Yale PhD | Princeton University Visiting Fellow at the James Madison Program (2025-2026) | Fairfield University Associate Professor
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29 Aug 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 josephusandjesus.com
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The Revelation Reception Network Seminar
Season 4
The Revelation Reception Network invites proposals for papers to be presented in Season 4 of its international seminar series (Fall 2026 – Spring 2027).
The Revelation Reception Network is an interdisciplinary scholarly forum devoted to studying the historical and contemporary reception of John’s Revelation (the Apocalypse). It seeks to foster sustained international exchange and collaboration among scholars working on the interpretation, transmission, appropriation, and various afterlives of Revelation across diverse periods, regions, languages, and traditions. The Network has sponsored conferences and is currently producing two separate anthologies of essays on the reception of Revelation.
We seek papers addressing the reception of Revelation in historic world Christianity, late antiquity, the medieval world, the Reformation and early modern periods, modernity, and contemporary global contexts. Topics may include the interpretation and use of Revelation, its images, and its influence in commentary traditions, preaching, liturgy, theology, ecclesial controversy, manuscript transmission, visual art, music, literature, political discourse, apocalyptic movements, popular culture, and digital or media environments. We are particularly open to papers that highlight hermeneutical approaches to the book, as well as to comparative, interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed proposals.
Scholars at all career stages are welcome to propose a paper. In most cases, presenters will be invited to prepare revised versions of their papers for inclusion in future publication projects associated with the Network.
Submission Instructions
Please send the proposed paper title and an abstract (ca. 150–200 words), along with your name, position, and affiliation, to nathan.betz@ur.de. The deadline for proposals is 31 July 2026. The schedule will be announced in mid-August 2026.
Learn More
Find out more about the Revelation Reception Network and its activities, including past seminar programs, at tinyurl.com/RevelationNetwor… (scroll down), and find us on Facebook, Twitter/X, and YouTube. Join our monthly email list for events and announcements by sending an email to nathan.betz@ur.de. The Revelation Reception Network is overseen by Nathan Betz (Regensburg), Régis Burnet (Louvain-la-Neuve), Cristian Cardozo Mindiola (Mayagüez), and Thomas C. Schmidt (New Haven).
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Jun 5
A Persian carpet woven by an Afghan Christian about 100 years ago featuring Jesus as the good Shepherd. Note the tree whose roots are shaped like the provinces of Afghanistan reaching out to touch the hem of Jesus's cloak. Beautiful. The carpet is now housed at Princeton Theological Library
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Jun 3
AI subscriptions will be the next required utility bill, like internet and cell phones before it. I already pay a monthly fee for two different AI services, both of which dramatically boost my productivity. Things are changing fast. A friend of mine fired a worker at his job who could do nothing but regurgitate whatever AI told him without any critical thinking. Then the friend chose not to replace the worker because he realized he could do the worker’s job on his own with the help of AI (but this time using critical thinking). Two other friends have massively increased their efficiency in their jobs with the help of AI.
You young career folks out there, take this opportunity to become human, cultivate your minds so you can offer things AI can’t do, and learn to use AI to full effect not just mindlessly follow what it says — it’s an unknown world out there, but I lived through something like this when the Internet came out and was changing everything. No one knew what would happen, but everything turned out (basically) all right, hopefully it will this time too.
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Jun 4
@suzania we've talked briefly about AI in the past and I have been going back and forth about it but I'm coming around now. I know you might disagree, but I thought you'd be interested. Happy to talk.
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May 29
Fabulous tomb dating to the time of Alexander the Great is being restored beautifully--perhaps it was indeed dedicated to Alexander?
zmescience.com/science/news-…
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May 22
New discovery! A fragment of Melito of Sardis’s lost work On Baptism has been identified. Melito wrote around 175 AD and nearly all of his large corpus has been lost. Now one more piece emerges from the darkness by the hands of Dr. Alin Sucio @AlinSuciu1
academia.edu/164478732/The_C…
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technically the fragment is about baptism and may not be specifically from Melito's lost work On Baptism — though I think it likely.
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May 13
Excellent journalism from the Free Press @TheFP on the persecution of Christians in China, I pray for Pastor Ezra Jin and so many like him who are imprisoned and suffering for the Gospel.
youtu.be/swnRGet-5Ww?si=mDiX…
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May 11
A winged genie from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II 883-859 BC — courtesy of the Princeton Art Gallery
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May 8
Having spent much time at Yale and Princeton, this is true, and it should change:
Ivy League students are suffering from religious illiteracy washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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May 6
"St. Jerome in his Study" (1528)
Saw this at the Princeton Art Gallery, by Joos van Cleve
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An early manuscript of Cædmon’s Hymn was recently discovered, one of the earliest pieces of English literature and an important part of Christian mission in England & Scotland. Whispers of Tolkien are sensed as Cædmon sings of how Middungeard "Middle Earth" was made!
Researchers discovered it because its manuscript had been digitized and not properly looked at, we must support such endeavors!
archaeologymag.com/2026/04/n…
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T.C. Schmidt retweeted
French researcher cracks 4,000-year-old Elamite script from Iran - France 24
france24.com/en/french-resea…
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Apr 29
Huge discovery! A team has recovered 42 pages from one of the earliest New Testament manuscripts: Codex H (015) of the 6th century. The team used multispectral imaging to decipher the letter tracings of now lost pages impressed on remaining pages. gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1263…
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The digital edition is available and looks like this
codexh.arts.gla.ac.uk/#/the-…
Thanks to @kasi_nist
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Apr 27
Recently saw this Christian manuscript of the Syriac polymath Bar Hebraeus' Lamp of the Sanctuary — Yale Beinecke Manuscript Library (Syriac MSS 7)
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Apr 21
Everyone should follow Roger Pearse. He is a one-man collating/translating/commentating machine for all things ancient. He has his own link on CCEL and puts out his own translation work for free. A saint!
tertullian.org/rpearse/index…
Apr 21
A major discovery! 30 additional lines of the pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (444 BC) was found in a papyrus. Such finds are extremely rare—Empedocles was one of the last philosophers to write purely in verse not prose. He tried to prove he was divine by jumping into a volcano, it did not end well!
Read an excellent summary by @roger_pearse
roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026…
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A major discovery! 30 additional lines of the pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (444 BC) was found in a papyrus. Such finds are extremely rare—Empedocles was one of the last philosophers to write purely in verse not prose. He tried to prove he was divine by jumping into a volcano, it did not end well!
Read an excellent summary by @roger_pearse
roger-pearse.com/weblog/2026…
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Apr 15
Recently finished an eight hour day of filming for a documentary to be released in the coming months, more on this later! For now, here is a little foretaste
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