Brandon W. Hawk

The SBL call for papers closes March 4. Consider submitting a proposal for the Christian apocrypha section.

The Epistle of Christ from Heaven in an 7th/8th or 9th cent. inscription once embedded in wall in the Church of S. Maria Assunta in Piazzo (Italy). Now in the Museo diocesano of Brugnato.

Jeremiah Coogan, "Uses and Abuses of the Gospel(s) according to the Hebrews." Friday, March 6, 2026 at 12:00 EST. Register at nasscalworkshop@gmail.com.

Join us March 6 for the latest First Friday Christian Apocrypha Workshop with Jeremiah Coogan (Jesuit School of Theology).

Join us on March 6 at noon EST for this month's First Fridays Workshop with @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, who will present a paper titled "Uses and Abuses of the Gospel(s) according to the Hebrews."

See more about Jeremiah and his work here:
www.scu.edu/jst/about/fa...

Yes, I am playing this to avoid thinking about other things out of my control.

I’m just really enjoying the grind on Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak expansion this weekend. Catch me in Elgado.

#MedievalSky Perhaps it's time to mask up when you go to the MSS room. "Here we report the recovery of 21 novel ancient SPPV genomes spanning the Bronze Age period .. to the Early Modern period in Western Europe. Our dataset includes multiple genomes obtained from medieval parchment manuscripts."

Introducing Our Lord and Savior, the College’s New Strategic Initiative Higher education faces looming threats from every direction. Dwindling enrollments. The demographic cliff. The enduring myth that professors have t...

"A lot of you are probably wondering what the new strategic initiative is. Well, it’s complicated and hard to explain. It moves in mysterious ways. We’re building this plane as we fly it, as they say in the new strategic initiative biz."

Interested in #apocrypha, or want to know more? Check out this excellent fresh article by @christycobb.bsky.social!

I don't think that Aquinas's arguments & argumentation are the best here (Arius was wrong, so therefore yes), but here we are.

Nothing like starting a wintry Lenten-season Friday morning contemplating "Whether the Son of God assumed a soul?"
www.newadvent.org/summa/4005.htm

YouTube video by Michelle Franklin | Legends and Lectures How to know if a pronunciation is correct?

Which pronunciation is correct?
youtube.com/shorts/EcFAk...

Photo of snow walls with a small pathway between them, snow flurrying in the air.

Ugh, it’s snowing again this morning!

Comic. [Person is sitting at a desk with a laptop, turned toward voice coming from off-panel.] VOICE FROM OFF-PANEL: I got you the ingredients for dinner tonight. Oh, and the plums in the fridge drawer are for my yogurt tomorrow; you should just leave them. Be back later! PERSON’S THOUGHT BUBBLE: Oh no. [caption] Help. It actually happened. I shouldn’t. But how can I not!?

Plums

xkcd.com/3209/

A New Wharton Study on AI Warns of a Growing Problem: Cognitive Surrender Casual users should pay special attention

This is a mental war that we have to win. It's not about being a luddite, it's about destroying or retaining the ability to think. It's about how insidious this becomes in a situation where generative AI is adopted and then subverted intentionally.

www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-whar...

The fierce power of a Nor'easter, captured in 1895 by Winslow Homer. It's his day.

Academics see the worde TTRPG and thynke "tenure track roleplayinge game"?

Photo of a pathway between snow walls, with bunny footprints through the pathway.

Had a friend around at the cottage overnight.

What?! Hahahaha!

Congratulations, Dan! I can't wait to see this one, which I'm sure will be a great follow-up to your last fantastic book!

Yup, the link is to the published proof!

This fact is brought to you by helping a kid working on a school report about the former president.

TIL that James A. Garfield, before he became president (& was assassinated shortly after that), wrote a never-before-published proof of Pythagorean's Theorem. So cool.
www.jstor.org/stable/44764...

Photo of a window from the inside, with white casing, turquoise curtains, screen caked with snow & a dead plant vine creeping up one side.

View from a bathroom window, snowpocalypse 2026.

Holy Christ, It’s Snowing! Holy Christ, it’s snowing! Fuck, exactly what we never anticipated—not in this gray and frozen month. Martians or race riots, sure, but look outsid...

"The devil is drunk, everyone! He went into the sky and tore it open, AND NOW GODDAMN SNOW IS COMING OUT OF THE HOLE HE RIPPED IN HEAVEN!" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hol...

Epidemic Disease and Society in the Premodern Low Countries: Inequality and Community In this book, evidence from a long-run history of epidemic-society interaction in the Low Countries shows that most recurring outbreaks were accommodated by communities, and most reactions, responses,...

Latest addition to the 2nd Plague Pandemic bibliography: Daniel R. Curtis, Epidemic Disease and Society in the Premodern Low Countries: Inequality and Community (2026), www.routledge.com/Epidemic-Dis.... #OpenAccess #MedievalSky #histmed 🗃️

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 7 of 2026 Only seventeen manuscripts were digitized in the past week. As is the current pattern, the vast majority, thirteen, were from Ott.lat. The rest consisted of a single manuscript from each of Barb.lat...

Before the blizzard
The flakes are yet to fall
Seventeen added
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
New from the #Vatican lots of classical Latin, Humanist translations, Francesco Filfelfo, Ge'ez sermons and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians

"...For further information please visit the website on submitting your manuscript with PIMS Press (pims.ca/article/subm...), or contact any of the editors (Rob Getz, Tristan Major, Stephen Pelle, and @rrtrilling.bsky.social.)" [2/2]

🚨 #medievalsky 🚨 The Publications of the Dictionary of Old English are expanding in scope and proposals are invited. "We intend to publish new scholarship in Old English language and literature, Anglo-Latin, antiquarianism, art history, material culture, palaeography, and religion..." [1/2]

Hey #medievalsky #manuscriptsky - do you have any examples of codices made into scrolls or rolls? Any genre.