Brandon W. Hawk

Here's a thread of the Apocrypals Halloween episodes -- there's some pretty good ones in there, covering a wide variety of topics, from early Christian apocrypha to Jewish folktales to evangelical comic strips to a Christian found footage horror movie

If you want a good laugh, you will find Reuters' AI assistant pop up the minute you click on this link from Reuters about how AI assistants make widespread errors about the news

Carrie Fisher as Leia Organa in the closing scene of Start Wars IV: A New Hope. She is smiling and looking to the side.

Happy Carrie Fisher's birthday

(But also so so so bad that all of our LMS stuff is through Amazon?!?)

Does this mean my college will push back the submission due date for midterm grades (this Wednesday), or will I need to make up for it once Blackboard is back up? We have yet to see!

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 42 of 2025 In total thirty-eight manuscripts were digitized this week. The recent pattern has remained, Ott.lat was the largest fond with twenty manuscripts and Barb.lat was the next largest, with ten. The res...

38 new #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes an oration by Ubaldi, a part of an Atlantic Bible, some crazy heraldry, Cassian on Monks, Ethiopic, Classics and more
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The temporal drag of techno-bubbles: speedy hype, slow harm

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

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New issue of Early Christianity Vol. 16, No. 3 (2025) www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/issue/ear... @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social
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Hell is other people('s AI decisions)

Ivor (3) was watching me charge something up using a USB C cable, and he asked if he could plug it in, and I said sure, and he asked which way up it goes, and I was able to proudly say “IVOR IT DOES NOT MATTER WHICH WAY UP IT GOES AND THAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF HUMAN PROGRESS”

To be candid, I want the bubble to burst. Because it will eventually and inevitably, but the longer the current charade goes on the more our planet and communities are decimated— and the more dependent we become on the few powerful people left who control those resources.

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

It makes sense, because libraries are about providing access to sources and AI is about their enclosure

The law of the Internet has been called!

I mean, yeah, I know there are all sorts of issues with what RFK said, but I just want to point out how pissed off the Christian nationalist base should be, since they take the Bible so literally & all.

Sooo in that speech by RFK Jr. talking about the "pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant... gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta..." he says women "overwhelm millions of years of maternal instinct." Does that mean he's admitting that the earth is not ~6,000 years old & evolution happened?

The Book of Lecan Conference - Royal Irish Academy During this two-day event in October 2025, speakers explored the production of the Book of Lecan or Leabhar Mór Lecain, its scribes and patrons, and the texts contained within the manuscript.

Papers from the @ria.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social conference on the Book of Lecan, which took place last week, are now available to listen to on SoundCloud. Enjoy!
#MedievalSky
#SpéirGhorm

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Ooohhh shiny!

I'm so glad! I'm really happy & proud about how many people seem to have read it & learned from it.

The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Nativity of Mary Check out The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Nativity of Mary - The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew is one of the most important witnesses in Western Europe to apocryphal stories about the lives of Mary, J...

And here's my set of translations of The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Nativity of Mary!
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Apocrypha for Beginners: A Guide to Understanding and Exploring Scriptures Beyond the Bible A Guide to Understanding and Exploring Scriptures Beyond the Bible

Here's Apocrypha for Beginners: A Guide to Understanding and Exploring Scriptures Beyond the Bible
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Did you know that Bookshop has free shipping today? (Lots of authors have good books on that site!) And two of my books on #apocrypha are there on sale right now!
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Why do so many French words end in a silent x?
‘Cheveux’, ‘voix’, ‘paix’, ‘deux’, ‘mieux’, ‘faux’, ‘doux’ – the list is endless.

There’s a fascinating story behind this x’s – or actually two stories.

Click and zoom in on my new graphic to read about medieval abbreviations and imitating Latin:

I'm supposed to travel to Chicago next week for a medieval studies conference, & I'm starting to think... perhaps I will not & try to shift to an online presentation, if possible....

Cover image of Minji Lee, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body. On the complex imagery reproduced on the cover, read the book!

#histmed #MedievalSky Minji Lee's book, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body, has just been released #OpenAccess: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

I'm equally excited by the presence of 14th-century music notation in the margin.

Cambridge University Library's own article here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/merl...

Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Questions of Mary. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk