Mark DelCogliano
@markdelcogliano.bsky.social
Professor & Chair, Dept. of Theology, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN | Early & Late Antique Christianity, Theological Debates & Developments, Scriptural Exegesis | Translator of ancient texts | Early riser | Slow reader | Classical guitarist
Pinned
Dual language editions on facing pages. Coming late 2025 or early 2026:
Phoebadius, Contra Arianos (DelCogliano)
Apollinarius, Kata Meros Pistos (Kelley Spoerl)
Theodore, Debate with Macedonians (Matt Crawford)
Phoebadius, Contra Arianos (DelCogliano)
Apollinarius, Kata Meros Pistos (Kelley Spoerl)
Theodore, Debate with Macedonians (Matt Crawford)
Those members of NAPS whose membership is current should have received an email today about the 2026 meeting. For those who did not receive the email, renew your membership; and you can view the email at www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...
Please share widely with your network & on social media.
Please share widely with your network & on social media.
Call for Papers – NAPS – The North American Patristics Society
www.patristics.org
August 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Those members of NAPS whose membership is current should have received an email today about the 2026 meeting. For those who did not receive the email, renew your membership; and you can view the email at www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...
Please share widely with your network & on social media.
Please share widely with your network & on social media.
All faculty consultations about some new project are basically this: I don’t have a strong opinion, I support those who want to do it, I personally don’t want to be involved, and there’s no way I am leading it.
May 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
All faculty consultations about some new project are basically this: I don’t have a strong opinion, I support those who want to do it, I personally don’t want to be involved, and there’s no way I am leading it.
Reposted by Mark DelCogliano
hey NAPS members! you should have gotten an email from President David Brakke asking for your honest thoughts on what is important to you in our conference we we can find a more economically sustainable path! make your voice heard!
didn't get the email? check your membership status!
didn't get the email? check your membership status!
May 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
hey NAPS members! you should have gotten an email from President David Brakke asking for your honest thoughts on what is important to you in our conference we we can find a more economically sustainable path! make your voice heard!
didn't get the email? check your membership status!
didn't get the email? check your membership status!
"'Do not despise' he took from common usage, some people being accustomed to say, I despised so-and-so, that is, I was pleased to see him struggling with problems." Theodoret of Cyrus, Commentary on Obadiah (trans. C. Hill, p. 131). So the ancients knew about schadenfreude.
May 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"'Do not despise' he took from common usage, some people being accustomed to say, I despised so-and-so, that is, I was pleased to see him struggling with problems." Theodoret of Cyrus, Commentary on Obadiah (trans. C. Hill, p. 131). So the ancients knew about schadenfreude.
This seems like a watershed moment regarding the cultural hegemony of English and the advent of reliable AI translation. bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.05...
Changes to BMCR’s language policy – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
bmcr.brynmawr.edu
May 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This seems like a watershed moment regarding the cultural hegemony of English and the advent of reliable AI translation. bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.05...
Reposted by Mark DelCogliano
You can only see the dust jacket here, but there /is/ a marvelous snake on the cover itself.
The Pearlsong — Harvard University Press
The Pearlsong is an ancient poem that recounts the story of a Parthian prince sent by his parents on a mission to Egypt to retrieve a pearl from the clutches of a giant serpent. Along the way, the pri...
www.hup.harvard.edu
May 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
You can only see the dust jacket here, but there /is/ a marvelous snake on the cover itself.
Reposted by Mark DelCogliano
I wrote a short piece on Easter and the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea
www.abc.net.au/religion/170...
www.abc.net.au/religion/170...
Is the 1700th anniversary of Nicaea an opportunity to reestablish a common date for Easter? - ABC Religion & Ethics
This year is not only the 1,700th anniversary of the first ecumenical council of the church, but also one of the years when Catholic and Orthodox Easter celebrations coincide — an occasion to reflect ...
www.abc.net.au
April 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I wrote a short piece on Easter and the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea
www.abc.net.au/religion/170...
www.abc.net.au/religion/170...
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Read about Eustathius and his unique contribution to the debates around Arius here: www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...
On The Forgotten Nicene: Eustathius Of Antioch
What is Nicaea about? Most modern accounts will focus on the theological debate between Arius and Alexander of Alexandria, but the nature of the
www.patheos.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Read about Eustathius and his unique contribution to the debates around Arius here: www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...
Dual language editions on facing pages. Coming late 2025 or early 2026:
Phoebadius, Contra Arianos (DelCogliano)
Apollinarius, Kata Meros Pistos (Kelley Spoerl)
Theodore, Debate with Macedonians (Matt Crawford)
Phoebadius, Contra Arianos (DelCogliano)
Apollinarius, Kata Meros Pistos (Kelley Spoerl)
Theodore, Debate with Macedonians (Matt Crawford)
April 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Dual language editions on facing pages. Coming late 2025 or early 2026:
Phoebadius, Contra Arianos (DelCogliano)
Apollinarius, Kata Meros Pistos (Kelley Spoerl)
Theodore, Debate with Macedonians (Matt Crawford)
Phoebadius, Contra Arianos (DelCogliano)
Apollinarius, Kata Meros Pistos (Kelley Spoerl)
Theodore, Debate with Macedonians (Matt Crawford)
A monumental achievement and contribution!
Coming this July. www.cambridge.org/au/universit...
March 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A monumental achievement and contribution!
Early Christianity folks: I've come across an allusion in a 4th-cen. text to God delivering Paul from the Samaritans. This doesn't seem to refer to a canonical text; any ideas what it's talking about?
February 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Early Christianity folks: I've come across an allusion in a 4th-cen. text to God delivering Paul from the Samaritans. This doesn't seem to refer to a canonical text; any ideas what it's talking about?
It is wonderful to have these mss. freely available online -- and even downloadable. Last year I paid for access to study VLF 58, which is the only ms. which preserves Phoebadius's Contra Arrianos, a new edition of which I have forthcoming.
www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...
www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...
More than 300 medieval manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Vossiana now available in open access - Leiden University
The most important group of medieval manuscripts from the Special Collections of the University Libraries of Leiden (UBL), the Codices Vossiani Latini, is now available in open access via the Digital ...
www.library.universiteitleiden.nl
January 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It is wonderful to have these mss. freely available online -- and even downloadable. Last year I paid for access to study VLF 58, which is the only ms. which preserves Phoebadius's Contra Arrianos, a new edition of which I have forthcoming.
www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...
www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...
Manuscript people, if you're trying to discover new mss. that preserve a particular Latin text, where do you turn? What resources do you use? Is there nothing like Pinakes for Greek texts?
January 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Manuscript people, if you're trying to discover new mss. that preserve a particular Latin text, where do you turn? What resources do you use? Is there nothing like Pinakes for Greek texts?
Reposted by Mark DelCogliano
Anyone able to decipher the word circled in red? "....(H)er(aclianus) dixit: hoc ad ????? felicitatem et ad gloriam meam pertinet...."
January 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Anyone able to decipher the word circled in red? "....(H)er(aclianus) dixit: hoc ad ????? felicitatem et ad gloriam meam pertinet...."
Anyone able to decipher the word circled in red? "....(H)er(aclianus) dixit: hoc ad ????? felicitatem et ad gloriam meam pertinet...."
January 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Anyone able to decipher the word circled in red? "....(H)er(aclianus) dixit: hoc ad ????? felicitatem et ad gloriam meam pertinet...."
Manuscript experts: Where does one find a ms. referred to as "Stuttgartensis Theol. 4°, 260"? Any chance this is digitized?
January 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Manuscript experts: Where does one find a ms. referred to as "Stuttgartensis Theol. 4°, 260"? Any chance this is digitized?
At Epiphany mass today the priest was speaking of the magi beholding "the powerless infant," but then corrected himself, saying, "well, powerless in appearance." I spent the rest of mass considering whether the correction accords with Neo-Chalcedonian Christology. What do you think?
January 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
At Epiphany mass today the priest was speaking of the magi beholding "the powerless infant," but then corrected himself, saying, "well, powerless in appearance." I spent the rest of mass considering whether the correction accords with Neo-Chalcedonian Christology. What do you think?
At my parents in NC to celebrate my Dad's 80th. I mistakenly used a "show" towel to wash my hands.
January 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
At my parents in NC to celebrate my Dad's 80th. I mistakenly used a "show" towel to wash my hands.
A major publication! Cyril’s massive Contra Julianum in English for the first time!
Just saw that @mcrawford.bsky.social's translation of Cyril's Against Julian is due to come out in July 2025! Can't wait for this.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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December 23, 2024 at 1:53 PM
A major publication! Cyril’s massive Contra Julianum in English for the first time!
“History is merely a repetition of the same facts applied to different men at different times.” Chateaubriand, Memoirs 22.16, comparing Napoleon to Nero.
December 23, 2024 at 1:45 PM
“History is merely a repetition of the same facts applied to different men at different times.” Chateaubriand, Memoirs 22.16, comparing Napoleon to Nero.
Thanks, Sarah, for bringing this to our attention. For those who attend NAPS in May, the exhibit will be going on at the Art Institute.
December 20, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Thanks, Sarah, for bringing this to our attention. For those who attend NAPS in May, the exhibit will be going on at the Art Institute.
Reposted by Mark DelCogliano
inaugurating a new series, out next summer in hard copy + open-access PDF:
on the so-called hymn of the pearl, with Syriac & Greek texts + English translations, Syriac & Greek glossaries, and commentary (incl. a lot of Manichaean texts) 🐍
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
on the so-called hymn of the pearl, with Syriac & Greek texts + English translations, Syriac & Greek glossaries, and commentary (incl. a lot of Manichaean texts) 🐍
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
The Pearlsong — Harvard University Press
The Pearlsong is an ancient poem that recounts the story of a Parthian prince sent by his parents on a mission to Egypt to retrieve a pearl from the clutches of a giant serpent. Along the way, the pri...
www.hup.harvard.edu
December 20, 2024 at 1:26 PM
inaugurating a new series, out next summer in hard copy + open-access PDF:
on the so-called hymn of the pearl, with Syriac & Greek texts + English translations, Syriac & Greek glossaries, and commentary (incl. a lot of Manichaean texts) 🐍
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
on the so-called hymn of the pearl, with Syriac & Greek texts + English translations, Syriac & Greek glossaries, and commentary (incl. a lot of Manichaean texts) 🐍
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
New arrival today from Dr. Storin himself! Congratulations!
December 16, 2024 at 2:51 PM
New arrival today from Dr. Storin himself! Congratulations!