Ian N Mills

Learning lessons.
Always consult a library's manuscript catalog before you leave that library.

Anyone happen to have online access to Chadwyck-Healey's catalog of Harvard's Houghton Library?

Thanks for your help! The librarians solved it for me.

Yep! The question is how to track down the manuscripts that were once part of his collection.

I'm stumped.

Where is "La Croze D 28"?

It's a Latin MS referenced in a German catalog. And I found lots of other La Croze MSS (now under different names) in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin... but I can't find any trace D 28.

Any idea how to track this manuscript down?

Yeah, I wish this piece were a good fit for JECS.

It's kinda an old school New Testament piece and I have limited options that my new institution considers top tier for internal evaluation. Still, I think I'll pull it and risk a(n at least quick) desk rejection somewhere else.

Actually I was considering pulling this paper from where it is now (rhymes with BBQ) to submit to them instead. Management has surely changed.

Is any journal worth waiting nine months before the piece even goes out to reviewers?

Me: I think I've found all the important manuscripts of Laodiceans. Time to spend several hours standardizing sigla across databases and folders.

*One week later*

The Universe: Here are three more ninth century manuscripts.

Any takers for a Zoom guest lecture?

And you'd be most welcome (just wanted to give grad students and early career folks first shot). Send me a message if interested!

Sorry, I should have included that. Eastern Standard Time.

Any doctoral student or early career scholar want to give an online guest lecture on Marcion (preferably) or second century Christianity (but not gnosticism) more broadly?

I think I can offer you a $100 stipend for a 45 minute talk. Needs to be MWF 10-1050.

A really comfortable 1 year VAP teaching New Testament and Greek/Latin at Hamilton College.

~$80k salary+research funds
2/3 teaching load

Apply here:
apply.interfolio.com/180329

Anyone have experience submitting to CBQ?

Should I expect to be notified that my piece was, in fact, sent out for peer review? I submitted something by email about two weeks ago and haven't even received confirmation of receipt.

Submission portals with status reports are great actually.

And the free book goes to @kristinerosland.bsky.social!

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I decided I had to publish this book as a stand alone when I discovered that several modern (and really quite good) English translations of patristic texts just didn't translate hypothesis (or used wildly inconsistent translations) when it appeared in discussions of the gospels/Jesus traditions.

Scholarly collaboration is not only more enjoyable but produces better work!

I've been glad in just the last year to see funding bodies start asking for evidence that candidates have successfully contributed to collaborative research projects.

hey don't be out here making me sound problematic

Turns out (and I learned this today) it's a British idiom for doing unpleasant, manual labor.

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Reviewer #1 described my article as "coalface."

For the record, I'm well aware that my detractors could right now say many worse and truer things about me.

I love that Tim Walz's great political failure was that, under his leadership, some people were able to take advantage of Minnesota's robust social programs. I could only hope that when I die the worst thing my detractors could say about me was that my generosity was easy to exploit.

Thanks!

The Hypothesis of the Gospels — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW This book draws attention to one important but neglected concept from Hellenistic literary criticism that readers—including Christians—used to organize, describe, and evaluate narrative traditions.

Book Summary
www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11...

Irenaeus gets a whole chapter. It was noticing that he used the word "hypothesis" (υπόθεσις) in the same way as Dio Chrysostom that inspired the whole book project.

How did early readers think about the relationship between the gospels?

Repost to enter a drawing to win a free book.

Is there an updated (and hopefully more accessible) guide to the differences between Attic and Biblical/Koine Greek than Zerwick's Biblical Greek?

Ideally a book that assumes you already know classical Greek but explains the distinctives of the Greek of the NT?

I think of Luke 9:59-60.

Ah thank you!

Curious, searching "Aggsbach" doesn't turn up anything for me. Did you get a result?

Anyone know where the manuscripts from the Aggsbach Kartause (Austria) ended up?