Dr. Elizabeth Schrader Polczer

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We're looking forward to hosting Pete Enns from @theb4np.bsky.social Eastern U for the CBA's upcoming regional conference at Villanova in March! Want to join us? The call for papers is here: assets.noviams.com/novi-file-up...

Art as Text: When Mary Was Lazarus’s Sole Sister — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW The question of how many sisters were portrayed with Jesus at the Raising of Lazarus in early Christian art has not previously been explored, and interestingly, the hypothesis that Martha was added la...

Fascinating new piece by @allykateusz.bsky.social:"of the sixty-one surviving third and fourth-century pieces of art that securely depict one or more sisters at the Raising of Lazarus, fifty-nine depict one sister (96%) while only two depict two sisters (4%)" www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/9/...

What would Jesus do?

Every once in a while, researching ancient manuscripts can give you a chuckle.

Why? The university just received a $2 billion gift from Phil Knight. Is this really the time to punish Humanities departments?

An Appeal from the Department of Religious Studies at University of Oregon - AAR A Note from the RSN Editor Religion scholars are currently facing numerous challenges, including issues of academic freedom and censorship, diminished budgets, department mergers and closures, job los...

The proposed elimination of U of O's Department of Religion is absolutely tragic. Oregon friends, please consider speaking up! aarweb.org/news/an-appe...

What the hell?!?!?!??!

NT job opening:

Trinity College Theological School in Melbourne, Australia, is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Biblical Studies (New Testament) commencing February 2026.

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I am delighted to announce the IRCI has 2 job openings in early Christianity (specialisation open, research-focus, early career). Closing date 15 Aug. Contact me with any questions. We hope you'll consider joining our excellent group of scholars!
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Ohhh I just noticed that Alexandrinus and Washingtonianus say the same thing. But they're the only two Greek witnesses up until the 5th century that do so.

I just noticed that up until the fifth century, every single surviving Greek manuscript of Luke 11:11 preserves a distinct rendition of Jesus's question. Obviously this is due to harmonization with Matthew 7:9-10, but honestly, it's impossible to tell what Luke actually wrote here.

Have fun in Asheville!

Assistant Professor of New Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary, NJ. FT/TT. Deadline September 8.

Have fun!!

Congrats, Mark!

Picture of Elizabeth Schrader-Polczer and me. Next to us is the starting slide of her PowerPoint on the screen. The title of her presentation was "Revelation 13:18 in the Papyri"

This was so fun and wonderful today! I'm so grateful @libbiesp.bsky.social took the time to teach me and my students about textual variants of Rev 13:18 today. I learned a lot and very much enjoyed hearing Libbie teach. I love it, when you feel the passion people have for their research topics!

Thank you so much for the lovely invitation, Eva! It's great to see you and meet your students!

Agreed!

I will be giving a guest lecture tomorrow at @univie.ac.at about the fascinating variations and interpretations in Revelation 13:18. I've been enjoying digging deeper into this question - thank you so much @eve9445.bsky.social for the invitation to Vienna!

Come learn Coptic an affordable cost! You will learn the basics of how to read and learn the language via a corpus-based approach. Come for the Gospel of Thomas! Stay for the more open access philology!

All learners welcome!

Absolutely ecstatic to announce that we here at Religion for Breakfast are offering an online Intro to Coptic class...using the Gospel of Thomas as the primary text! Taught by the amazing scholar of early Christianity Dr. Lydia Bremer-McCollum. Learn more here: www.religiondepartment.com/coptic

Good. That's what expertise is for.

Wow! Great choice of text to translate.

I'm in Rome for a research trip, and guess who else was here? One of the finest papyrologists alive, Fr. Juan Chapa! (He's the editor of P.Oxy. 5577 and MANY other fascinating Oxyrhynchus papyri) What a treat to get to chat with him

Vegetarian haters gonna hate

Changes like this are found throughout the entire textual transmission of John. But I should note that this correction happens in a commentary manuscript. Mary's name is omitted from 11:28 in the gospel text; these are Theophylact's comments about John 11:21-27, directly adjacent to the text.

Funniest "Mary" changed to "Martha" I've seen recently (found in minuscule 742)

Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 8/2, 2022

Most scholars think second century. Here's an open access scholarly journal devoted to exploring Mark 16: www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/en/comst/pub...

Lol good question!