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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is the published version of one of the best plenaries I’ve ever heard at the Oxford Patristics conference.

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

30% off discount code: AUFLY30 at global.oup.com/academic

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Job listing at University of St. Thomas: John and Paula Kelly Family Endowed Professorship in Catholic Leadership and Co-Director of the Habiger Institute for Catholic Leadership. Please share! facultyemployment-stthomas.icims.com/jobs/9440/as...

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Two years after submission, twenty-two years after conception, it’s published. I believe Sept. 28 is the official publication date in the US. Not sure about the UK and elsewhere. I’ll share a discount code when I receive one.

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Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yesterday, in her all-staff talk our VC chose to highlight the recent election of 5 FBAs from the University of Exeter. She failed to point out that 4 of us (with many of our colleagues) have just been placed at risk of redundancy. #DefendExeterUni @exeterucu.bsky.social

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I've not yet competently figured out how Substack works, but here is the first installment of "Down the Rabbit Hole," about a new book on Maximus the Confessor by a former student of mine. open.substack.com/pub/mdelcogl...

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A New Book on Maximus the Confessor

Corey J. Stephan, Maximus the Confessor’s Thomistic Legacy, Mediaeval Law and Theology 10 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2026).

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Is there a word for the decision one reluctantly makes, when using some crappy public WiFi, to turn it off on your phone to use your precious data? And then a word for when you forget to turn it back on back at home?

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A great way to start the day: the new JECS at breakfast. We’re fortunate to have @emuehlbe.bsky.social as the editor!

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Job Alert: tenure-track position in Theological Ethics at the rank of assistant professor to begin in the fall semester of 2027, in the Dept. of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. Please share widely!

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

#NAPS2026 people: Today all registrants should have received email communications from me and from Trident (our conference management company) with important information about the conference later this week. Email me if you didn't. www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...

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Conference Program – NAPS – The North American Patristics Society

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Buon compleanno a Roma. Picture taken 7:52am, 11 January 2026.

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A new revised version of the NAPS Program, updated 4/14/2026. Let me know of any last minute changes. custom.cvent.com/DADF18846EBF...

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

A revised version of the NAPS 2026 Program Book has been released. Let me know of any further corrections. custom.cvent.com/DADF18846EBF...

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

NAPS members whose membership is current should have received an email today about registration for the 2026 conference. If you didn't receive the email, make sure your membership hasn't lapsed. The program can be found here: custom.cvent.com/DADF18846EBF...

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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Welcome - 2026 NAPS Annual Meeting

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Those members of NAPS whose membership is current should have received an email today about the 2026 meeting. For those who did not receive the email, renew your membership; and you can view the email at www.patristics.org/annual-meeti... Please share widely with your network & on social media.

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Call for Papers – NAPS – The North American Patristics Society

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

All faculty consultations about some new project are basically this: I don’t have a strong opinion, I support those who want to do it, I personally don’t want to be involved, and there’s no way I am leading it.

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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

hey NAPS members! you should have gotten an email from President David Brakke asking for your honest thoughts on what is important to you in our conference we we can find a more economically sustainable path! make your voice heard! didn't get the email? check your membership status!

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

"'Do not despise' he took from common usage, some people being accustomed to say, I despised so-and-so, that is, I was pleased to see him struggling with problems." Theodoret of Cyrus, Commentary on Obadiah (trans. C. Hill, p. 131). So the ancients knew about schadenfreude.

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This seems like a watershed moment regarding the cultural hegemony of English and the advent of reliable AI translation. bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.05...

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Changes to BMCR’s language policy – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

While at #NAPS2025 this week popped into the Art Institute to see the fascinating Torlonia Collection exhibit.

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Dual language editions on facing pages. Coming late 2025 or early 2026: Phoebadius, Contra Arianos (DelCogliano) Apollinarius, Kata Meros Pistos (Kelley Spoerl) Theodore, Debate with Macedonians (Matt Crawford)

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A monumental achievement and contribution!

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Early Christianity folks: I've come across an allusion in a 4th-cen. text to God delivering Paul from the Samaritans. This doesn't seem to refer to a canonical text; any ideas what it's talking about?

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It is wonderful to have these mss. freely available online -- and even downloadable. Last year I paid for access to study VLF 58, which is the only ms. which preserves Phoebadius's Contra Arrianos, a new edition of which I have forthcoming. www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01...

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More than 300 medieval manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Vossiana now available in open access - Leiden University

The most important group of medieval manuscripts from the Special Collections of the University Libraries of Leiden (UBL), the Codices Vossiani Latini, is now available in open access via the Digital ...

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Manuscript people, if you're trying to discover new mss. that preserve a particular Latin text, where do you turn? What resources do you use? Is there nothing like Pinakes for Greek texts?

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Anyone able to decipher the word circled in red? "....(H)er(aclianus) dixit: hoc ad ????? felicitatem et ad gloriam meam pertinet...."

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Anyone able to decipher the word circled in red? "....(H)er(aclianus) dixit: hoc ad ????? felicitatem et ad gloriam meam pertinet...."

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Manuscript experts: Where does one find a ms. referred to as "Stuttgartensis Theol. 4°, 260"? Any chance this is digitized?

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

At Epiphany mass today the priest was speaking of the magi beholding "the powerless infant," but then corrected himself, saying, "well, powerless in appearance." I spent the rest of mass considering whether the correction accords with Neo-Chalcedonian Christology. What do you think?

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

At my parents in NC to celebrate my Dad's 80th. I mistakenly used a "show" towel to wash my hands.

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

A major publication! Cyril’s massive Contra Julianum in English for the first time!

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

“History is merely a repetition of the same facts applied to different men at different times.” Chateaubriand, Memoirs 22.16, comparing Napoleon to Nero.

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Thanks, Sarah, for bringing this to our attention. For those who attend NAPS in May, the exhibit will be going on at the Art Institute.

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

inaugurating a new series, out next summer in hard copy + open-access PDF: on the so-called hymn of the pearl, with Syriac & Greek texts + English translations, Syriac & Greek glossaries, and commentary (incl. a lot of Manichaean texts) 🐍 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

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The Pearlsong — Harvard University Press

The Pearlsong is an ancient poem that recounts the story of a Parthian prince sent by his parents on a mission to Egypt to retrieve a pearl from the clutches of a giant serpent. Along the way, the pri...

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

New arrival today from Dr. Storin himself! Congratulations!

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

TFW you come up with a pleasing turn of phrase, only to discover Anthony Grafton beat you to it 30 years ago.

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Found an old library card this morning.

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

A fantastic new volume on Gregory of Nyssa’s On the Hexaemeron, inaugurating what promises to be a fantastic ic new series, OUP’s Library of Early Christian Philosophy.

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Theodoret of Cyrus, Commentary on Jeremiah 23: “…far from being demented, the prophets were ministers of the divine sayings” (trans. Hill).

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Aside from Bart Ehrman’s work, has anyone written on late ancient literary forgery?

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Don’t use Spotify, I feel left out. My LPs don’t tally my top artists for me.

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Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I work from home once or twice a week, and I find myself on those days going down all-consuming scholarly rabbit holes. Somehow this doesn’t happen at my campus office.

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