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Jacob W. Peterson

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Manuscripts and JavaScript | PhD, NT Textual Criticism, U. of Edinburgh | Software Engineer | Trail Ultrarunner | Immigrant | Boomer Sooner 📍: Edinburgh, Scotland jacobwpeterson.com Visiting Scotland? myScotlandGuide.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 22/09/2026
CFP for the 15th Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament next April. No theme this year, so open call! www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/bi...
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Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament 2027: Call for Papers - University of Birmingham
Paper proposals are invited for the Fifteenth Birmingham Colloquium to be held in April 2027
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 03/09/2026
A major update released today. In addition to a11y and perf improvements, there are 3 features worth mentioning. 1) Per-source position memory aka the viewers remember your position, scroll, and zoom level for each page so you can toggle back and forth without needing to find your place again
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 03/08/2026
If you’re teaching #Greek, #palaeography, #manuscripts, #textcriticsm etc. this coming year, consider adding my website to your course assignments or resources. It’s free, I don’t collect/sell your info, and it’d be nearly impossible to cheat with AI. See 🧵 for details
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 01/08/2026
Successful weekend already. Bought 3.2kg of focaccia for £10
A big ass focaccia
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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 16/07/2026
- Vienna (was almost home) - Edinburgh (is home) - San Francisco (was home) - Athens (practically home for a couple years) - Seoul B-themed also rans: Basel, Berlin, Boston, Bratislava, Budapest
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 03/07/2026
Very helpful free tool
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 23/06/2026
When I was 17, I hung out with Ghostface Killah from Wu-Tang Clan for about half an hour while we listened to Funeral for a Friend perform
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 14/06/2026
Gun Alba, Gun Phàrtaidh!
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 12/06/2026
A pie chart with four sections. The legend also has four keys: salary, wellness, stable mental health, and confidence for your future. None of the four match the pie chart.
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 10/05/2026
Haven’t seen anyone posting this yet. Nongbri has a new post (and article) on P15 and P16 brentnongbri.com/2026/05/07/a...
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A New Article on P.Oxy. 7.1008 and 7.1009 (P15 and P16)
The latest issue of Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft contains an article I wrote on two papyrus folia from Oxyrhynchus. Here is the abstract: P.Oxy. 7.1008 and 7.1009 (P15 and P16…
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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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Joey McCollum @joeymccollum.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
More fun news: a paper I co-authored with Pasi Hyytiäinen and Tim Finney is now available as an advance article in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: doi.org/10.1093/llc/.... We investigate the validity of the contested paradigm of text-types using a battery of computational approaches. (1/8)
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Comparative computational textual criticism of the Gospel of Mark and the paradigm of textual clusters
Abstract. In New Testament textual criticism, the paradigm of textual clusters has become a controversial subject. Within this paradigm, the traditional pr
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 22/03/2026
Hacked our high school’s network to create a private LAN so that we could play Unreal Tournament from any ISD computer. Took admins more than a year to take down. (We could also change grades and, more importantly, adjust cafeteria balances)
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 14/03/2026
In a break from academic projects, I’ve created a website with various itineraries for exploring Scotland. MyScotlandGuide.com
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My Scotland Guide — Scotland Itineraries, Travel Guides & Expert Trip Planning
Hand-crafted Scotland itineraries for every travel style. Filter by transport, activities, pace, and group type.
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 09/03/2026
A nice write up of my Xeirographa project in Digital Orientalist (NB: all the bugs had been fixed)
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Andrew Connor @andrewconnor.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Open-access scholarship/books in papyrology (and related fields): a thread I hope to periodically update, as new material comes out. 1/?
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 14/02/2026
A bigger athletic event than the Olympics has begun
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Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos @handle.invalid · 10/02/2026
We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 11/02/2026
When I was a kid, all my tamagotchis died. This raises deep questions about my place among history’s worst serial killers
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Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
How did early readers think about the relationship between the gospels? Repost to enter a drawing to win a free book.
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 26/01/2026
*Worst person I know* meme
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
They are executing unarmed people in the streets for trying to protect their neighbors with the full support of the federal government.
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 19/01/2026
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 11/01/2026
In a world dark with despair, a spot of light and hope for us: our daughter, Eleanor Freya, was born happy and healthy yesterday
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 27/12/2025
My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com
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Xeirographa
A guided learning platform for reading Greek manuscripts with interactive transcription exercises.
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 27/12/2025
My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com
xeirographa.com
Xeirographa
A guided learning platform for reading Greek manuscripts with interactive transcription exercises.
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 10/12/2025
For those of you with personal Microsoft accounts you’ll likely have received notice of a large price increase hitting soon (due to AI). If you go through the cancellation flow, they offer a “classic” plan without AI for you to swap to at your existing price
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 08/12/2025
Half convinced these birds at the hospital are speaking Hebrew
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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The Letter to the Hebrews according to the Oldest Papyrus polumeros.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
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The Letter to the Hebrews according to the Oldest Papyrus
I want to thank Jordi Cervera for the gift of this beautiful book:   Rodolf Puigdollers i Noblom and Jordi Cervera i Valls. La Carta als Heb...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 30/07/2025
Israel’s blockade of most food and aid, along with distribution difficulties inside the Gaza Strip, have driven many of Gaza’s 2 million Palestinians to the brink of starvation.
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Photos: Starvation and Chaos in Gaza
Israel’s blockade of most food and aid, along with distribution difficulties inside the Gaza Strip, have driven many of Gaza’s 2 million Palestinians to the brink of starvation.
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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
📘 Nothing to read? A new issue of #NovumTestamentum just dropped — with several #openaccess articles! Browse it here: shorturl.at/e2hsX. #BiblicalStudies #NewTestament #aarsbl #sblaar
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Novum Testamentum Volume 67 Issue 3 (2025)
"Volume 67 (2025): Issue 3 (May 2025)" published on 29 May 2025 by Brill.
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 05/05/2025
My dog doing his best RayGun impression
Black Labrador being bad at breakdancing
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 08/04/2025
Practically packed for the Birmingham TC Colloquium tomorrow
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 11/01/2025
I’m glad to see Brent has saved me the time of listening to this
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 04/01/2025
It’s the fourth day of the year and my wife already has more citations than I got last year
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 29/12/2024
Ignatius, Epistle to the Romans
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 28/11/2024
Exciting news today for something that's been in the works for far too long. I've signed a contract to produce a new edition and study of the text, hands, and paratexts of P46
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 23/11/2024
First snow of the season
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 21/11/2024
One of my personal project papyrus46.com is online. It brings together a complete set of the latest digital images and the transcriptions I produced for my doctoral thesis. You can also add images and transcriptions from Kenyon's ed. pr. for comparison. It also contains an extensive bibliography.
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Papyrus 46
Free online images and transcriptions of Papryus 46
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 21/11/2024
My response to Varner on Paul's "large letters" in Gal 6.11 in P46 is out as of this week in TC. It's available open access here: jbtc.org/v29/TC_Peter...
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 21/11/2024
Going to catch the feed up on recent developments with me. I have an article out in the latest NovT showing that GA 250 is a direct copy of GA 424. It's the first of a phenomenon I'm calling "fabschriften" (facsimile-Abschriften) that I've developed software for detecting. brill.com/view/journal...
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