My 5 year old says "but-cept" instead of "except" and I loathe the day someone corrects her.
Ian N Mills
@iannelsonmills.bsky.social
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion & Classics, @HamiltonCollege | Incoming Research Fellow @AustralianCatholicUniversity | Ph.D. in Religion, Duke University | Cohost of @NTReviewPod | New Testament and the History of Christianity
Some days you just have to keep putting words into the blank space at the bottom of the page.
Sometimes you hear a sermon so bad you have to drop everything and write 1000 words. Exploring venues for a short essay on the Christian use of Rabbinic literature to criticize other Christians.
Requesting help from anyone out there with a good eye for Latin paleography! In the Latin side of GA 628 in Eph 3:1, there is a marginal note/correction and a supralinear correction, both pictured in the screenshot below. My questions about these two features follow in order.
Really delightful to recall that every few years there's a new cohort who are old enough to learn about the Voynich manuscript for the first time.
Last night I dreamt that the status on one of my articles switched from "Awaiting Reviewer Scores" to "Awaiting Editorial Decision."
Out here begging people to read about Plutarch's Sayings Collections before characterizing what is or is not typical of Sayings Collections.
Turns out only the Epistle to the Laodiceans is infallible actually.
The beginning of Scribes, Transmission, and Bilingual Traditions Conference at KU Leuven.
It was Occitan. And I had already read an article about this particular manuscript but failed to put the two together. Doh.
Ian N Mills@iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 2mo agoI thought (for about one minute) today that I discovered a totally new work under the title of the Epistle to the Laodiceans. Then I realized that a lot of the words were French (e.g. "mais" for "sed"). Does anyone on here work on 13th century vernacular Latin/Old French?
Old French #medievalsky folks, come on in! @iannelsonmills.bsky.social if you don't get help on here, I can put you in touch with some Toronto friends not on Bluesky who could help.
Ian N Mills@iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 2mo agoI thought (for about one minute) today that I discovered a totally new work under the title of the Epistle to the Laodiceans. Then I realized that a lot of the words were French (e.g. "mais" for "sed"). Does anyone on here work on 13th century vernacular Latin/Old French?
I thought (for about one minute) today that I discovered a totally new work under the title of the Epistle to the Laodiceans. Then I realized that a lot of the words were French (e.g. "mais" for "sed"). Does anyone on here work on 13th century vernacular Latin/Old French?
Buridan's Ass but between the nearest deadline and the most important.
My article (open access) on the apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans, canonicity, paratexts, and Latin manuscripts!
Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 2mo agoJournal of the Bible and its Reception Vol. 13, No. 1 (2026) www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/... #openaccess @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @iannelsonmills.bsky.social
65. Antti Marjanen, "Is Thomas a Gnostic Gospel?" open.spotify.com/episode/3wRo...
65. Antti Marjanen, "Is Thomas a Gnostic Gospel?"
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Is there any useable version of Stegmüller anywhere on the internet?
Congratulations to @iannelsonmills.bsky.social for receiving the De Gruyter Prize for Biblical Studies and Reception History 2025! His article is now published in #openaccess in our "Journal of the Bible and its Reception". 🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Ian N Mills@iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 3mo agoOpen Access Publication! My essay. "Canonizing Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans," won this year's DeGruyter-Brill Prize and, as of today, is available open access. I'm really proud of this one. You can download here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Currently: academic powerhouses @iannelsonmills.bsky.social and @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social co-presenting on a glossed copy of Laodiceans
Ian is rightly proud! I got a pre-pub peek at this and it's excellent. I learned a lot! I'm so glad we have Ian to Explain All the Laodiceans Things to us.
Ian N Mills@iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 3mo agoOpen Access Publication! My essay. "Canonizing Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans," won this year's DeGruyter-Brill Prize and, as of today, is available open access. I'm really proud of this one. You can download here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
New Research on Apocryphal Christian Literature conference begins with Lydia Bremer-McCollum on the Egerton Gospel Fragments.
Open Access Publication! My essay. "Canonizing Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans," won this year's DeGruyter-Brill Prize and, as of today, is available open access. I'm really proud of this one. You can download here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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My little liturgical-codicological mind has been blown. When I was reading the Bobbio Missal and Gelasian Sacramentary in Holy Week, I focused for the 1st time on the description of the ceremonies in Lent where the 4 Evangelist symbols + the opening of each Gospel were explained to catechumens. 🕯️🧵
Thanks to @iannelsonmills.bsky.social I now know about BNF NAL 1063, a New Testament manuscript in Merovingian cursive. Definitely bookmarking this for next time I teach paleography. This is fol. 25r, the opening of Luke: Quoniam quidem multi conati sunt ordinare
Then, it's take your four-year-old up a (small) mountain day.
