Stephen C. Carlson
@sccarlson.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Biblical and Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University (Ph.D. Duke, New Testament, 2012). Många bäckar små gör en stor å.
It’s proofs time! How about another piece on Papias, this time looking looking at his presbyters?
August 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It’s proofs time! How about another piece on Papias, this time looking looking at his presbyters?
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 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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...
I have to say I was fairly impressed with Seesengood's little guide to Philemon. He does a good job of introducing students to different and fraught ways of reading a text when we know so little about its context.
June 19, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I have to say I was fairly impressed with Seesengood's little guide to Philemon. He does a good job of introducing students to different and fraught ways of reading a text when we know so little about its context.
So disappointed.
June 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
So disappointed.
Who’s coming to NAPS?
I’m excited to present my work on Salvian, the only person in antiquity who wrote about his use of an allonym.
Here’s the abstract of “Salvian’s ‘Forgery’ Reconsidered”:
I’m excited to present my work on Salvian, the only person in antiquity who wrote about his use of an allonym.
Here’s the abstract of “Salvian’s ‘Forgery’ Reconsidered”:
May 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Who’s coming to NAPS?
I’m excited to present my work on Salvian, the only person in antiquity who wrote about his use of an allonym.
Here’s the abstract of “Salvian’s ‘Forgery’ Reconsidered”:
I’m excited to present my work on Salvian, the only person in antiquity who wrote about his use of an allonym.
Here’s the abstract of “Salvian’s ‘Forgery’ Reconsidered”:
Coming to a Harvard Theological Review near you. (And it's open access!)
May 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Coming to a Harvard Theological Review near you. (And it's open access!)
Come study with us! Fully-funded Ph.D. scholarship opportunity to work on the Late Antique translation of texts.
www.acu.edu.au/research-and...
www.acu.edu.au/research-and...
May 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Come study with us! Fully-funded Ph.D. scholarship opportunity to work on the Late Antique translation of texts.
www.acu.edu.au/research-and...
www.acu.edu.au/research-and...
I'll be talking about paratexts at the Chester Beatty museum on 19 November 2025 in their Manuscripts and the Mind Lecture Series.
April 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I'll be talking about paratexts at the Chester Beatty museum on 19 November 2025 in their Manuscripts and the Mind Lecture Series.
I'm be at NAPS in Chicago, talking about pseudonymity. See you there.
February 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I'm be at NAPS in Chicago, talking about pseudonymity. See you there.
Coming to an HTR near you
February 19, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Coming to an HTR near you
Trying to get DeepSeek to parse Latin. It is really thick:
(No, "erat" is not a conditional, second-person present.)
(No, "erat" is not a conditional, second-person present.)
January 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Trying to get DeepSeek to parse Latin. It is really thick:
(No, "erat" is not a conditional, second-person present.)
(No, "erat" is not a conditional, second-person present.)
Looks like editors have differed, and for a long time. Matt 7:4-5 and Luke 6:42 are the only places where σου in the enclitic position has the emphatic accent as σοῦ. I'm skeptical.
January 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Looks like editors have differed, and for a long time. Matt 7:4-5 and Luke 6:42 are the only places where σου in the enclitic position has the emphatic accent as σοῦ. I'm skeptical.
What's going on with the circumflex accents over the 3rd and 4th instances of σου in Matt 7:3-4?
January 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
What's going on with the circumflex accents over the 3rd and 4th instances of σου in Matt 7:3-4?
It's kind of cool that Bart Ehrman "incorrectly" cites the Matthew ICC commentary by Davies and Allison with Dale's name first, because he did the actual work. (Davies got the contract).
I myself prefer to cite the commentary properly the first time, yet adding "(hereinafter Allison, Matthew)."
I myself prefer to cite the commentary properly the first time, yet adding "(hereinafter Allison, Matthew)."
January 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
It's kind of cool that Bart Ehrman "incorrectly" cites the Matthew ICC commentary by Davies and Allison with Dale's name first, because he did the actual work. (Davies got the contract).
I myself prefer to cite the commentary properly the first time, yet adding "(hereinafter Allison, Matthew)."
I myself prefer to cite the commentary properly the first time, yet adding "(hereinafter Allison, Matthew)."
Mourning the loss of Prof. Richard B. Hays. RIP
January 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Mourning the loss of Prof. Richard B. Hays. RIP
Does anyone know why Microsoft OneDrive search returns multiple results for the exact file? This search quintupled the results and they are all the same exact file in the same exact place.
December 31, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Does anyone know why Microsoft OneDrive search returns multiple results for the exact file? This search quintupled the results and they are all the same exact file in the same exact place.
I plotted a moving window of 101 agreements of W 032 against 01 (Blue) and against Π 041 (Orange) in Mark, using the ECM data. There is a clear point of change (long observed) around the end of Mark 4.
December 30, 2024 at 10:58 PM
I plotted a moving window of 101 agreements of W 032 against 01 (Blue) and against Π 041 (Orange) in Mark, using the ECM data. There is a clear point of change (long observed) around the end of Mark 4.
It's that time of the year again.
December 23, 2024 at 2:09 AM
It's that time of the year again.
From the new Pauline Studies Survey on Paul’s involvement in the letters attributed to him, as a map of the scholarly landscape, no real surprises.
December 12, 2024 at 11:02 PM
From the new Pauline Studies Survey on Paul’s involvement in the letters attributed to him, as a map of the scholarly landscape, no real surprises.
Which Latin orthography do you prefer for consonantaI I/J & U/V?
And why is it I and V?
And why is it I and V?
November 26, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Which Latin orthography do you prefer for consonantaI I/J & U/V?
And why is it I and V?
And why is it I and V?
Here's the title and scholar of the talk.
November 24, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Here's the title and scholar of the talk.
