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August 2022

August 24, 2022

Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Network Meeting November 2022 #CFP

I am sharing the following announcement that Geoff Smith shared on Facebook: We are pleased...

April 2019

April 03, 2019

ReligionProf Podcast with Deb Saxon (Extracanonical Texts in Musical and Animated Settings)

My guest on the podcast this week is my Butler University colleague Dr. Deborah Saxon....

November 2014

November 14, 2014

Did Morton Smith Forge the Gospel of Philip?

The Gospel of Philip was found at Nag Hammadi together with other Coptic texts, and...

July 2014

July 18, 2014

Online Resources

A wealth of online resources have come to my attention in recent days:Older issues of...

January 2014

January 12, 2014

Nag Hammadi at Early Christian Writings

As Peter Kirby mentioned on his blog a few days ago, he has added the...

August 2013

August 15, 2013

Gearing Up For GenCon

I stopped by on Wednesday, before the official start of GenCon, to pick up badges...

July 2013

July 24, 2013

Mary Magdalene Resources

Anthony LeDonne mentioned on his blog that he has a new book coming out: The...

July 14, 2013

Alin Suciu’s Thesis Online

Alin Suciu has successfully defended his dissertation - and I wish him heartfelt congratulations! He...

May 2013

May 27, 2013

Re-Examining Spelling and Pronunciation in Coptic

I am grateful to David Mihalyfy for sending me a copy of his recent article,...

May 13, 2013

Open Access Scholarship

I had a librarian mention to me that they had heard about a scholar whose...

December 2012

December 27, 2012

My Egyptian Grammar

Like the proverbial hieroglyphics, the song "My Egyptian Grammar" by The Fiery Furnaces seems like it...

November 2012

November 13, 2012

Late Texts, Early Traditions continued: Thomases, Johns, and Marks

Here I am continuing some preliminary reflections related to my upcoming conference paper (which I began...

October 2012

October 11, 2012

Jesus’ Wife: Internet Plagiarist?

The "Gospel of Jesus' Wife" has not been getting as much attention in the media...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Dating Jesus’ Wife

Discussions continue in the blogosphere about the Gospel of Jesus' Wife. The most important thing...

September 25, 2012

Is Jesus’ Wife Turning Into Thomas?

Discussion of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife continues full speed ahead on scholarly blogs, and...

September 23, 2012

Jesus – Married too Soon?

Clergy Family Confidential has a list of ten reasons why one would not want to...

September 21, 2012

BibleWorks 9 and the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife

Today a wonderful opportunity to continue illustrating more features of BibleWorks 9 has presented itself....

September 21, 2012

The Most Interesting Gospel about Jesus’ Wife in the World?

Steve Douglas kindly made and shared this image: The words are something I said in...

September 21, 2012

Is the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife a Fake?

Let me start with the news that Mark Goodacre shared a pdf of an article...

September 20, 2012

3 Jesus’ Wife (With Fill in the Blank at the End)

There's been even more blogged and discussed about the "Jesus' wife" Coptic fragment since my...

September 19, 2012

2 Jesus’ Wife

The announcement by Karen King about the Coptic fragment which has Jesus mentioning "my wife"...

September 18, 2012

Coptic Text Mentions Jesus’ Wife

The New York Times, the Harvard Gazette, The Huffington Post and other media outlets are...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Lexicity

Thanks to Charles Jones for pointing out on the AWOL blog a great web site...

February 2012

February 09, 2012

The Nag Hammadi Codices in their Monastic Context

The blog Past Horizons has a post today which begins by saying "The texts of...

February 08, 2012

Lost Doctor Who Episodes and Exciting Manuscript Finds

Mark Goodacre offered a comparison between the finding of lost Doctor Who episodes and the...

January 2012

January 28, 2012

Review of Roberge, The Paraphrase of Shem

My review of Michel Roberge's book The Paraphrase of Shem (NH VII,1): Introduction, Translation and Commentary...

January 27, 2012

Rossi’s Edition of the Coptic Papyrus Codices in the Egyptian Museum in Turin

Those interested in Coptic texts owe a debt of gratitude to Alin Suciu for scanning...

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