Join us Friday for the November 2025 First Friday workshop with Ivan Miroshnikov (University of Helsinki).Β Register at the email in the image below for the pre-circulated paper and Zoom link.
04.11.2025 10:51 β π 8 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
NASSCAL's Early Christian Apocrypha series ~ now expanded with our latest volume: The Martyrdom of Daniel and the Three Youths, by Alexey Somov.
28.10.2025 14:26 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1
Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Gospel of Eve. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...
24.10.2025 10:49 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Announcing the launch of the open-access Journal of Christian Apocryphal Literature (JCAL). Sign up if you are interested in being a contributor or reviewer! journals.aperio.press/jcal/submiss...
17.10.2025 20:43 β π 44 π 27 π¬ 0 π 2
For more information, including a preview: www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...
12.10.2025 16:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The new volume in NASSCAL's Early Christian Apocrypha series, The Martyrdom of Daniel and the Three Youths by Alexey Somov, is now available to order: wipfandstock.com/979838524779...
12.10.2025 15:51 β π 4 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Questions of Mary. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...
07.10.2025 14:49 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
NASSCAL's October First Friday workshop will feature Ian Mills, with his paper "Canonizing Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans." See the poster below for details on how to join.
25.09.2025 15:02 β π 13 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
We are thrilled to announce NASSCAL's first in-person gathering since 2018. Hosted once again by the University of Virginia. Come and tell us about your work. Details at www.nasscal.com/meetings/
24.09.2025 12:33 β π 12 π 7 π¬ 1 π 2
Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Testament of Our Lord in Galilee. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...
17.09.2025 11:24 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Fifteen Signs before Judgment, compiled by @brandonwhawk.bsky.social. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...
05.09.2025 11:05 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
The NASSCAL First Fridays Workshop 2025/2026 season begins Sept. 5 at 12:00 (EDT) with Julia Snyder's essay "Apostles Behaving Badly? Violence in the Acts of Philip." Contact us if you would like to participate.
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I was interviewed on the Patristica podcast (youtu.be/AVKCrvZODf4) about the Apocrypha of Symeon Metaphrastes Project (a collaborative collection of translations; information here: www.tonyburke.ca/the-apocryph...).
26.08.2025 15:15 β π 4 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Conversion of Bartholomew. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...
25.08.2025 11:54 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Birth of Bartholomew. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...
20.08.2025 13:59 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha: On the Deaths of the Apostles, an apostolic list in Syriac and Sogdian. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...
18.08.2025 13:26 β π 4 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
NASSCAL is looking for scholars who are interested in presenting their research on Christian apocrypha at the First Fridays Workshop during the 25-26 academic year. Workshops are on zoom on the first Friday of the month at 12pm Eastern (US) time. Contact Janet Spittler at nasscalworkshop@gmail.com.
15.08.2025 15:44 β π 2 π 6 π¬ 0 π 1
Added to e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha ~ Teaching of the Lord, compiled by @chancebonar.bsky.social . www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...
15.08.2025 15:40 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Life of Gerasimos of Emesa, compiled by SlavomΓr ΔΓ©plΓΆ www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...
11.07.2025 08:21 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Coming soon: the latest volume in NASSCAL's Early Christian Apocrypha series.
01.07.2025 10:55 β π 13 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
Tripoli, Dayr Sayyidat al-Balmand, 156
Images: HMML (registration required) Other identifiers: HMML project no. BALA 150; formerly MS 576 Physical description: paper, 20.5 Γ 14.5 cm, 233 fols., 1 col.; leaves missing at beginning and elβ¦
Added to e-Clavis: Manuscripta apocryphorum ~ Tripoli, Dayr Sayyidat al-Balmand, 156 (1606), an Arabic miscellany containing Infancy Gospel Thomas, Six-Bks Dormition, and several apocryphal acts. Compiled by SlavomΓr ΔΓ©plΓΆ. www.nasscal.com/manuscripta-...
20.06.2025 13:08 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Gospel of Marcion, compiled by Mark Bilby and Markus Vinzent. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...
30.05.2025 13:35 β π 10 π 6 π¬ 0 π 1
Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Acts of Pilate/Gospel of Nicodemus, compiled by Stephen Hopkins. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr....
19.05.2025 10:44 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
The final First Fridays Workshop of the 2024/2025 season features Sible de Blaauw discussing a martyrium commemorating the story of the apostle John being boiled in oil. Join us May 2.
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Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ Homily on Mary Magdalene by Nicephorus Callistus. www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...
14.04.2025 08:51 β π 6 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Visiting Pilate's final resting place and talking Infancy Thomas in Glasgow. www.apocryphicity.ca/2025/04/04/m...
04.04.2025 11:10 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Added to e-Clavis: Christian apocrypha ~ the Life of Pilate (a medieval text incorporated into the Golden Legend). www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-chr...
02.04.2025 11:46 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Apocrypha lovers, please join us next Friday, April 4th at 12EDT for our next First Friday workshop! Weβll be discussing a piece by Triantafillos Kantartzis on focalization and witnesses in the Acta Pilati. See you there!
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PhD student @ Emory - thinking about bodies, gender, and disgust in the New Testament & apocrypha
Assoc Prof of NT | Ancient Media | Papyri | Positive Vibes Critical Pedagogy | Un/Specs Grading | 2000β2020s Dad Rock | Midwesterner
PhD in New Testament & Early Christianity /
Associate Prof @ Univ. of Denver /
Slavery, Gender, Sexuality /
Single Mom by Choice (SMC) to a 8 yo
Writer of songs, fiction, and scholarship on early Christianity. https://linktr.ee/yeungmusic
Assistant Professor of New Testament and Judaic Studies. HBCU Stan. Theoryhead. Views my own. RT β endorsement.πΉπ₯’π³οΈβπ #FlyEaglesFly #NotMeUs she/ΧΧΧ
Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
PhD Candidate at Loyola University Chicago. Currently writing a dissertation on purity in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies
... beschΓ€ftigt sich nicht nur mit antikem Christentum
A research centre of McMaster Divinity College providing opportunities to study the literature, theology, history & spirituality of early Christianity.
www.mcmasterdivinity.ca/cpec
The podcast where Chris Sims and Benito Cereno read Bible and Bible-adjacent literature and try not to be ding-dangs about it
https://apocrypals.libsyn.com/
https://apocrypals.dashery.com/
Latin/Greek Teacher; Languages; Early Church, LXX nerd; Cappadocians Stan Account. 4w5 βHot toddy, brainly speakingβ
Fellowships Advisor | PhD in Early Christian Studies | she/her
https://maiakotrosits.wordpress.com
PhD. Ancient things. Early Christianity & Cultural Studies.
Out now: After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity (Duke UP). Recently: The Lives of Objects (Chicago UP, 2020).
Ohio State Classics faculty, formerly in ODU History dept; PhD in Classics from UChicago; MTS + ThM from HCHC; history + material culture of ancient religion; chanter, knitter, weaver; author of Contested Cures (Edinburgh University Press) bit.ly/3sMTELi
Researcher in early Christianity, (late) antiquity, gods & rituals, landscape & place, gospel literature, martyrs, gnostics, Coptic Egypt, and Roman amphitheatres. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/sarah.parkhouse
Dubliner, FSA, FRHistS; mostly medieval with an unhealthy interest in James Joyce.
"A happy, footnote-drugged maniac who disturbs the book mites in a dull volume, a foot thick, to find in it a reference to an even duller one."
New Testament, early Christian apocrypha, embodiment. Research Fellow, University of Nottingham, UK.
