Stephen C. Carlson
@sccarlson
Associate Professor in Biblical and Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University (Ph.D. Duke, New Testament, 2012). Många bäckar små gör en stor å.
Coming July 2021: Papias of Hierapolis, Exposition of Dominical Oracles: The Fragments, Testimonia, and Reception of a Second-Century Commentator global.oup.com/academic/produ…
Open access!
The book will be available in August, open access. < doi.org/10.1163/978900… >
The anatomy of a viral moment
this story is absolutely unremarkable except in how it managed to combine almost everything it's socially acceptable to hate brilliantly: HR, Coldplay, Cheaters, CEOs, millionaires.
"Not ... main text mean" 🤣
Reasons for footnotes: 1) Referencing 2) Additional clarifying information 3) I worked on this paragraph for 45 hours and simply refuse to delete it entirely 4) I want to be mean about an author but not, like, main text mean.
There was a lot of inflation since the time of Jesus three centuries earlier. I wonder how people then read the prices in the Gospels?
The wages of bath attendants in a cloakroom in a bathhouse are mentioned in the Diocletian price edict.
Let me just repeat that: “the web is so much less knowledge dense and contains so many fewer viewpoints than books.”
And yes this would violate all copyright laws and thus probably should not be done. But still, the web is so much less knowledge dense and contains so many fewer viewpoints than books.
Akshually, the best alternative is the Julian period as devised by J. J. Scaliger centred on the triple coincidence of the solar, lunar, and indiction cycles. It is currently the year 6738 JP.
We use BC/AD consistently on our website and believe, as one of our editors argues here, that any other alternative is worse (and to those who claim offence, more offensive): thecritic.co.uk/issues/october… What do you think?
Coming out soon in open access (17 July) brill.com/display/title/…
2 weeks of research = I definitively conclude 10 months of research = I sorta kinda suggest
Look out my chapter on lost (and found) texts of the second century.
A Handbook to Second-Century Christianity - Baylor University Press baylorpress.com/9781481314152/…