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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D.

@pauldwheatley.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof. NT and Greek, Nashotah House Theol. Sem. Mark, Paul, Baptism, Greco-Roman ritual and reading, Rabbis, Origen, Classical Narratology. Manuscript looker, vinyl listener, dad style guru, too many boots and books. Episcopal Priest. Texas forever.

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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but someday you may be writing a dissertation or monograph and you may be tempted to unlink your citation software and then start revising the unlinked document. It’s very important that you don’t do that.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
@jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social delivers his A.R. Pete Diamond award-winning paper “Synoptic Work: Compositional Practices, Invisible Labor, and the Synoptic Problem”. Brent Nongbri responds. Follow QR code for Jeremiah’s notes. #aarsbl25 #sblaar25
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Nice turnout for the Book Review: Sarah Emanuel's Wresting with Paul: The Apostle, His Readers, and the Fate of the Jews (Fortress Press 2025). Are we starting a new sect?
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
New Article Dropping Soon I’m happy to report that my article “The Spirit Purifies All Foods: Baptism as Bodily Purification in the Jewish Matrix of Mark 7.1-23” has been accepted for publication with New Testament Studies (NTS) @cambridgeuniversitypress with minor revisions. Abstract below.
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AGNTS Journal @agntsjournal.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
We just launched the first volume of AGNTS today with excellent contributions from Matthias Konradt, Peter Stuhlmacher, Oda Wischmeyer, @christophheilig.bsky.social , and Christine Jacobi, as well as a few historical pieces by William Wrede. agntsjournal.com
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Home - Accessible German New Testament Scholarship
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
June 12–15, 2025, I co-organized the Anima Theologiae conference w/ Charles Hughes-Huff and Gary Klump made possible by a grant from the @CatholicBiblica, integrating hist. and theological exegesis. Gary Anderson, Ephraim Radner, Edith Humphrey, Gregory Vall, and Aaron Pidel SJ. More to come!
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I’ve always loved @themountaingoats.bsky.social ‘s music, but now I love their cultural analysis.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Oh, just submitting my book manuscript the day before I head to Rome for some manuscript research on a new project kinda vibes this frigid Tuesday.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana or Pearl Jam
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It’s me.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Talking Mark and Judaism over Greek food with @paultsloan.bsky.social Logan Williams, John van Maaren, Jacob Mortensen, and Kasper Bro Larsen #sblaar24
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
See you at 4pm?
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Another one! #sblaar24 run group on the Embarcadero! @nickelder.bsky.social @runhudi.bsky.social and more!
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This is the content we need at #sblaar24. Thanks @ryancollman.bsky.social !
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
First #sblaar24 run group meeting in the books. @runhudi.bsky.social @nickelder.bsky.social @maklelan.bsky.social and others hit the road at 6:30 this morning.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Taught two classes today. Recorded an online lecture before 6am. Rolled into the terminal at MKE five minutes before departure. Dodged a snow storm on the way. My point? I’m on my way to #sblaar24 but I was never combobulated to begin with. At MKEAirport
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Purchased! I had to pay shipping, so it totaled $21-ish. Grab @ryancollman.bsky.social ‘s excellent book on the cheap!
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Annual self-promotion 4 #AARSBL24. Do you like food? What about baths? Ever thought about baptizing your bed? Are you a fan of the 80s Australian AltRock group Midnight Oil? You’re not alone! Come to my paper “‘How Do We Sleep While Our Beds Are Baptized?’ Tohorot and Baptism in Mark 7:4” Mon 11/25
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Join us #aarsbl24
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
NT / EC Studies Hive Mind: I’m finishing up an intro exegesis course syllabus on Romans and I have a few slots for reception history. Any accessible seminary-level articles or patristic / modern passages of Romans interp you would recommend? 20pp.-ish
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
I think my abstract has been accepted (or not?) to Oxford Patristics. See those of you who like Origen, Paul, or Origen and Paul there. Hopefully.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
My favorite day in Intro NT is my “Here’s some bits of Stoic physics… Now here’s Paul talking about baptism and the Spirit” lecture. The red dots are πνεύμα, drawn last week in my setup lecture. Today, I draw “clothing in Christ” and “Christ formed in you” in there.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
I am *very* interested in this!
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
It’s one of those “Crushed moth on your student’s paper” days. My scribble reads: “Sorry (student)! A moth found its way into my grading folder and then got crushed in my bag! Sic transit gloria mundi.”
It’s one of those “Crushed moth on your student’s paper” days. My scribble reads: “Sorry (student)! A moth found its way into my grading folder and then got crushed in my bag! Sic transit gloria mundi.”
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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Another extremely fascinating fragment from the Taylor-Schechter Genizah collection containing excerpts related to the life of Jesus (apparently not Toledot Yeshu) in Judeao-Arabic:
geniza.princeton.edu
Literary text: T-S AS 157.386
Excerpts from the Gospels, or possibly Toldot Yeshu (though the depiction of Jesus seems too positive and faithful to the…
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
Sign our petition against job cuts at ACU act.newmode.net/action/nteu/...
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ACU Senate: Don't make staff pay for ACU's overspending
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 02/09/2023
This is a big deal
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
“Is this the good place?”
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Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
Matthew, Luke, and Thomas in a second- or third-century papyrus—but not Q!
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Scholars Publish New Papyrus With Early Sayings of Jesus
Papyrologists date the fragment to the second century CE, making it one of the earliest examples of Christian writing, even before the formation of the New Testament.
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
Here's my latest article, in open access: I analyze Mark's use of immersive narrative to portray ritual acts in reference to baptism, arguing that attention to rites known prior to Mark (i.e. in Paul) allows audience-oriented readings via text-oriented means. www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14...
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The Ritual Bridge between Narrative and Performance in the Gospel of Mark
The abundance of ritual descriptions in the Gospel of Mark suggests a discourse about ritual between the narrator and early audiences of the Gospel. The prominence of the ritual of baptism at the begi...
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Paul D. Wheatley, Ph.D. @pauldwheatley.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
Starting off September and the new school year with a new social media. What could go wrong?
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