Joey McCollum
@joeymccollum.bsky.social
PhD candidate at ACU, applying Bayesian phylogenetics to Ephesians · Developer of the open-cbgm and teiphy libraries · Co-translator of Acts of John (Brepols) and The Tale of Peter Rabbit in Koine Greek (Gorgias) · https://github.com/jjmccollum
I look forward to eleven more days of this! @brentniedergall.bsky.social is a fantastic colleague, and he frequently posts great stuff on his blog!
The Twelve Reads of Christmas – Day 1 - Brent Niedergall
The Twelve Reads of Christmas – Day 1 - Brent Niedergall
I’m kicking off a series of twelve December posts, highlighting a range of reading recommendations that come from the field of biblical studies, as well as from twentieth-century fiction. Each day’s…
niedergall.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I look forward to eleven more days of this! @brentniedergall.bsky.social is a fantastic colleague, and he frequently posts great stuff on his blog!
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We now have a website for the project I've been working on the with Garrick Allen, Emanuele Scieri, and Maxim Venetskov on Codex H, the manuscript preserving the earliest Greek evidence of the Euthalian annotation and presentation system for the New Testament.
codexh.arts.gla.ac.uk#/home
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codexh.arts.gla.ac.uk#/home
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Annotating the New Testament
codexh.arts.gla.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
We now have a website for the project I've been working on the with Garrick Allen, Emanuele Scieri, and Maxim Venetskov on Codex H, the manuscript preserving the earliest Greek evidence of the Euthalian annotation and presentation system for the New Testament.
codexh.arts.gla.ac.uk#/home
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codexh.arts.gla.ac.uk#/home
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No #AARSBL25 for me, but @annakawm.bsky.social and I are having a wonderful time visiting my family through Thanksgiving! 😄 We joined my mom on the assembly line for (early) Christmas cookies a couple days ago.
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
No #AARSBL25 for me, but @annakawm.bsky.social and I are having a wonderful time visiting my family through Thanksgiving! 😄 We joined my mom on the assembly line for (early) Christmas cookies a couple days ago.
The #CHR2025 proceedings are now freely available online! They include the paper that @sofiemoors.bsky.social and I wrote on applying Bayesian phylogenetics to the medieval Dutch Martijn Trilogy. You can check out our paper at doi.org/10.63744/vBR...!
November 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The #CHR2025 proceedings are now freely available online! They include the paper that @sofiemoors.bsky.social and I wrote on applying Bayesian phylogenetics to the medieval Dutch Martijn Trilogy. You can check out our paper at doi.org/10.63744/vBR...!
Wish I could attend in person! If you're going to be at #CHR2025 this December, you should go to Session 2A on Wednesday to hear @sofiemoors.bsky.social discuss how we applied Bayesian phylogenetics to a medieval Dutch text!
🗓️ The #CHR2025 programme is online! Browse what’s on the menu here: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/
Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November! #computationalhumanitiesresearch
Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November! #computationalhumanitiesresearch
November 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Wish I could attend in person! If you're going to be at #CHR2025 this December, you should go to Session 2A on Wednesday to hear @sofiemoors.bsky.social discuss how we applied Bayesian phylogenetics to a medieval Dutch text!
I'm excited to share that the paper I co-authored with @sofiemoors.bsky.social, "From a Computer-Assisted Stemma to a Phylogenetic Tree: The Medieval Dutch Martijn Trilogy by Jacob van Maerlant," has been accepted for the #CHR2025 conference! Thanks to the anonymous referees for their kind feedback!
September 23, 2025 at 6:11 AM
I'm excited to share that the paper I co-authored with @sofiemoors.bsky.social, "From a Computer-Assisted Stemma to a Phylogenetic Tree: The Medieval Dutch Martijn Trilogy by Jacob van Maerlant," has been accepted for the #CHR2025 conference! Thanks to the anonymous referees for their kind feedback!
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It’s almost October! Join us for NASSCAL’s First Friday Workshop with Ian Mills. @nasscal.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It’s almost October! Join us for NASSCAL’s First Friday Workshop with Ian Mills. @nasscal.bsky.social
I haven't yet left Academia.edu, but I don't plan to accept their new terms of service. Since others have been sharing their new accounts on Knowledge Commons, I thought I might also share that I've had an account on there for a while now: hcommons.org/members/jjmc.... Hope to see you there!
Joey McCollum – Knowledge Commons
hcommons.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I haven't yet left Academia.edu, but I don't plan to accept their new terms of service. Since others have been sharing their new accounts on Knowledge Commons, I thought I might also share that I've had an account on there for a while now: hcommons.org/members/jjmc.... Hope to see you there!
This may be a shot in the dark, but for anyone at the
@teiconsortium.bsky.social conference in Kraków who knows Koine Greek: I'd love to get a few pictures of some New Testament manuscripts at the Jagiellonian Library. If you're able to help out, please reply here, and I'll send you details!
@teiconsortium.bsky.social conference in Kraków who knows Koine Greek: I'd love to get a few pictures of some New Testament manuscripts at the Jagiellonian Library. If you're able to help out, please reply here, and I'll send you details!
September 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This may be a shot in the dark, but for anyone at the
@teiconsortium.bsky.social conference in Kraków who knows Koine Greek: I'd love to get a few pictures of some New Testament manuscripts at the Jagiellonian Library. If you're able to help out, please reply here, and I'll send you details!
@teiconsortium.bsky.social conference in Kraków who knows Koine Greek: I'd love to get a few pictures of some New Testament manuscripts at the Jagiellonian Library. If you're able to help out, please reply here, and I'll send you details!
Some valuable perspective from my colleague Jonathan Zecher on the meaning of martyrdom and its relevance to a contentious political topic.
ICRI's Assoc. Prof. Jonathan Zecher on Charlie Kirk and martyrdom from a historical perspective.
theconversation.com/can-charlie-...
theconversation.com/can-charlie-...
Can Charlie Kirk really be considered a ‘martyr’? A Christianity historian explains
Some have even called Kirk a patron saint of MAGA. Stories of his status as a ‘martyr’ are uniting America’s Christian right.
theconversation.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Some valuable perspective from my colleague Jonathan Zecher on the meaning of martyrdom and its relevance to a contentious political topic.
ACU is a spectacular place to study, and I was able to move to Australia and do my research there debt-free thanks to generous funding! If you're interested in doing a PhD, especially in biblical studies or church history, you should apply!
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 1:03 AM
ACU is a spectacular place to study, and I was able to move to Australia and do my research there debt-free thanks to generous funding! If you're interested in doing a PhD, especially in biblical studies or church history, you should apply!
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Please join us for the next meeting in our 2025 BECS Global online seminar series here at ACU/IRCI, with Dr Amelia Brown (MQ/American Academy at Athens) on “When Early Christianity met Imperial Power: New Attributes of Roman Emperors from Constantine I to Theodosius.”
September 8, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Please join us for the next meeting in our 2025 BECS Global online seminar series here at ACU/IRCI, with Dr Amelia Brown (MQ/American Academy at Athens) on “When Early Christianity met Imperial Power: New Attributes of Roman Emperors from Constantine I to Theodosius.”
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Issue 67.4 of #NovumTestamentum is out!
From salt in Matthew to the History of the Codex Alexandrinus, this issue covers it all!
Check it out here: brill.com/view/journal...
📜 #CriticalBible
From salt in Matthew to the History of the Codex Alexandrinus, this issue covers it all!
Check it out here: brill.com/view/journal...
📜 #CriticalBible
September 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Issue 67.4 of #NovumTestamentum is out!
From salt in Matthew to the History of the Codex Alexandrinus, this issue covers it all!
Check it out here: brill.com/view/journal...
📜 #CriticalBible
From salt in Matthew to the History of the Codex Alexandrinus, this issue covers it all!
Check it out here: brill.com/view/journal...
📜 #CriticalBible
This is some fantastic research on an important NT manuscript, and it shows just how crucial paratexts can be in uncovering the history and likely origins of textual witnesses! Give it a read!
Where did Codex Alexandrinus come from? why is its NT canon so peculiar, why was 1 Clement there? who was Thecla and how did the British Ambassador to the Ottomans Thomas Roe tamper with its history? some of several questions this new Open Access article will answer.
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This is some fantastic research on an important NT manuscript, and it shows just how crucial paratexts can be in uncovering the history and likely origins of textual witnesses! Give it a read!
It's done: I've submitted my PhD thesis on the text and transmission history of Ephesians! It will probably be two months or more before I receive the external reviewers' feedback and can share a final version with people, but for now, I can share the title and abstract pages!
September 1, 2025 at 5:11 AM
It's done: I've submitted my PhD thesis on the text and transmission history of Ephesians! It will probably be two months or more before I receive the external reviewers' feedback and can share a final version with people, but for now, I can share the title and abstract pages!
I'm excited to announce that I've accepted a postdoctoral scholarship at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! I'll be expanding on my PhD research on the tradition of Ephesians and contributing to the BICROSS project (theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...). I look forward to joining the team in January!
Project Information
theo.kuleuven.be
August 27, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I'm excited to announce that I've accepted a postdoctoral scholarship at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! I'll be expanding on my PhD research on the tradition of Ephesians and contributing to the BICROSS project (theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...). I look forward to joining the team in January!
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Dear colleagues, my new book on Mark's ending is now available for free (Open Access) thanks to the @snsf.ch Open Access grant number 235752. Please feel free to download and read. Enjoy!
doi.org/10.1163/9789...
doi.org/10.1163/9789...
August 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Dear colleagues, my new book on Mark's ending is now available for free (Open Access) thanks to the @snsf.ch Open Access grant number 235752. Please feel free to download and read. Enjoy!
doi.org/10.1163/9789...
doi.org/10.1163/9789...
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The 2025 Semester 2 schedule for the BECS Global Seminar is set, with presentations by Bernadette Brooten (Brandeis), Amelia Brown (MQ and AAA), Paul Trebilco (Otago), Ben Edsall (ACU), and Paul Roche (Sydney).
August 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The 2025 Semester 2 schedule for the BECS Global Seminar is set, with presentations by Bernadette Brooten (Brandeis), Amelia Brown (MQ and AAA), Paul Trebilco (Otago), Ben Edsall (ACU), and Paul Roche (Sydney).
Huh, I guess they have achieved PhD-level consciousness.
Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well:
‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments
Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."
www.businessinsider.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Huh, I guess they have achieved PhD-level consciousness.
The results are in, and I'm pleased to announce that Emily Fero-Kovassy is the Runner-up of this year's 3-Minute Thesis competition (and the recipient of $2,000)! Congrats to her and all of the placing ACU finalists!
August 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The results are in, and I'm pleased to announce that Emily Fero-Kovassy is the Runner-up of this year's 3-Minute Thesis competition (and the recipient of $2,000)! Congrats to her and all of the placing ACU finalists!
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.
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!
A new release of teiphy (v0.1.23) has recently been published, adding support for further tabular formats in conjunction with the feature additions in v0.1.22! You can access the code at github.com/jjmccollum/t... or install the latest version with
pip install teiphy --upgrade
pip install teiphy --upgrade
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
July 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
A new release of teiphy (v0.1.23) has recently been published, adding support for further tabular formats in conjunction with the feature additions in v0.1.22! You can access the code at github.com/jjmccollum/t... or install the latest version with
pip install teiphy --upgrade
pip install teiphy --upgrade
It's time again for ACU's 3-Minute Thesis competition! We have five finalists this year, including a fantastic presentation on purity and immersion in second-temple Judaism by my colleague Emily Fero-Kovassy. See the videos and cast your People's Choice vote at acu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...!
2025 ACU 3MT People's Choice Award
Cast your vote below for the 2025 ACU 3MT People's Choice Award.
acu.qualtrics.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It's time again for ACU's 3-Minute Thesis competition! We have five finalists this year, including a fantastic presentation on purity and immersion in second-temple Judaism by my colleague Emily Fero-Kovassy. See the videos and cast your People's Choice vote at acu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...!
To anyone else who has been experiencing crashes in @vscode.dev due to out-of-memory errors like I have, the bug has been fixed in the latest VS Code Insiders release at code.visualstudio.com/insiders/! Hopefully an update to VS Code with this fix will be released soon.
Download Visual Studio Code Insiders
For early adopters, you can get the latest release of VS Code each day with the Insiders Build. Available on Mac, Linux and Windows.
code.visualstudio.com
July 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
To anyone else who has been experiencing crashes in @vscode.dev due to out-of-memory errors like I have, the bug has been fixed in the latest VS Code Insiders release at code.visualstudio.com/insiders/! Hopefully an update to VS Code with this fix will be released soon.