Stephen C. Carlson
@sccarlson.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Biblical and Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University (Ph.D. Duke, New Testament, 2012). Många bäckar små gör en stor å.
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Stephen C. Carlson
@sccarlson.bsky.social
· Aug 14
It’s proofs time! How about another piece on Papias, this time looking looking at his presbyters?
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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:
www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...
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:
www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...
Call for Papers – NAPS – The North American Patristics Society
www.patristics.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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:
www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...
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:
www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...
Come study with us! Ph.D. applications for this funding round are due 1 October 2025.
If you’re thinking about applying to a PhD, DMin, or MPhil at ACU, September is the time! The Faculty of Theology and Philosophy is an exciting research community with a broad range of expertise, and funding is available for research students.
September 8, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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.
September 1, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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?
August 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It’s proofs time! How about another piece on Papias, this time looking looking at his presbyters?
Reposted by Stephen C. Carlson
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.
August 2, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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.
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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...
The same technique is revealing the history of the New Testament
📜New research from MDAP's Robert Turnbull!
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/sci...
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.
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au
August 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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...
The same technique is revealing the history of the New Testament
📜New research from MDAP's Robert Turnbull!
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/sci...
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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...
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...
July 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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...
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...
July 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Stephen C. Carlson
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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Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow (Early Christianity) - Vacancy Details
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July 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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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Now that I'm blogging again, I decided to mention my new book: ntweblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...
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...
ntweblog.blogspot.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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.
June 19, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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).
Any one familiar with this new book by Nina Livesey, which holds that all the letter attributed to Paul are second century? How does it different from the old (and discredited) Dutch Radical School position on Paul?
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context
Cambridge Core - Biblical Studies - New Testament - The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context
www.cambridge.org
June 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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.
June 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
So disappointed.
Today's question: If I'm going to cite a dissertation from The Ohio State University, do I have to include the 'The'?
May 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Today's question: If I'm going to cite a dissertation from The Ohio State University, do I have to include the 'The'?
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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...
On the hunt for your best work on any aspect of early Christianity (100-700CE)!
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/jou...
Journal of Early Christian Studies
Stephen J. Shoemaker, University of Oregon
www.press.jhu.edu
May 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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...
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.
Who’s coming to NAPS?
I’m excited to present my work on Salvian, the only person in antiquity who wrote about his use of an allonym.
Here’s the abstract of “Salvian’s ‘Forgery’ Reconsidered”:
I’m excited to present my work on Salvian, the only person in antiquity who wrote about his use of an allonym.
Here’s the abstract of “Salvian’s ‘Forgery’ Reconsidered”:
May 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Thanks to everyone at the session for your stimulating questions.
Reposted by Stephen C. Carlson
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
Here it is!
www.hugomendez.com
Hugo Méndez – Hugo Méndez, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
www.hugomendez.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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
Here it is!
www.hugomendez.com
Who’s coming to NAPS?
I’m excited to present my work on Salvian, the only person in antiquity who wrote about his use of an allonym.
Here’s the abstract of “Salvian’s ‘Forgery’ Reconsidered”:
I’m excited to present my work on Salvian, the only person in antiquity who wrote about his use of an allonym.
Here’s the abstract of “Salvian’s ‘Forgery’ Reconsidered”:
May 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Who’s coming to NAPS?
I’m excited to present my work on Salvian, the only person in antiquity who wrote about his use of an allonym.
Here’s the abstract of “Salvian’s ‘Forgery’ Reconsidered”:
I’m excited to present my work on Salvian, the only person in antiquity who wrote about his use of an allonym.
Here’s the abstract of “Salvian’s ‘Forgery’ Reconsidered”:
I’m reading a piece that discusses Foucault’s “What is an Author?” and I’m constantly asking myself, “Did we read the same essay?”
May 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I’m reading a piece that discusses Foucault’s “What is an Author?” and I’m constantly asking myself, “Did we read the same essay?”
Reposted by Stephen C. Carlson
one of my first articles was on foucault's author function... almost 3 decades ago (!!!)
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"Solomon's Salacious Song": Foucault's Author Function and the Early Christian Interpretation of the Canticum Canticorum
The transformation of the erotic Song of Songs into a mystical tract on the soul's love for Christ was surely one of the great exegetical feats of late ancient Christianity. Recent work on the politic...
works.hcommons.org
May 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
one of my first articles was on foucault's author function... almost 3 decades ago (!!!)
works.hcommons.org/records/3d3k...
works.hcommons.org/records/3d3k...
Coming to a Harvard Theological Review near you. (And it's open access!)
May 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Coming to a Harvard Theological Review near you. (And it's open access!)
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Good news: teiphy v0.1.21b has been released! (I had to fix some GitHub workflows that didn't work on release v0.1.21a.) It adds support for weighted variation units based on different variation categories, for use in @sccarlson.bsky.social's stemma software. Check it out: github.com/jjmccollum/t...
GitHub - jjmccollum/teiphy: A Python package for converting TEI XML collations to NEXUS, BEAST 2.7 XML, and other formats
A Python package for converting TEI XML collations to NEXUS, BEAST 2.7 XML, and other formats - jjmccollum/teiphy
github.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Good news: teiphy v0.1.21b has been released! (I had to fix some GitHub workflows that didn't work on release v0.1.21a.) It adds support for weighted variation units based on different variation categories, for use in @sccarlson.bsky.social's stemma software. Check it out: github.com/jjmccollum/t...
Come study with us! Fully-funded Ph.D. scholarship opportunity to work on the Late Antique translation of texts.
www.acu.edu.au/research-and...
www.acu.edu.au/research-and...
May 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Come study with us! Fully-funded Ph.D. scholarship opportunity to work on the Late Antique translation of texts.
www.acu.edu.au/research-and...
www.acu.edu.au/research-and...
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Looks like a really fun series
April 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Looks like a really fun series