Stephen C. Carlson

Please reskeet: CFP is open for the North American Patristics Society meeting, May 21-23, 2026 in Chicago

Submit abstracts either for the general call or to a pre-arranged theme, or you can submit a whole planned session!

Deadline is Nov 19th, details at link:

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The hardest stage

Come study with us! Ph.D. applications for this funding round are due 1 October 2025.

Congratulations to @joeymccollum.bsky.social for his timely submission of his most excellent dissertation on the text of Ephesians. It has been an absolute joy working with Joey over the past three and a half years and the floor feels a little emptier now that he's back home.

It’s proofs time! How about another piece on Papias, this time looking looking at his presbyters?

I did see you!

My associate supervisor Rob Turnbull has written an exciting and accessible report on the research he's been doing! He recently published his PhD dissertation (brill.com/display/titl...), and he's currently applying phylogenetic methods to texts beyond the New Testament.

Scientific tools are tracing the evolution of ancient biblical manuscripts In biology, phylogenetics reconstructs evolutionary relationships. The same technique is revealing the history of the New Testament, says a University of Melbourne expert.

In biology, phylogenetics reconstructs evolutionary relationships by analysing how traits are inherited and change over time.

The same technique is revealing the history of the New Testament

📜New research from MDAP's Robert Turnbull!
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/sci...

I had the pleasure of reading a draft of this paper a while ago. Excited to see that it's now published! Go check it out!

My article on the Papias testimonium about Mark is now out, open access, in HTR!

In this piece, I interrogate the multilayered tradition about its composition and explore why authorship was imposed on it against its writer’s intent to remain anonymous.

DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S001...

No worries. I would probably accidentally say “booger” or “bugger” and embarrass myself.

Sorry, got cut off, meant to suggest pronouncing it like German instead of the French I would have first guessed.

Hinrich Boger, auch Böger, Bogher und Latinisert Henricus Flexor (* vor 1450 in Höxter; † 6. März 1505 in Rostock) war ein deutscher Dichter, Theologe und Humanist.

Thanks! We excited by this

I have now!

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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Photo looks nothing like her

The Fourth Synoptic Gospel I have written a new book! I'm afraid it takes me a while, especially as I have been in university administration for some years. Even wit...

Now that I'm blogging again, I decided to mention my new book: ntweblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

I have to say I was fairly impressed with Seesengood's little guide to Philemon. He does a good job of introducing students to different and fraught ways of reading a text when we know so little about its context.

I've read this book now. She calls her view "Dutch Radical Thought 3.0" and, yes, that's what it is. The main thing new and of interest apart from her overall thesis is her comparison of Paul's letters with Seneca's Moral Epistles as "protreptic rhetoric masquerading as genuine letters" (140).

So disappointed.

They do insist on it, but do I have to humor them?

All-caps “THE”? Wow.

Today's question: If I'm going to cite a dissertation from The Ohio State University, do I have to include the 'The'?

Friday night news drop: it got announced at tonight's NAPS business meeting---I will be taking over as the next editor of the Journal of Early Christian Studies

On the hunt for your best work on any aspect of early Christianity (100-700CE)!

www.press.jhu.edu/journals/jou...

Thanks to everyone at the session for your stimulating questions.

Here’s an image illustrating my #NAPS2025 talk.

I've had fun updating my professional website over the past few weeks. (The end of the semester is always a nice opportunity to get back into old hobbies like web design.) And I have a few new things out there.

Here it is!
www.hugomendez.com

Lost art

Thanks. Your article led me to revisit Salvian.