Jonathan Robinson
@jonrobinnz.bsky.social
χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη
Ostensible Bible Scholar
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa
Publications: https://xenos-theology.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html
Ostensible Bible Scholar
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa
Publications: https://xenos-theology.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html
another one bites the dust
August 1, 2025 at 4:55 AM
another one bites the dust
proofs day!
(first article on Luke, hopefully not the last - although unlike @dorhamidbar.bsky.social I don't already have a prequel lined up)
(first article on Luke, hopefully not the last - although unlike @dorhamidbar.bsky.social I don't already have a prequel lined up)
July 17, 2025 at 3:44 AM
proofs day!
(first article on Luke, hopefully not the last - although unlike @dorhamidbar.bsky.social I don't already have a prequel lined up)
(first article on Luke, hopefully not the last - although unlike @dorhamidbar.bsky.social I don't already have a prequel lined up)
Far out. 400 Euro for a monograph (even as Ebook) - new level of lunacy reached or is this tariffs?
April 28, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Far out. 400 Euro for a monograph (even as Ebook) - new level of lunacy reached or is this tariffs?
My latest uninvited intervention in Pauline Scholarship. 😜 (link in next skeet)
April 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
My latest uninvited intervention in Pauline Scholarship. 😜 (link in next skeet)
Frank Cole Babbitt in 1936 forgot that when translating Plutarch's Greek into English, the English should be easier to read than the Greek!
April 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Frank Cole Babbitt in 1936 forgot that when translating Plutarch's Greek into English, the English should be easier to read than the Greek!
no, you cannot rely on public domain translations from yesteryear where the translator was more concerned with his rhyming scheme than the meaning of the Greek. Monograph citing Athenaeus's Ἄρτεμιν, ἃ γυναικῶν μέγ᾿ ἔχει κράτος but relying on Yonge's 1854 translation. 🤦♂️
April 6, 2025 at 5:00 AM
no, you cannot rely on public domain translations from yesteryear where the translator was more concerned with his rhyming scheme than the meaning of the Greek. Monograph citing Athenaeus's Ἄρτεμιν, ἃ γυναικῶν μέγ᾿ ἔχει κράτος but relying on Yonge's 1854 translation. 🤦♂️
article i'm reading is full of bizarre typographical errors, but i'm quite taken with the idea that Paul taught Eor daily for two years, that could explain his later depressive state in the Poo books.
April 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
article i'm reading is full of bizarre typographical errors, but i'm quite taken with the idea that Paul taught Eor daily for two years, that could explain his later depressive state in the Poo books.
always love it when a journal offers me an open access charge for publishing a book review.
March 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
always love it when a journal offers me an open access charge for publishing a book review.
It's proofs day! :-)
March 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It's proofs day! :-)
sometimes only some ALLCAPS insanity will do the trick
March 17, 2025 at 3:43 AM
sometimes only some ALLCAPS insanity will do the trick
Um, every time i find a typo in a Brill volume or on the website i think, "so that's where all the money goes!"
not on copy-editing anyway.
not on copy-editing anyway.
February 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Um, every time i find a typo in a Brill volume or on the website i think, "so that's where all the money goes!"
not on copy-editing anyway.
not on copy-editing anyway.
this beauty will take you for a walk anytime, anywhere, but preferably at least twice a day and with plenty of interesting things to sniff.
January 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
this beauty will take you for a walk anytime, anywhere, but preferably at least twice a day and with plenty of interesting things to sniff.
so apparently my work on the Gospel of Mark has been making big waves in the field of . . . high energy physics
(to the uninitiated, if you are a published scholar you get a lot of this sort of spam, but usually for fake/predatory journals within some reach of your actual interests)
(to the uninitiated, if you are a published scholar you get a lot of this sort of spam, but usually for fake/predatory journals within some reach of your actual interests)
January 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
so apparently my work on the Gospel of Mark has been making big waves in the field of . . . high energy physics
(to the uninitiated, if you are a published scholar you get a lot of this sort of spam, but usually for fake/predatory journals within some reach of your actual interests)
(to the uninitiated, if you are a published scholar you get a lot of this sort of spam, but usually for fake/predatory journals within some reach of your actual interests)
relevant in every era of music
January 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
relevant in every era of music
from Dr Jill Firth on FB.
December 31, 2024 at 11:10 PM
from Dr Jill Firth on FB.
Quantum physics has been kidnapped, this could explain a lot.
December 28, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Quantum physics has been kidnapped, this could explain a lot.
R U a "philological fundamentalist" or a "literary universalist"?
I wish I'd read Matthew Hauge's Tour of Hell during my PhD, what hilarious terminology to sling at your methodological detractors!
I wish I'd read Matthew Hauge's Tour of Hell during my PhD, what hilarious terminology to sling at your methodological detractors!
December 22, 2024 at 1:05 AM
R U a "philological fundamentalist" or a "literary universalist"?
I wish I'd read Matthew Hauge's Tour of Hell during my PhD, what hilarious terminology to sling at your methodological detractors!
I wish I'd read Matthew Hauge's Tour of Hell during my PhD, what hilarious terminology to sling at your methodological detractors!
"one of the most distinguished scholars in the field" - why, thank you!😊
more evidence of MDPI's seriousness as an academic publisher. (please note, I failed A-Level maths and no one has ever or would ever ask me to do their accounts)
more evidence of MDPI's seriousness as an academic publisher. (please note, I failed A-Level maths and no one has ever or would ever ask me to do their accounts)
December 17, 2024 at 12:59 AM
"one of the most distinguished scholars in the field" - why, thank you!😊
more evidence of MDPI's seriousness as an academic publisher. (please note, I failed A-Level maths and no one has ever or would ever ask me to do their accounts)
more evidence of MDPI's seriousness as an academic publisher. (please note, I failed A-Level maths and no one has ever or would ever ask me to do their accounts)
a helpful insight into British cultural traditions
December 16, 2024 at 12:03 AM
a helpful insight into British cultural traditions
if i set this to song and memorised it, that would save me having to look up the correct wording for these statements every time
December 15, 2024 at 9:21 PM
if i set this to song and memorised it, that would save me having to look up the correct wording for these statements every time
i'm going on leave for a week and will be in the great outdoors somewhere wonderful so you wont see me here for a while. to enhance my own enjoyment through contrast I thought i'll leave this here to make y'all extra miserable:
December 4, 2024 at 12:40 AM
i'm going on leave for a week and will be in the great outdoors somewhere wonderful so you wont see me here for a while. to enhance my own enjoyment through contrast I thought i'll leave this here to make y'all extra miserable:
ICYMI my 2022 article on water miracles in the Gospel of Mark and how they relate to Early Jewish traditions is open access here: t.co/yXA7BZE4VQ comments and questions welcome :-)
December 4, 2024 at 12:38 AM
ICYMI my 2022 article on water miracles in the Gospel of Mark and how they relate to Early Jewish traditions is open access here: t.co/yXA7BZE4VQ comments and questions welcome :-)