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CFP: Visualizing Women in the Apocrypha
Call for Papers for Special Session at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS 2019) May 9 to 12, 2019 Western Michigan University The proposed session is devoted to the construction and...
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On Byzantine Apocrypha and Erotapokriseis Literature
As I work through the contributions to the second volume of New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, I am struck by how many of them are related to a genre of literature that has not been...
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A full-text edition of Tischendorf’s Evangelia Apocrypha
Tischendorf’s Evangelia Apocrypha is a text that virtually everyone who works in Christian Apocrypha has dealt with at one point or another. It isn’t overly difficult to find in print, most decent...
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The Stoning of the Devil (Ramy al-Jamarat) in Coptic Christian Apocrypha
Two Coptic Christian texts to be included in the second volume of New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures (edited by me and Brent Landau) allude, perhaps, to the Ramy al-Jamarat, a ritual...
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Johannine Apocalyptica in Church Slavonic
For the second volume of New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures I decided to include as much information as possible on what we call “versions”—a term designating translations of the...
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Editing More New Testament Apocrypha, Part 1: Choosing the Texts
Yesterday I sent off the last chapter of New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures vol. 2 (=MNTA 2) to its authors for revisions. The project is not over by a longshot, but it is the end of...
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Editing More Christian Apocrypha, Part 2: Advice for Young Scholars
This past Spring I sat on a panel for students at the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies annual meeting entitled “Review, Respond, Reflect.” I was asked to discuss my experiences editing the work of...
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Editing More Christian Apocrypha, Part 3: It Takes a Village
Years ago, way back in 2008, a group of North American Christian apocrypha scholars gathered in Ottawa to discuss, among other things, the creation of a collaborative project that would show the world...
View ArticleChristian Apocrypha at SBL 2018
The 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature is fast approaching (Nov. 17–20). To help prepare for the event, I have compiled all of the presentations focusing on Christian Apocrypha....
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2018 SBL Diary: Day One
Another year, another SBL Annual Meeting. And now it’s time to compile my thoughts about the experience for my traditional roundup of the event—the sessions I attended and/or participated in, meetings...
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2018 SBL Diary: Day Two
The second day of the annual meeting was significantly more relaxed. There were no Christian Apocrypha Section sessions scheduled, so I was “free” to go to anything that interested me. But before the...
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2018 SBL Diary: Day 3
A busy day 3 began with a NASSCAL executive breakfast in our swanky hotel lounge (we had to smuggle a few of the exec. in; this is what happens when you give the hoi polloi something nice—we just take...
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Reflections on the Material of Christian Apocrypha Conference: Part I
The “Material of Christian Apocrypha” conference took place at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville November 30 and December 1, 2018 (see the conference web site HERE). The event also doubled...
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Reflections on the Material of Christian Apocrypha Conference: Part II
Jean-Michel Roessli. Photo: Tony Burke. Day two of the “Material of Christian Apocrypha” conference was all about the Great White North as the Canadians took over the podium. First up was Jean-Michel...
View ArticleMore New Testament Apocrypha vol. 3
In January I submitted the completed manuscript of New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures volume 2 to the publisher, Eerdmans. I was soon informed that the volume was too large. The...
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Reconstructing a Ninth-Century Arabic Apocrypha Manuscript from Mount Sinai
Though I have a number of important projects in progress at the moment, sometimes I throw them aside for a day or two while I chase down some information about an apocryphal text or manuscript....
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Book Review ~ The Other Side: Apocryphal Perspectives on Ancient Christian...
With the “Beyond Canon” conference at the Universität Regensburg approaching in a few weeks (July 2–5; details HERE), I thought this might be a good time to finally write my review of the essay...
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Years in the Making: The Debut of NASSCAL’s Early Christian Apocrypha Series
The North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature (NASSCAL) is celebrating the release of the first two volumes in their Early Christian Apocrypha series: The Gospel of...
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Four Uncatalogued Apocrypha Manuscripts from Mount Sinai
The St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai is well-known as a goldmine of manuscripts—almost 2300 of them in Greek alone, and another 1000 or so in other languages. Its library has yielded such...
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“Acts” of John and Philip in the Miracle of St. Michael the Archangel at Chonae
The Archangel Michael is one of the most important of the Christian saints—second only to the Virgin Mary in prominence in late antique and medieval Christianity, both in the East and the West. Holy...
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