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Christoph Heilig @christophheilig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Short article about my new book www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/... @lmu.de @blugger.bsky.social @badw.de

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

After a month or so back on Twitter, this place seems incredibly dull. And now with UA bombing Yandex, the nimber of Russian trolls seems rather minimal too!

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

But recently someone on X said they took Hengel's view to be that they were added by someone else (a copyist?) early on in the transmission. Any thoughts?

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

'Schon der Evangelist Markus oder seine Freunde versahen sein Buch … mit dem heutigen Titel "Evangelium nach Markus".'

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

How do you read Hengel's remarks on the origins of the Gospel titles? I've always taken Hengel to regard Mark's title at least as authorial ('geht auf Markus zurück'). And Baum comes very close in his reading of Hengel too.

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This may be a big ask but does anyone have PDFs of Müller-Kessler & Sokoloff CCPA vols 1–3 (Gronigen 1997–8)? Many thanks in advance!

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm also quite busy but fine, thanks for asking. We've just returned from a wonderful month in Cambridge (Tyndale House), which proved very 'erholsam' to my soul at many levels.

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Who are some of the more recent prominent proponents of the Pauline authorship of Eph? Honest question (coming from a conservative, though that shouldn’t matter)!

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ukraine has had to ground all passenger flight since Feb 2022. Maybe Russia, the aggressor here, should take some responsibility and do the same?

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Anyone with a recent-ish experience with ZAC? Wondering what their turnaround (submission-decision) is like these days.

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

After a week back on Twitter, my first impression is that the engagement there is considerably greater, though most of the academics from my ‘bubble’ are no longer active or have deleted their accounts downright. Yet the quietness of this space, while gloriously lacking in toxicity, depresses me.

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

And now some of these super-reliable AI detection apps also offer to 'humanise' your text. Way to go, robots!

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I repeated the experiment with longer chunks of texts, using Pangram again. So, I pasted the paragraph that was initially flagged as 100% AI along with four preceding paragraphs, effectively quadroupling the amount of text. The result was 100% human.

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It flagged much less and some of what it flagged were references to secondary literature and Greek quotations. So strange!

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

P.S. Most of this experiment was conducted using Pangram, followed by Grammarly. I then tried analysing the same text using ZeroGPT, which yielded results which were pretty much totally at odds with the previous two.

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Could this be because academic writing can generally be quite sterile? Would something less formal, artsy or journalistic prove more suitable for testing?

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I pasted several paragraphs which were 100% AI in origin and indeed it was quite common to see 50-50 detection.

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

False positives were surprisingly frequent, so that in two cases paragraphs that were 100% human-written were flagged as 100% AI. I was expecting false negatives to occur more frequently, and they did:

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I've recently experimented with Pangram AI detection software and, having worked with around 2000 words of academic text (too small a sample, admittedly) I'm not entirely confident in its detection capabilities.

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

They really don’t. I recently did a little experiment with Pangram and some others and was disillusioned with the results.

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I’m back. Just re-followed you with my new account

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I think I’ve found (inadvertently) a way to cite one of the Paddington bear books in an academic work. I can’t say I’m displeased.

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I have been less active too, as my posts seem to be getting little engagement – much less, I must say, than they did in the Twitter-sphere!

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I deleted my old account, so I’d have to start from scratch. Probably not worth it? I really don’t know at this point.

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I think people just gave up as most folk stayed on Twitter. I left Twitter when it went crazy but am really at a loss now.

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’m seriously considering returning to Twitter. This place is as dead as the Slovak economy.

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

That day when you find out the list of plates in your article is, well, just a list of plates (without any plates included). #proofs #gottacatchemall

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Anyone with a recent experience with ZAC? What was the turnaround in your case?

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

On 3 August, I'll give a short paper at the Vacation Term for Biblical Studies in Cambridge, followed by a brief drinks reception. Hope to see some of you there!

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Today, my ISBTF email account was deleted—another telltale sign that Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal is shutting down. Very sad to see a school that the Gestapo was unable to break fall victim to church politics and economy. Religious apathy is more lethal than persecution.

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just started reading Mistborn and I’m already hooked. Thanks so much for the recommendation!

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A brilliant, if harrowing, op-ed from a seasoned geologist called 'How scientometry is killing science'. What he writes is so relevant to other fields of study as well, particularly in European context. Note last sentence: 'Do not let us ever forget: More does not automatically mean better.'

rock.geosociety.org

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I don't like posing a positive example (quite the contrary), but, despite a few failures, I always try to deliver peer-review within 1 month of accepting, ideally much sooner (i.e. under a week). I hate protracted periods of waiting for a decision and this is the least I can do to improve things.

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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I don't usually post about this kind of thing, but I'm too excited to keep it to myself. 🎉 My husband just launched an app— Citation Master — and it solves a problem every academic knows too well. citation-master.ai/b2b-video.ht...

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Citation Master | Intro Video

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

More importantly, though: I hope you're doing well health-wise. Just saw your pinned tweet and would like to apologise for not expressing my well-wishes and sympathies earlier!

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I've not heard yet, just checked the time span since the submission! lol

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

5 months since my JBL submission. Not sure I've ever experienced such a long decision time and I may not even be halfway through with the wait!

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Enjoying a dive into Holger Strutwolf’s FC. What a wide array of fine essays by such a battery of contributors. A testament, no doubt, to how many lives Holger has touched over the years.

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Critical Texts @criticaltexts.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

criticaltexts.com/how-many-com... For decades, it's been widely claimed that there are about 60 complete Greek NT manuscripts. But what qualifies as “complete”? And are there really 60 manuscripts that meet that criterion? This post examines these questions in light of the manuscript evidence.

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How many complete Greek New Testament manuscripts are there REALLY?

How many complete Greek New Testament manuscripts are there REALLY? By For decades, the standard answer to the question, “How many complete Greek New Testament manuscripts do we currently have?” ha…

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Three months ago, I submitted to JBL. Normally, by this time an editorial manager website would go something like 'Decision pending' or, at least, 'Awaiting reviewer reports'. On JBL website, however, it's been 'Under review' from Day 1. The suspense is killin' me!

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Rude journal editors (especially to early-career authors) are reason enough to boycott the journal. Discuss.

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Peter Malik @petrosmalik.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Thanks so much, Bethany. He's now on my radar!

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