Matthew R. Crawford
@mcrawford.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Director of Research Program in Biblical and Early Christian Studies, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Melbourne, Australia
It’s publication day! I decided 11 years ago I wanted to do this project and began working on it eight years ago, so it’s gratifying to reach this point. Thanks to all who helped us bring it to fruition.
October 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
It’s publication day! I decided 11 years ago I wanted to do this project and began working on it eight years ago, so it’s gratifying to reach this point. Thanks to all who helped us bring it to fruition.
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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...
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The oldest Jewish cemetery in the UK, dating back to the Norman Conquest, was just discovered. www.jpost.com/history/arti...
Ancient Jewish cemetery discovered in UK near Roman ruins | The Jerusalem Post
The cemetery, discovered on the Barbican estate, is understood to date back to 1070 and is located near ancient Roman walls.
www.jpost.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The oldest Jewish cemetery in the UK, dating back to the Norman Conquest, was just discovered. www.jpost.com/history/arti...
There is still one week to go before the application deadline for our two job openings in biblical and early Christian studies (15 August). Please spread the word! I would be glad to speak with anyone who has questions about the positions.
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!
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow (Early Christianity) - Vacancy Details
candidate.aurion.cloud
August 8, 2025 at 6:43 AM
There is still one week to go before the application deadline for our two job openings in biblical and early Christian studies (15 August). Please spread the word! I would be glad to speak with anyone who has questions about the positions.
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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.
Back in my happy place at the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome with the reading room all to myself today.
July 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Back in my happy place at the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome with the reading room all to myself today.
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11th July is the feast of St Benedict and here is the earliest extant copy of the Rule of St Benedict.
Bodleian Library MS. Hatton 48; Rule of St. Benedict; c.700 CE (?); England (Canterbury?); f.1r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Bodleian Library MS. Hatton 48; Rule of St. Benedict; c.700 CE (?); England (Canterbury?); f.1r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
11th July is the feast of St Benedict and here is the earliest extant copy of the Rule of St Benedict.
Bodleian Library MS. Hatton 48; Rule of St. Benedict; c.700 CE (?); England (Canterbury?); f.1r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Bodleian Library MS. Hatton 48; Rule of St. Benedict; c.700 CE (?); England (Canterbury?); f.1r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
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I can tell you from experience that the IRCI is a beautiful place to work! Don't miss this opportunity!
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!
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow (Early Christianity) - Vacancy Details
candidate.aurion.cloud
July 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I can tell you from experience that the IRCI is a beautiful place to work! Don't miss this opportunity!
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!
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow (Early Christianity) - Vacancy Details
candidate.aurion.cloud
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!
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...
A small discovery: the Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität includes an entry for εὐάγγελμα with a single ref: Didymus, De Trin 1.29.8. The term shows up nowhere else in TLG. The ms actually reads ἐπαγγέλματα which was misread in the 1769 editio princeps and a new ed in 1975.
June 16, 2025 at 6:19 AM
A small discovery: the Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität includes an entry for εὐάγγελμα with a single ref: Didymus, De Trin 1.29.8. The term shows up nowhere else in TLG. The ms actually reads ἐπαγγέλματα which was misread in the 1769 editio princeps and a new ed in 1975.
So far the standard version of Copilot (@msftresearch.bsky.social) can't transcribe an 11th c Greek manuscript and in fact made up a completely different text it claimed was the transcription. Seems to have picked up βασιλέα from the first line, misread it as a similar word, and then ran with it.
June 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
So far the standard version of Copilot (@msftresearch.bsky.social) can't transcribe an 11th c Greek manuscript and in fact made up a completely different text it claimed was the transcription. Seems to have picked up βασιλέα from the first line, misread it as a similar word, and then ran with it.
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So, here's the webpage of our project on Gospel harmonies. I will be working with a wonderful advisory board, including my wonderful Doktormutter @joantaylor.bsky.social, and @mcrawford.bsky.social .
mf.no/en/ungos
mf.no/en/ungos
Unconventional Gospels | MF
A Computer–Assisted Analysis of Complex Harmonic Traditions in Newly Discovered Manuscripts
mf.no
June 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
So, here's the webpage of our project on Gospel harmonies. I will be working with a wonderful advisory board, including my wonderful Doktormutter @joantaylor.bsky.social, and @mcrawford.bsky.social .
mf.no/en/ungos
mf.no/en/ungos
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I asked one of supervisors about this (he'd spent some time at Saint Catherine's), and he responded with some relieving news. The Greek papers seem to have gotten the story wrong: newsprime.gr/sina-den-gin... (I had to use Google Translate on the page)
May 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I asked one of supervisors about this (he'd spent some time at Saint Catherine's), and he responded with some relieving news. The Greek papers seem to have gotten the story wrong: newsprime.gr/sina-den-gin... (I had to use Google Translate on the page)
Spotted today at the Vatican Museums. An unusual depiction of the evangelists as oarsmen in a boat with Christ at the helm. Matthew is missing but we have John, Luke, and Mark, the so-called ‘Western’ order of the gospels.
May 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Spotted today at the Vatican Museums. An unusual depiction of the evangelists as oarsmen in a boat with Christ at the helm. Matthew is missing but we have John, Luke, and Mark, the so-called ‘Western’ order of the gospels.
I am delighted to announce that I have received a fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation for a research stay in Tübingen to produce an edition of The Emperor Julian's Against the Galileans and to study its 20th c. reception, including a German translation from the Third Reich.
May 16, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I am delighted to announce that I have received a fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation for a research stay in Tübingen to produce an edition of The Emperor Julian's Against the Galileans and to study its 20th c. reception, including a German translation from the Third Reich.
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If you like manuscripts, there's lots of interesting stuff in this new open access volume.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Manuscript Treasures from Afro-Eurasia
Throughout the Middle Ages manuscripts were routinely commissioned, copied, illustrated, displayed, read, and transferred across both sides of the Mediterranean. Their significance as vehicles for the...
www.degruyterbrill.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If you like manuscripts, there's lots of interesting stuff in this new open access volume.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Registration is still open for our Makarios conference on Love of Neighbor and Human Flourishing (deadline 15 May) which will take place at ACU’s Rome campus in partnership with Baylor, Harvard, and Boston College! >
April 17, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Registration is still open for our Makarios conference on Love of Neighbor and Human Flourishing (deadline 15 May) which will take place at ACU’s Rome campus in partnership with Baylor, Harvard, and Boston College! >
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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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)
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Join for a hybrid BECS Seminar with Prof. Bronwen Neil on “Sarcophagi on the Street: Burial in the Necropoleis at Roman Ostia” to be held at 11:00 am AEDT on Thursday, 3 April 2025.
March 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Join for a hybrid BECS Seminar with Prof. Bronwen Neil on “Sarcophagi on the Street: Burial in the Necropoleis at Roman Ostia” to be held at 11:00 am AEDT on Thursday, 3 April 2025.
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"Quite simply, this is one of the most important and exciting Iron Age period discoveries made in the UK"
Historic England Press release on the Melsonby hoard 👇👇
historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/ne...
Historic England Press release on the Melsonby hoard 👇👇
historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/ne...
Iron Age Hoard Discovery Alters Our Understanding of Life in Britain 2,000 Years Ago | Historic England
The Melsonby Hoard, a vast deposit of more than 800 items, provides an archaeological time capsule from the Iron Age around 2,000 years ago.
historicengland.org.uk
March 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
"Quite simply, this is one of the most important and exciting Iron Age period discoveries made in the UK"
Historic England Press release on the Melsonby hoard 👇👇
historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/ne...
Historic England Press release on the Melsonby hoard 👇👇
historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/ne...
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Come do a PhD with me (and other excellent colleagues) as part of an ARC-funded project—Night Vision in the Late Ancient Mediterranean! Funded places (fees and stipend) available!
More info here, and reach out with any questions. Applications due Monday 21 April.
www.acu.edu.au/research-and...
More info here, and reach out with any questions. Applications due Monday 21 April.
www.acu.edu.au/research-and...
Night Vision in the Late Ancient Mediterranean
www.acu.edu.au
March 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Come do a PhD with me (and other excellent colleagues) as part of an ARC-funded project—Night Vision in the Late Ancient Mediterranean! Funded places (fees and stipend) available!
More info here, and reach out with any questions. Applications due Monday 21 April.
www.acu.edu.au/research-and...
More info here, and reach out with any questions. Applications due Monday 21 April.
www.acu.edu.au/research-and...
Coming this July. www.cambridge.org/au/universit...
March 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Coming this July. www.cambridge.org/au/universit...
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I’m particularly excited about this piece because it makes extensive use of some extremely important but widely neglected texts: namely, the Pseudo-Athanasian dialogues (which @markdelcogliano.bsky.social and I are translating for CUA), and (Ps-)Didymus, De Trinitate, which (1/2)
I've joined the Substack revolution.
My first act as regent of patristics.substack is to dismantle the scholarly narrative that the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 was a compromise with the Pneumatomachians/Macedonians.
The people asked. I delivered.🤣 patristics.substack.com/p/did-the-cr...
My first act as regent of patristics.substack is to dismantle the scholarly narrative that the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 was a compromise with the Pneumatomachians/Macedonians.
The people asked. I delivered.🤣 patristics.substack.com/p/did-the-cr...
December 1, 2024 at 12:07 PM
I’m particularly excited about this piece because it makes extensive use of some extremely important but widely neglected texts: namely, the Pseudo-Athanasian dialogues (which @markdelcogliano.bsky.social and I are translating for CUA), and (Ps-)Didymus, De Trinitate, which (1/2)
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Congratulations to two teams led by IRCI scholars for Discovery Project grant success from the Australian Research Council totalling almost a half a million dollars!
November 26, 2024 at 5:54 AM
Congratulations to two teams led by IRCI scholars for Discovery Project grant success from the Australian Research Council totalling almost a half a million dollars!