Past Richard Lecturers include Peter Brown (2012), Wendy Doniger (1997), Jacob Neusner (1981), Paul Ricoeur (1970), Robert M. Grant (1965), Paul Tillich (1951), and Edgar J. Godspeed (1940). Not bad for a state school!

For those in the Virginia area: please join us for three lectures this week by Margaret M. Mitchell! The Richard Lecture series is very much open to the public! Details on the flyer.

NASSCAL will be electing a new board of directors (executive and members-at-large) at the next First Fridays meeting (October 6). The list of nominees is provided in the link provided. Nominations can also be made from the floor at the meeting.

Sometimes you can’t wait for the next First Friday of the month. Join us for this exceptional Fifth Friday panel discussion of the newly published P.Oxy. 5575 with @JeremiahCoogan, @IanNelsonMills, Brent Nongbri, and Melissa Harl Sellew!

Added to e-Clavis: Manuscripta apocryphorum ~ Baghdad, Chaldean Patriarchate of Baghdad, 377 (1894) feat. Epistle of Lentulus and Epistle of Pilate to Claudius. https://t.co/jBrwAI9ECp

My reading during today’s commute: the proofs for Jacob Lollar’s excellent volume in NASSCAL’s Early Christian Apocrypha series. Fingers crossed that this will be available at SBL in November. @NASSCALtw

I have started an entry on e-Clavis for the new “sayings of Jesus” papyrus. Will keep updating it as the discussion develops.

Added to e-Clavis: Manuscripta apocryphorum ~ Mardin, Church of the Forty Martyrs, 253 (13/14 c.) feat. Story of Clement (epitome of Ps.-Clem.), Ep. Dionysius to Timothy, excerpt from Acts Thecla. https://t.co/M7Bnkx8vIl

The editors of #POxy5575 compare it to the hand of P.Oxy. 4009 and I must say they look very similar to me. Interestingly, some think P.Oxy. 4009 is from the Gospel of Peter but that is much debated. See here https://t.co/5dHyfgYY9t

EXCLUSIVE | Written before the formation of a New Testament or even the widespread recognition of a collection of Christian sacred scripture, this fragmentary page from a small ancient book offers a rare glimpse into the minds of early Christians.

Looking back to the July 24th presentation of 'Paul, Christian Textuality, and the Hermeneutics of Late Antiquity' Festschrift! Honouring Margaret Mitchell in Vienna, with insightful essays by D Moessner, P Duff, J B Spittler, and R M Calhoun. To the book: https://t.co/eFxPHy1aFE

If you are a religion scholar (ABD okay) interested in teaching “The Meaning of Death” for my department Spring 2024 email me your CV! Much appreciated if you can share with your networks.

Added to e-Clavis: Materiae apocryphorum ~ Martyrdom of Thecla Limestone, compiled by Katie Fuentes and @clcobb629. https://t.co/V6Iq2gR4nN

Hey gang! It’s my birthday so I got you a present: an all new episode featuring a discussion with @TBurkeApoc and Janet Spittler of NASSCAL to talk about their new volume of little-seen apocrypha! https://t.co/fryauS8vRh cc @theisb @Pontifex

Something to look forward to even as we dread the beginning of the semester: NASSCAL First Friday Workshop with Melissa Harl Sellew!

Main paper I of #snts23 is presented by Shelly Matthews on "reading the resurrection of the holy ones (Mt 27:51b-54 within Judaism, through a feminist lens".

A Festschrift for my Doktormutter!

Now digitized: London, British Library, Add. 12150 (dated 411 CE), containing portions of the Pseudo-Clementines in Syriac. Details at: https://t.co/qJXqdZdkMp