Research

(2027) A Cultural History of Western Myth: The Enlightenment. 4,

Birch, J. (2027) Narrating the Origins of the Quest: The Historical Jesus in Early Modern Cultural Complexity. Bloomsbury

Allen, G. V. (2026) Words Are Not Enough.

Allen, G., Fowler, K. A., Scieri, E., Venetskov, M. (2026) Codex H of the Pauline Epistles (GA 015), Introduction and Edition. de Gruyter

Nicholson, S. (2026) Sexualities and biblical sex work. Bloomsbury Publishing

Allen, G. (2026) Manuscripts & the Mind.

Allen, G. V. (2026) Fruitfulness in New Testament textual scholarship. New Testament Studies,

Allen, G., Fowler, K., Scieri, E., Venetskov, M. (2026) Annotating the New Testament: Codex H, Euthalian Traditions.

Venetskov, M. (2026) Critical edition of the Ladder of John Sinaites based on the Sinaitic manuscript branch. St Catherine Monastery

Venetskov, M. (2026) Manuscript Tradition of the Ladder: Between the Text and Paratexts. Peeters

Venetskov, M. (2026) Tetraevangelia in Orthodox Liturgical Calendars: Byzantine Manuscripts and Church Practices. Cambridge University Press

Venetskov, M. (2025) Sinai: Monte Della Teofania, Luogo Dei Monaci.

Venetskov, M. (2025) Le commentaire d’Élie de Crète sur Jean Climaque: ses sources et sa méthode.

Bahena-Rivera, A., Rodenbiker, K. G., Scheepers, C., Allen, G. V. (2025) Paratexts, manuscripts, literature, and understanding. Eerdmans

Allen, G. (2025) Revelation. Bloomsbury Publishing

Venetskov, M. (2025) The scholia in the Ladder of Divine Ascent by John Climacus: Creating and transmitting (Para)text, Book, and Corpus.

Allen, G. V. (2025) Technology and preservation: thoughts on the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room and the Hoskier archive. De Gruyter

Allen, G. V., Fowler, K. A., Scieri, E., Venetskov, M. (2025) The Euthalian Tradition of the New Testament: A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts. Brill

Allen, G. V. (2025) Studies of shapes: subjectivity in palaeography and understanding. New Testament Studies, 71, pp. 231-242. (doi: 10.1017/S0028688524000377)

Allen, G. V., Fowler, K. (2025) The story of Codex H (GA 015): manuscript migration and primary sources in biblical studies. Journal of Biblical Literature, 144, pp. 167-196. (doi: 10.15699/jbl.1441.2025.9)

Venetskov, M. (2025) Catalogue of Greek manuscripts of the Ladder of John Climacus (900 references) St Catherine Monastery

Allen, G. V. (2025) Connecting manuscripts, psychology, and the arts. Chester Beatty

Birch, J. (2024) A mind for all seasons. Open House, 323,

Allen, G. V. (2024) What Are Paratexts and How Do They Change How We Read the Bible?

Venetskov, M. (2024) The Transmission of the New Testament in Byzantium: Reading “Collages” and Copyist Mistakes.

Allen, G. V. (2024) What can we Learn from Manuscripts of the New Testament?

Venetskov, M. (2024) L’histoire Textuelle de la Scala dans les Manuscrits Grecs de Provenance Italienne.

Venetskov, M. (2024) L’échelle des Vertus et L’échelle des Vices chez Jean Climaque.

Venetskov, M. (2024) The Coexistence of Dorothean and Euthalian Apparati in Multiple Framings of the Apostolic Epistles.

Allen, G. V. (2024) Words Are Not Enough: Paratexts, Manuscripts, and the Real New Testament. Eerdmans

Nicholson, S., Domoney-Lyttle, Z. (2024) Activism in the classroom: a case study on de-patriarchalising biblical studies for future generations. Sheffield Phoenix Press

Birch, J. C.P. (2024) Let in the light: learning to read St. Augustine’s confessions. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 24, pp. 271-273. (doi: 10.1080/1474225X.2023.2246292)

Nicholson, S. L. (2024) The challenges involved in teaching Biblical Hebrew to students with dyslexia: some observations. Teaching Theology and Religion, 27, pp. 30-36. (doi: 10.1111/teth.12659)

Allen, G. (2024) Mapping The Margins.

Nicholson, S. (2024) Buffy the Philistine slayer: echoes of Samson in the Buffyverse. T&T Clark

Venetskov, M. (2024) Comment intituler l’œuvre de Jean Climaque?‎ Un nouvel éclairage d’après la tradition manuscrite ‎‎grecque‎ Peeters Publishers

(2024) New perspectives on the Ladder of John Climacus.

Allen, G., Rodenbiker, K., Vercesi, M., Fowler, K., Venetskov, M., Su, L. (2024) Titles of the New Testament Database and Search Tool.

Venetskov, M. (2024) “The perfect imperfect perfection of the perfects”: longing for perfection in the Ladder of John Sinaites. Brill

Allen, G., Fowler, K. A., Rodenbiker, K. G., Venetskov, M., Vercesi, M., Su, L. (2023) Editing paratexts: Observations from the New Testament’s titles. Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, 9, pp. 187-204. (doi: 10.25592/uhhfdm.14103)

Venetskov, M. (2023) The Liturgical Marginal Marks on the Holy Week Readings in Tetraevangelia Manuscripts.

Birch, J. C.P. (2023) Cats, Christendom, and the undivided self: the feline philosophy of John Gray. Theology in Scotland, 30, pp. 75-86. (doi: 10.15664/tis.v30i2.2671)

Venetskov, M. (2023) Sinaitic Readers of Gospel and Apostle Manuscripts: Between the Text and Multiple Paratexts.

Allen, G. V. (2023) Transcription Guidelines - Annotating the New Testament: Codex H, Euthalian Traditions, and the Humanities project.

Venetskov, M. (2023) Synaxaria and Menologia on the New Testament Readings: Typology and Criteria for a Critical Edition.

Birch, J. C.P. (2023) Science and Religion in Western Literature. Expository Times, 134, pp. 497-499. (doi: 10.1177/00145246231181774)

Allen, G. V. (2023) Smells like teen spirit: Steve Moyise and G. K. Beale on the use of scripture in Revelation in the 1990s. Bloomsbury Publishing, Imprint T&T Clark

Venetskov, M. (2023) Layouts of Inscriptions and Subscriptions to the Gospels and Apostles in Syriac and Slavic Translations.

Allen, G. V. (2023) Aramaica qumranica apocalyptica and the book of Revelation. SBL Press

Allen, G. V. (2023) Are there ancient editions of Paul’s letters? The Euthalian apparatus as a storehouse of tradition. Studia Theologica: Nordic Journal of Theology, 77, pp. 200-230. (doi: 10.1080/0039338X.2023.2191992)

Allen, G. V. (2023) Eschatology. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Rodenbiker, K. G., Allen, G. V. (2023) The Euthaliana and the Catholic Epistles. Zeitschrift fur Neues Testament, 26, pp. 39-53. (doi: 10.24053/ZNT-2023-0003)

Venetskov, M. (2023) Text, Image, and Books in Evangelist Icons.

Venetskov, M. (2023) Introductory Pieces in Catena Manuscripts of the New Testament.

(2023) The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri at Ninety. 10,

Venetskov, M. (2023) The Gospel Manuscripts Linked to Cyprus: A Study of their Paratexts.

Royle, A. P., Allen, G. V. (2023) Framing Mark: reading Mark 16 in a Catena manuscript. Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, 8, pp. 385-400. (doi: 10.25592/uhhfdm.12441)

Allen, G. V. (2023) Alfred Chester Beatty and his Biblical (and other) Papyri at Ninety. De Gruyter

Birch, J. C.P. (2022) The theological house that Jack (un)built: Halberstam on an aesthetics of collapse and mushrooms among the ruin. Theology in Scotland, 29, pp. 60-73. (doi: 10.15664/tis.v29i2.2525)

Birch, J. C.P. (2022) Three Lions, divine comedy and making Jews count: Baddiel and Skinner, then and now. Theology in Scotland, 29, pp. 74-91. (doi: 10.15664/tis.v29i2.2526)

Allen, G. V., Dilley, P., Phillips, P. (2022) Textual approaches, image analysis, and bottom-up approaches in religious studies. Brill

(2022) New Approaches to Textual and Image Analysis in Early Jewish and Christian Studies. 5, (doi: 10.1163/9789004515116)

Allen, G. (2022) AT THE THRESHOLD: To Imagine That.

Venetskov, M. (2022) Towards a Critical Edition of the Ladder, John Climacus’ Book: Ecdotic Method and Digital ‎Platform.

Allen, G. V. (2022) Libraries, special libraries, and John of Patmos. Bloomsbury Publishing

(2022) Reading, Writing, and Bookish Circles in the Ancient Mediterranean.

Venetskov, M. (2022) « Πυρὸς πλέον » ou « le feu de Cléophas » : comment rééditer la Scala Paradisi ?

Birch, J. C. P. (2022) Imagining the Gifford Lectures: 134 not out. Theology in Scotland, 29, pp. 55-71. (doi: 10.15664/tis.v29i1.2433)

Allen, G. V. (2022) Early textual scholarship on acts: Observations from the Euthalian quotation lists. Religions, 13, (doi: 10.3390/rel13050435)

Allen, G. V. (2022) Titles in the New Testament papyri. New Testament Studies, 68, pp. 156-171. (doi: 10.1017/S0028688521000370)

Venetskov, M. (2022) Food for ascetics and excessive fasting in the Ladder of John Climacus. Peeters Publishers

(2022) Titles, Paratexts, and Manuscript Communication: Jewish and Christian Literature in Material Context. Religions,

Nicholson, S. (2021) Constructing 'The Prostitute': Masters and Johnson could learn something from Tamar. Sheffield Pheonix Press

Domoney-Lyttle, Z., Nicholson, S. (2021) Introduction: What is a woman? Contested identities in the Bible. Sheffield Pheonix Press

(2021) Women and Gender in the Bible: Texts, Intersections, and Intertexts. 77,

Venetskov, M. (2021) Reading traditions of the Ladder of John Sinaites according to the manuscript marks‎ Peeters Publishers

Venetskov, M. (2021) The monastic teacher and his apprentice on the marginal notes of the Ladder manuscripts‎

Allen, G. V. (2021) Exodus traditions in the synoptic gospels. Brill

Allen, G. V., Rodenbiker, K. G. (2021) TiNT Project Transcription Guidelines.

Allen, G. (2021) The possibilities of a gospel codex: GA 2064 (Dublin, CBL W 139), digital editing, and reading in a manuscript culture. Journal of Biblical Literature, 140, pp. 409-434. (doi: 10.15699/jbl.1402.2021.10)

Venetskov, M. (2021) “The perfect imperfect perfection of the perfects”:‎ Longing for Perfection in the Ladder of John Sinaites.

Birch, J. C.P. (2021) Review essay: When the dancing turned to mourning: Theological responses to the pandemic. Theology in Scotland, 28, pp. 62-80. (doi: 10.15664/tis.v28i1.2186)

(2021) Women and Gender in the Bible and the Biblical World II. Open Theology, 7,

Venetskov, M. (2021) Alexey V. Barmin, Евстратий Никейский. Опровержительные слова [Eustrate de Nicée, ‎Discours antirrhétiques] (Б-ка сб-ка « Богословские труды »). – Издательство Московской ‎Патриархии РПЦ, Moscou 2016. 22 × 15. lxiv-243 p. ISBN 978-5-88017-564-2. Revue des Études Byzantines, 79, pp. 338-341. (doi: 10.2143/REB.79.0.3289651)

Clivaz, C., Allen, G. V. (2021) Classics@18: Ancient Manuscripts and Virtual Research Environments [Special Co-Editor] Classics@, 18,

Nicholson, S. (2021) Complete Biblical Hebrew: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Biblical Hebrew, With Original Texts. Hodder & Stoughton

Allen, G. V., Rodenbiker, K. G., Royle, A. P. (2021) Fragments : The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri in Context.

Royle, A., Allen, G., Monier, M. (2021) GA 2604 f.176v, f.177r, f.177v and f.178r. (doi: 10.34847/nkl.cfac1n0c)

Venetskov, M. (2021) Index biblicvs. Brepols

Venetskov, M. (2021) Index fontivm. Brepols

Clivaz, C., Allen, G. V. (2021) Introduction: ancient manuscripts and virtual research environments. Classics@, 18,

Birch, J. (2021) Robert R. Beck: Jesus and His Enemies: Narrative Conflict in the Four Gospels: Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2017. Pp. x, 237. Pb. £29.99: ISBN 978-1-62698-243-7. Modern Believing, 62, pp. 286-288. (doi: 10.3828/mb.2021.18)

Allen, G. V., Conlan, O., Conran, C., Debruyne, C., Nicholson, M., O’Sullivan, D., Rodenbiker, K., Royle, A. P. (2021) The New Testament in virtual research environments: titles, Greek manuscripts, data querying. Classics@, 18,

Allen, G. (2021) Titles of the New Testament (TiNT)

Nicholson, S., Domoney-Lyttle, Z. (2021) Women and gender in the Bible and the biblical world II: editorial introduction. Open Theology, 7, pp. 670-674. (doi: 10.1515/opth-2020-0188)

Allen, G., Clivaz, C. (2020) Ancient manuscripts and virtual research environments. Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, 6, pp. 205-208. (doi: 10.25592/uhhfdm.8477)

Birch, J. C.P. (2020) Review essay: To Hell and back with David Bentley Hart. Theology in Scotland, 27, pp. 61-74. (doi: 10.15664/tis.v27i2.2140)

Allen, G. V. (2020) Outils numériques pour travailler avec les manuscrits du Nouveau Testament. Foi et Vie: Revue protestante de culture, 2020, pp. 19-27.

Allen, G. V., Royle, A. P. (2020) Paratexts seeking understanding: manuscripts and aesthetic cognitivism. Religions, 11, (doi: 10.3390/rel11100523)

Allen, G. V. (2020) An anti-Islamic marginal comment in the Apocalypse of “Codex Reuchlin” (GA 2814) and its tradition. De Gruyter

Birch, J. (2020) Genesis and Cosmos: Basil and Origen on Genesis 1 and Cosmology, Adam Rasmussen: BAC 14; Leiden: Brill, 2019, 978-90-04-39692-0, €121.00, 210 hb. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 42, pp. 128. (doi: 10.1177/0142064X20928853)

Birch, J. (2020) History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology. The 2018 Gifford Lectures, N.T. Wright: Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2019, 978-1-4813-0962-2, $34.75, xxi + 343 hb. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 42, pp. 11-12. (doi: 10.1177/0142064X20928815)

Nicholson, S., Domoney-Lyttle, Z. (2020) Activism in the classroom: a case study on de-patriarchalising Biblical Studies for future generations. Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2, pp. 248-265. (doi: 10.17613/n0a2-e260)

Allen, G. V. (2020) Manuscripts of the Book of Revelation: New Philology, Paratexts, Reception. Oxford University Press

Allen, G. V. (2020) Monks, manuscripts, Muhammad, and the future of the critical editions. De Gruyter

Allen, G. (2020) Insights Hidden in Plain Sight.

Allen, G. (2020) What happened on the first Easter Sunday?

Venetskov, M. (2020) Le discours Ad pastorem de Jean Climaque et son Commentaire par Nicéphore Calliste ‎Xanthopoulos : ‎édition critique de la partie finale. Sacris Erudiri, 59, pp. 117-182. (doi: 10.1484/J.SE.5.124512)

(2020) Women and Gender in the Bible and the Biblical World. Open Theology, 6,

Allen, G. V. (2020) Aesthetic Cognitivism in the Arts, Theology, Biblical Studies, and Manuscript Cultures: An Annotated Bibliography.

Allen, G. V. (2020) Manuscripts beyond the Canon. Ancient Jew Review,

Allen, G. (2020) Metatron visual art. de Gruyter

Allen, G. V., Rodenbiker, K. G. (2020) Titles of the New Testament (TiNT): a new approach to manuscripts and the history of interpretation. Early Christianity, 11, pp. 265-280. (doi: 10.1628/ec-2020-0012)

Nicholson, S., Domoney-Lyttle, Z. (2020) Women and gender in the Bible and the biblical world: editorial introduction. Open Theology, 6, pp. 706-710. (doi: 10.1515/opth-2020-0143)

Allen, G. V. (2019) Paratexts and the reception history of the Apocalypse. Journal of Theological Studies, 70, pp. 600-632. (doi: 10.1093/jts/flz092)

Allen, G. V. (2019) Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman. To Cast the First Stone: The Transmission of a Gospel Story. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies,

Venetskov, M. (2019) La lettre upsilon du Florilège Coislin. Byzantion, 89, pp. 359-395. (doi: 10.2143/BYZ.89.0.3287076)

Allen, G. V. (2019) Holger Strutwolf, Georg Gäbel, Annette Hüffmeier, Gerd Mink, and Klaus Wachtel (eds). Novum Testamentum Graecum Editio Critica Maior. III Die Apostelgeschichte/Acts of the Apostles. 3 parts, 4 volumes. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2017. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies,

Venetskov, M. (2019) La rédaction des pièces-annexes de l’Échelle de Jean du Sinaï : de la Lettre de Jean de Raïthou à la ‎Table rétrograde‎ Medioevo Greco, 19, pp. 221-258.

(2019) Son of God: Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity. (doi: 10.5325/j.ctv14gpcwm)

Allen, G. V. (2019) The Son of God in the book of Revelation and apocalyptic literature. Eisenbrauns

Birch, J. C.P. (2019) Revolutionary contexts for the quest: Jesus in the rhetoric and methods of Early Modern intellectual history. Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, 17, pp. 35-80. (doi: 10.1163/17455197-01701005)

(2019) Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies and Theology. Open Theology, 5,

Birch, J. C.P. (2019) Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment: Radical Gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. Palgrave Macmillan

(2019) The Future of New Testament Textual Scholarship: From H. C. Hoskier to the Editio Critica Maior and Beyond.

Allen, G. (2019) 4 Ezra and Revelation 11:1–19: a man from the sea and the two witnesses. Zondervan

Allen, G. V. (2019) Digital tools for working with New Testament manuscripts. Open Theology, 5, pp. 13-28. (doi: 10.1515/opth-2019-0002)

Allen, G. V. (2019) Malchus visual art. de Gruyter

Clivaz, C., Allen, G. V. (2019) The digital humanities in biblical and theological studies. Open Theology, 5, pp. 461-465. (doi: 10.1515/opth-2019-0035)

Allen, G. V. (2019) The patient collator and the philology of the beyond: H. C. Hoskier and the New Testament. Mohr Siebeck

Allen, G. V., Dunne, J. A. (2019) What does ‘Reading’ have to do with it? Ancient engagement with Jewish Scripture. Brill

Venetskov, M. (2018) Structure des trente degrés de l'Échelle de Jean du Sinaï : Libellés des titres et phrases conclusives‎ Byzantion, 88, pp. 365-422. (doi: 10.2143/BYZ.88.0.3285457)

Allen, G. (2018) All you ever wanted to know about blasphemy.

(2018) Ancient Readers and their Scriptures: Engaging the Hebrew Bible in Early Judaism and Christianity. (doi: 10.1163/9789004383371)

Allen, G. V. (2018) Crafting crosswords: a cruciverbalist approach to Paul's letters. Teaching Theology and Religion, 21, pp. 304. (doi: 10.1111/teth.12458)

Allen, G. V. (2018) Rewriting and the Gospels. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 41, pp. 58-69. (doi: 10.1177/0142064X18788977)

Birch, J. (2018) A History of Biblical Interpretation. III. The Enlightenment through the Nineteenth Century, Alan J. Hauser & Duane F. Watson, eds.: Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2017, 978-0-8028-4275-6, $60.00, xii + 428 hb. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 40, pp. 148. (doi: 10.1177/0142064X18777156)

Schmid, J. (2018) Studies in the History of the Greek Text of the Apocalypse: the Ancient Stems.

(2018) The Moving Text: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on David Brown and the Bible.

Allen, G. V. (2018) Liv Ingeborg Lied and Hugo Lundhaug, eds. Snapshots of Evolving Traditions: Jewish and Christian Manuscript Culture, Textual Fluidity, and New Philology. TU 175. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. xviii + 366 pages. Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies,

Birch, J. C.P. (2018) Reimarus and the religious Enlightenment: his apologetic project. Expository Times, 129, pp. 245-253. (doi: 10.1177/0014524617744991)

Allen, G. (2018) Eschatology, migration, and social identity in the late Second Temple period. Kohlhammer

Allen, G. (2018) Text and tradition: David Brown and New Testament textual criticism. SCM Press

Allen, G. V. (2018) ‘There is No Glory and No Money in the Work’: H. C. Hoskier and New Testament Textual Criticism. TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, 23, pp. 1-19.