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.
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.
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.
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.
Coming this July. www.cambridge.org/au/universit...
March 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Coming this July. www.cambridge.org/au/universit...
The 78th meeting of SNTS began today @irci.bsky.social with a visit to the National Gallery of Victoria to view the Gospel Book of Theophanes, a 12th c. manuscript from Constantinople that contains a beautiful set of Canon Tables and other decorated pages!
July 23, 2024 at 11:37 AM
The 78th meeting of SNTS began today @irci.bsky.social with a visit to the National Gallery of Victoria to view the Gospel Book of Theophanes, a 12th c. manuscript from Constantinople that contains a beautiful set of Canon Tables and other decorated pages!
My latest: 'The Emperor Julian and Cyril of Alexandria on Human Nature, Ethnicity, and Moral Progress', available open access in ETL 100/1 doi.org/10.2143/ETL....
June 21, 2024 at 1:35 AM
My latest: 'The Emperor Julian and Cyril of Alexandria on Human Nature, Ethnicity, and Moral Progress', available open access in ETL 100/1 doi.org/10.2143/ETL....
Melbourne is abuzz with the arrival of Taylor Swift but in other news this morning at ASCS45 I'll be sharing a sample of a new edition of the De Trinitate treatise attributed to Didymus the Blind. I've been using UV light to try and recover the faded text on the first 3 folios.
February 14, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Melbourne is abuzz with the arrival of Taylor Swift but in other news this morning at ASCS45 I'll be sharing a sample of a new edition of the De Trinitate treatise attributed to Didymus the Blind. I've been using UV light to try and recover the faded text on the first 3 folios.
Just off an 18 hour flight from Australia and stopped in the Cambridge University Press book store. Was delighted to find this on display. This volume has been in the making for 7 years and was finally published two weeks ago. Further details here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
November 12, 2023 at 1:29 PM
Just off an 18 hour flight from Australia and stopped in the Cambridge University Press book store. Was delighted to find this on display. This volume has been in the making for 7 years and was finally published two weeks ago. Further details here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...