T.C. Schmidt
@ProfTCSchmidt
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Yale PhD | Princeton University Visiting Fellow (2025-2026) | Fairfield University Associate Professor
Joined March 2025
Today is the US launch of Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ (Oxford). The book, however, is already SOLD OUT! Oxford is printing new copies. Due to a generous donor, you can get a free digital copy at https://t.co/U7IeYBm6it
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I saw a fragment of the Parian Marble @AshmoleanMuseum the other day, it is a Greek Chronography that undergirds much of how we know when events happened in Greek history. For a fabulous website on it, see https://t.co/UZjB8I7Pjh
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Stephen is an excellent scholar, this should be good!
PROOFS TIME! This time for Baylor UP's _A Handbook to Second-Century Christianity_ (ed. Bird and Harrower).
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Thomas Schmidt, "Jesus in the Writings of Josephus: Stylistic and Social Networking Analysis", Seminar on Jewish History & Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period, 2 PM Tuesday 4 November, OCHJS and Zoom.
ochjs.ac.uk
Michaelmas Term 2025 Weeks 2-6, Week 8 Tuesdays from 14:00-15:30 Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Institute, Walton Street Oxford, OX1 2HG All lectures will be presented in a hybrid format...
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Forgive the multiple postings (if you see them), this is the third time I posted the above and for some reason the previous two are not showing up despite the fact that they have gotten a couple likes
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New section of Hadrian's Wall discovered https://t.co/O2DFGBFnVC
bbc.com
Volunteers uncover a section of Hadrian's Wall at Drumburgh, near Carlisle.
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On Tuesday 11/4 I'll be speaking at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies on my book, Josephus and Jesus — stop by if you are in the area. https://t.co/iPDzvX8GXf
ochjs.ac.uk
Michaelmas Term 2025 Weeks 2-6, Week 8 Tuesdays from 14:00-15:30 Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Institute, Walton Street Oxford, OX1 2HG All lectures will be presented in a hybrid format...
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Amazing! Millions of artifacts available for research online:
timesofisrael.com
Antiquities Authority archive offers scholars and the public free access to artifacts, images and 3D models of sites, making Israel’s trove of ancient history accessible worldwide
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700 BC cuneiform inscription found near Temple Mount echoes Biblical account of 2 Kings. https://t.co/KFCiTrc94Y
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Simply beautiful gold coin of the Ptolemaic Queen Berenice II was recently discovered in Jerusalem https://t.co/n1e8OYR24X
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A 6th-century manuscript containing a Syriac translation of Plutarch's "How to Profit from One's Enemies" (Mor. 6) from St. Catherine's of Sinai. (n.b. Plutarch's works were never translated into Arabic.)
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Greece, Egypt agree on future of monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Greek PM says | The Times of Israel
timesofisrael.com
Agreement comes after Athens expressed concern about plans by Egypt to develop a tourism project around the site, where, by Biblical tradition, Moses received the Torah
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Honestly one of the best books I've read in the past decade.
For twenty years I’ve taught the standard scholarly view of the Testimonium Flavianum — the short passage about Jesus in the first-century Jewish historian Josephus. The consensus says Josephus wrote a brief, neutral remark about Jesus, later “improved” by a naughty Christian
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On October 8 4:30-6 PM, I'll be presenting on my book Josephus and Jesus at Princeton University (@Princeton ) courtesy of the Hellenic Studies Program and the Committee for the Study of Lake Antiquity. If you are in the area, please stop by! https://t.co/m3uOa8RikY
csla.princeton.edu
This lecture distills Schmidt’s book Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ (Oxford University Press, 2025), which brings to light an extraordinary connection between Jesus of...
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Screwtape evidently survived World War II and has kept up his correspondence. Now he is recalibrating in the age of social media. A good read!
A recent letter would seem to suggest that Screwtape also keeps up with the news cycle: https://t.co/OaQn8VqxBG
@AdFontesJournal
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About the talk The presentation examines the main Greek texts on the doctrine of the Antichrist — from Irenaeus and Hippolytus to Philip Monotropos — and the role the Apocalypse plays in articulating that doctrine. It concludes that the doctrine arose independently of the
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I am hosting our inaugural season 3 session of the Revelation Reception Network Seminar @apocalypsesem commencing Thursday (Oct 2) at 5pm Germany time (11am US Eastern). We are honored to have Prof. Dr. John Lamoreaux (SMU) to present on "Apocalypse & the Doctrine of the
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