now up on my knowledge commons page!
works.hcommons.org/records/5bkw...
Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD
let me know if you want a copy!
Soon after Constantin Tischendorf (1815–74) publicized his "discovery" of the Codex Sinaiticus, notorious manuscript broker (and forger) Konstantinos Simonides stunned elite literary circles by announcing that Simonides himself had produced this biblical codex in his youth as a gift for the Russian tsar. Simonides claimed that his "Codex Simonideios" was illicitly being passed off as an ancient biblical codex after being mutilated and disfigured. I argue that this brief but explosive debate about manuscripts, forgeries, and "find" narratives produces a biblical text liable to revision and emendation, due to new discoveries or new methods, and so vulnerable to mischievous actors manipulating the possibilities of new discoveries and methods. The iterative process of attack and defense on display in this codicological debate has remained, in various guises, from collegial disagreement to scorched earth campaigns, an ideological component of critical biblical studies.
Philological Encounters Vol. 11 Nos. 1-2: Special Issue: edited by J. Gregory Given and Daniel Picus (2026) brill.com/view/journal... The Critical Edition in the Infrastructure of Philology @greggiven.bsky.social @drewjakeprof.bsky.social @yitzl.bsky.social @danielpicus.bsky.social
Philological Encounters Vol. 11 Nos. 1-2: Special Issue: edited by J. Gregory Given and Daniel Picus (2026) brill.com/view/journal... The Critical Edition in the Infrastructure of Philology @greggiven.bsky.social @drewjakeprof.bsky.social @yitzl.bsky.social @danielpicus.bsky.social
Annette Yoshiko Reed
Annette Yoshiko Reed
Annette Yoshiko Reed
oh look it's another thing! this is my paper for Westar published in their house journal FORUM.
again happy to share a copy (although it will also be up on my Knowledge Commons page when I get a chance!)
Andrew Jacobs (he/him)
Yale Classics Library
Yale Classics Library
Let's goooooooo 📕
A typology quiz for the years 1500 to 1789. Thirty questions, thirty types—humanist, Puritan, philosophe, magus, salonnière, mercenary. Which were you?