ISBL Uppsala - Apostolic Fathers Intertextuality in the Writings of the Apostolic Fathers, 2.00-3.30pm June 26th ​International SBL - Uppsala, Sweden

The Original Didache: The Decree Beneath the Scriptures
ISBL Uppsala Thursday 26th June
Session 26-53 2.00-3.30pm
#ISBL25
www.alangarrow.com/blog/isbl-up...

ISBL/EABS 2025 Uppsala - Synoptic Gospels/Living in the Last Days Living in the Last Days: Matthew 11.00am-12.30pm June 25th ​International SBL/EABS - Uppsala, Sweden Tying up loose Ends: The making of Matthew’s Apocalyptic Discourse What was Matthew’s...

From the perspective of the Matthean Posteriority Hypothesis ...
Tying up Loose Ends: The Making of Matthew's Apocalyptic Discourse.
11.00-12.30 June 25, 2025
##ISBL25 #EABS25
www.alangarrow.com/blog/isbleab...

Thank you Keith Frayn for this dedication to my father. Always an inspiration to me too.

Is Revelation's Land Beast a case of Christian Nationalism? Revelation was written at a time when Nero, an infamous persecutor of Christians, had died but was expected by some to return to recapture his empire. This context provides, I believe, compelling...

Revelation provides a lens through which to view the politics of any age. This is a piece I wrote a couple of years ago about the Beast of Christian Nationalism www.alangarrow.com/blog/revelat...

I'll be on the preorder list

Writing and Rewriting the Gospels A compelling reappraisal of the relationships between the canonical gospels   Biblical scholars have long debated the Synoptic problem and the literary rela...

Proud to endorse this book by James Barker:

“Writing and Rewriting the Gospels isn’t so much a study as a revelation—a convincing glimpse into the hidden processes behind the creation of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John...."

www.eerdmans.com/978080287452...

YouTube video by Harrogate School of Theology & Mission Alan Garrow Live Lecture - November 2024

This video introduces why I think the Didache contains two missing books of the Bible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHVH...

Put some champagne in the fridge and then try to forget about it.

I have found communication from Baker Academic (Bryan Dyson - New Testament) to be exceptional - for what that's worth.

Goats in front of a derelict library

Don't judge a library by its entrance. H54 and the Archimedes palimsest were both discovered here.

"Our society tells us that if and when we get 'there' - the job or position or degree we've always wanted - that's when all the important stuff will start happening. Not so. All the good stuff happens in obscurity." Jonathan Martin, *Prototype*

David Copperhead?

Skeeting

I can't be expected to do my best work under these conditions.

The Cuilin Ridge, Isle of Skye at dawn.