Congratulations to two teams led by IRCI scholars for Discovery Project grant success from the Australian Research Council totalling almost a half a million dollars! 1/3

The 2025 Seminar 1 schedule for the BECS Global Seminar Series is now available with contributions from Sarah Corrigan, Stephen Carlson, Bronwen Neil, Sabrina Inowlocki, and David Woods.

IRCI scholars Stephen Carlson and Joey McCollum were pleased to be asked to launch Dr Robert Turnbull’s book on Codex Sinaiticus Arabicus and the furture of New Testament textual criticism.

IRCI's Jonathan Zecher has just publish an open-access article in Harvard Theological Review, "The Fate of the Dead between Origen(ism) and Orthodoxy in Gaza." Link in reply.

Coming this July. cambridge.org/au/universityp…

I wrote a short piece on Easter and the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea abc.net.au/religion/1700-…

Registration is still open for our Makarios conference on Love of Neighbor and Human Flourishing (deadline 15 May) which will take place at ACU’s Rome campus in partnership with Baylor, Harvard, and Boston College! Baylor ISR Human Flourishing Program Boston College >

Come study with us! Ph.D. Scholarship opportunity to work on the Late Antique translation of texts.

I am delighted to announce that I have received a fellowship from Humboldt-Stiftung for a research stay in Tübingen to produce an edition of The Emperor Julian's Against the Galileans and to study its 20th c. reception, including a German translation from the Third Reich.

Book Launch! Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ (Oxford University Press) has been released today. Thanks to a very generous donor, a free PDF of the book can be found here josephusandjesus.com/purchase-page/ Share widely and follow for more updates — TC Schmidt

I am still a little dazed by the prospect of taking up a role most recently held by John Barclay, but am excited to share this news. Lightfoot Professor of Divinity Appointment - Durham University durham.ac.uk/news-events/la…

Spotted today at the Vatican Museums. An unusual depiction of the evangelists as oarsmen in a boat with Christ at the helm. Matthew is missing but we have John, Luke, and Mark, the so-called ‘Western’ order of the gospels.

So far the standard version of Microsoft Copilot can't transcribe an 11th c Greek manuscript and in fact made up a completely different text it claimed was the transcription. Seems to have picked up βασιλέα from the first line, misread it as a similar word, and then ran with it.

A small discovery: the Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität includes an entry for εὐάγγελμα with a single ref: Didymus, De Trin 1.29.8. The term shows up nowhere else in TLG. The ms actually reads ἐπαγγέλματα which was misread in the 1769 editio princeps and a new ed in 1975.

I am delighted to announce IRCI_ACU has 2 job openings in early Christianity (specialisation open, research-focus, early career). Closing date 15 Aug. Contact me with any questions. We hope you'll consider joining our excellent group of scholars! candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/production…

Applications due in two weeks.

Back in my happy place at the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome with the reading room all to myself today.

#NewsFromTheWeb. 📢The IRCI_ACU is seeking 2 Research/Senior Research Fellows. 📌Focus: New Testament and Early Christian Studies (1st–7th century). 📌Applications close 15 Aug 2025. Find out more here 👉bit.ly/4eXVbSO

I am proud to represent IRCI_ACU as a finalist for the ACU 3 Minute Thesis #3MT competition. Check out my video on "Baptism in Matthew's Gospel in its Jewish Context" here, where you can vote for me for the People's Choice Award: acu.edu.au/research-and-e…

There is still one week to go before the application deadline for our two job openings in biblical and early Christian studies (15 August). Please spread the word! I would be glad to speak with anyone who has questions about the positions.