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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey—it's Harvard Divinity School's Karen King (very generously) discussing my book in a lecture on the Gospel of Mary! Is this H-Index? 🦋

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today’s object: a votive statue of Sucellus, a Gallic deity, that was originally set up in a household shrine

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Turns out only the Epistle to the Laodiceans is infallible actually.

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Another shout out today on the 1 year anniversary of @saracharles.bsky.social wonderful book in paperback (out 2 years in hardback)! Published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. This book really is fantastic. 🥳🎂 #medievalsky

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

HUGE Discovery in an article I'm reviewing this morning: the sources we use to do history have their own agendas.

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Man's Funny Mind Blown Reaction

ALT: Man's Funny Mind Blown Reaction

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Can someone make an account that just runs every new article in my field through Pangram and posts the results? I—and I'm sure others—would happily help pay for the Pangram subscription.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

New piece on canon formation by yours truly. Happy to share PDFs in response to emails.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My 5 year old says "but-cept" instead of "except" and I loathe the day someone corrects her.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Some days you just have to keep putting words into the blank space at the bottom of the page.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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.

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Joey McCollum @joeymccollum.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

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.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Last night I dreamt that the status on one of my articles switched from "Awaiting Reviewer Scores" to "Awaiting Editorial Decision."

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Out here begging people to read about Plutarch's Sayings Collections before characterizing what is or is not typical of Sayings Collections.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Turns out only the Epistle to the Laodiceans is infallible actually.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The beginning of Scribes, Transmission, and Bilingual Traditions Conference at KU Leuven.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Motion that we remove one "n" from "beginning."

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

It was Occitan. And I had already read an article about this particular manuscript but failed to put the two together. Doh.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

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.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

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?

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I have never once correctly spelled "admitedly."

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Buridan's Ass but between the nearest deadline and the most important.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My article (open access) on the apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans, canonicity, paratexts, and Latin manuscripts!

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Bibliothèque nationale de France. Day one.

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NT Review Pod @ntreview.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

65. Antti Marjanen, "Is Thomas a Gnostic Gospel?" open.spotify.com/episode/3wRo...

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65. Antti Marjanen, "Is Thomas a Gnostic Gospel?"

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Is there any useable version of Stegmüller anywhere on the internet?

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

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...

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Currently: academic powerhouses @iannelsonmills.bsky.social and @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social co-presenting on a glossed copy of Laodiceans

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

New Research on Apocryphal Christian Literature conference begins with Lydia Bremer-McCollum on the Egerton Gospel Fragments.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Shameless book promotion time! Why buy my book? + Missionary lumberjacks (St Boniface) 🪓 + A demon in an outhouse + Miltonic gloomy Satan + Jesus melting the gates of hell + A monastery built by a giant from hell manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175038/

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Manchester University Press - Translating hell

Translating hell - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Translating hell by Stephen C. E. Hopkins

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

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. 🕯️🧵

Gelasian Sacramentary, BAV Reg lat 316, bottom of fol. 42r: the beginning of the description of the Expositio Evangeliorum, saying 4 deacons are to process from the sacristy with 4...

Continuation of the Gelasian Sacramentary description of the Expositio Evangeliorum: ... (4 deacons process with) 4 Gospels...which are placed on the 4 corners of the altar.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Then, it's take your four-year-old up a (small) mountain day.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Take your four-year-old to class day.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Since @stewartbrookes.bsky.social is visiting an especially famous Tall Skinny Manuscript™ today, I thought I'd drop a thread of the ones I happened across during the year of Saints+MSS. In no particular order... This thread had some discussion and other exx.: bsky.app/profile/cari...

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Send me a direct message if you want a copy now.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Proofs! "Search the Scriptures Because They Testify About Me" (John 5:39): An Alexandrian Misquotation of the Fourth Gospel

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

A timely publication from this last week.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Numbers in the humanities are no replacement for an argument or a story. But every once in a while I can't resist the urge to use numbers to show that I'm not just going off vibes. I've spent all week counting.

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Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com · 24/03/2026

Not sure why or how, but @iannelsonmills.bsky.social's book "The Hypothesis of the Gospels" is available in hardcover at Amazon for $10.33 (at least for me). If thou hast not obtaineth this surely magnificent tome, go thou and buy, for thine library requireth it. amzn.to/3NXfmHy

Amazon page for Ian Nelson Mills' book "The Hypothesis of the Gospels" showing $10.33 hardcover price.

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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I'm at the stage in the writing process where a computer crash would bring sweet relief from the cascade of PDFs, tabs, and notes pages that I can't bring myself to close.

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