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Jeremiah Coogan
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Gospels, material texts, philology, Late Antiquity | Assistant Professor of New Testament
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Delighted to dive into this new monograph from Sam Johnson: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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June 29, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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“A picture of the Mother of Our Lord and His Disciple John, whom he loved, as they stood beneath the cross. May their prayers protect us. Amen”
Image: Walters Museum, W.850.196V; dimensions: 11 13/16 x W: 9 5/8 in. (30 x 24.5 cm); first half of the 16th century (Stephanite); ink and pigments on heavy, thick parchment; Byzantium and Early Russia, Manuscripts and Rare Books); Provenance: Monastery at Gunda Gunde, northeastern Ethiopia, early- to mid- sixteenth century. https://art.thewalters.org/object/W.850.196V/. INSCRIPTION: “A picture of the Mother of Our Lord and His Disciple John, whom he loved, as they stood beneath the cross. May their prayers protect us. Amen”
June 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Proofs!
First page of the uncorrected proofs for an essay entitled “Notes” that will appear in Coogan, Jeremiah, Joseph A. Howley and Candida R. Moss, eds. Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE–300 CE. Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025.
April 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Acknowledgments:
Earlier versions of this material were presented at KU Leuven as part of the conference “Early Christian Practices of Authorship,” organized by Sabrina Inowlocki (June 2023); at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the Universität Hamburg (July 2023); at the Center for Advanced Studies “Beyond Canon_” at the Universität Regensburg (July 2023); and at the Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät at the Universität Tübingen (July 2023). I am grateful to these audiences for their generous and incisive engagement, as well as to Candida Moss, Janet Spittler, and Logan Williams for rich conversation about a number of these ideas. Financial support was provided by Santa Clara University and by a J. P. Gumbert Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the Universität Hamburg.
February 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Forthcoming in the next issue of Early Christianity!
Jeremiah Coogan Title: The Order of Gospel Books: Heresy, Anthology, and Authorship in Late Antiquity Abstract: Early Christian thinkers organized books and readers in order to address a wide range of historical, theological, and ecclesial questions. As part of this late ancient habit of “bibliographic thinking,” texts from varied genres advance arguments about the sequence in which gospel books were written, the nature of the authorship involved, and the literary structures of a gospel corpus. This article analyzes how theories of gospel order functioned as loci of heresiological argument and authorial definition in the Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, late ancient “anti-Marcionite” gospel prefaces, and the Acts of Timothy. Keywords: anthology, authorship, bibliographic thinking, editing, heresiology, knowledge
February 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Great to hold this new publication in my hands!
The cover of the New Cambridge Companion to Jesus, showing a wooden carving of Jesus, wearing a crown of thorns. The beginning of a chapter on “Jesus in Christian Material Culture,” written by Jeremiah Coogan.
January 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Thrilled to have hosted the incredible Mike Chin at our faculty colloquium yesterday to discuss Mike's superb new book, _Life: The Natural History of an Early Christian Universe_!
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December 5, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Some of the texts that we’ll be reading and discussing in my “Early Christianity and Enslavement” course this fall.
September 3, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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Here's a piece of the other side of the same manuscript:
Another bit of parchment, here with some holes.
July 16, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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Manuscript friends, any thoughts on what animal this piece of parchment comes from? I have thoughts, but would love a second opinion.
An image of a piece of parchment.
July 16, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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I'm looking forward to discussing book formats and textual practices at SBL this coming November!
Dear Jeremiah, Congratulations, your paper, What Did the Codex Change?, was accepted for the 2024 Annual Meeting program unit Book History and Biblical Literatures. The meeting will be held in San Diego, California from 11/23/2024 to 11/26/2024.
April 23, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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My abstract for NAPS this year has been accepted! I'll be talking about "Identification Documents: Sacrificial Libelli and Christian Textual Practices in the Third and Fourth Centuries."
Text of acceptance email, including the title of my paper.
January 10, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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Proofs day!
September 13, 2023 at 2:25 PM