Max Lee ☕️

The Paul W Brandel Prof of NT at @NPTSem, Author &editor with @MohrSiebeck @WipfandStock @BakerAcademic, former chair #IBRAABI, A pastor in scholar's clothing

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

Grateful for my time with the Southeast Conference Ministerial Association of the @Cov_Church. I gave a 4 message series at the pastors retreat on Growing Stronger Together. Coming back to Chicago exhausted and blessed 🙌🏽 @NPTSem

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

Behind on getting and reading this but I will be picking this up soon

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

Now onto what may be the most important Latin text of our present millennium - even if for reasons not clearly explained it can only be read in the vernacular before the official Latin version eventually appears...

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

@ChristophHeilig Happy to do this next chance I get.

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

Thank you for making the your book publicly accessible Christoph! As one who took Ron Langacker’s doctoral seminar on Cognitive Semantics at UCSD, I’m esp interested in your use of construal and prominence for NT exegesis. Bravo! 🙌🏽

[Christoph Heilig @ChristophHeilig]

My new (and best) book is published!

Download and read it for free here:

https://t.co/LqjIrWmbKZ

@mohr_religion

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

Well, to be fair, the UBS6 at 1:15 lists a variant omitted by UBS5. I’ll have to take a look at it more closely to see why this was included and past variants in UBS5 were omitted. So the changes are not as flatly “just less info” as I had first suspected

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

It seems like the UBS6 “streamlines” the apparatus with less variants but cuts out too much compared to the UBS5? The UBS editions already have less variants listed than NA. UBS5 struck a better balance IMHO. Wondering if trimming the apparatus for UBS6 has gone too far 🤔💭

[Seth M. Ehorn @smehorn]

Visualizing the evolution of the UBS textual apparatus of the Greek New Testament in the last four editions. A case study in Acts 1. Do with this information what you will.

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

@brookins_tim Thanks Tim! I’m discovering all these changes inductively as I work through it

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

@DanielMGurtner Yes I did. Working through it as well. I agree it’s well done!

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

I'm not thrilled about the changes to the critical apparatus for UBS6 from UBS5. It's a downgrade IMHO. The major uncials Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Alexandrinus use numbers rather than the special symbols. They changed the Latin manuscript abbrev (why?). Less info. Getting grumpy 😤

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

@DanielMGurtner The apparatus from UBS5 and its conventions seemed just fine. I just don’t see a real need to change it. I’m admittedly giving my gut reaction so far. May be UBS6 will grow me over time. Right now I don’t see the changes as necessary. I’m willing to have my mind changed 2/2

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

@DanielMGurtner I’m putting on my educator’s hat on this one. Using Aleph for Sinaiticus, for example, just made it easier for students to learn the major majuscules. I think it’s helpful to see where the lectionary tradition is most attested for a particular variant. Phil 1:11 omits this. 1/2

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

It is finished. Just presented in 26 min a paper that was 23 pages single spaced. Appreciate’s Grant Macaskill’s response on how to situate Paul beyond his Roman context. Classicist giant Ilaria Ramelli and Philo expert Maren Niehoff also gave helpful feedback. Glad to be done 🙌🏽

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

Here are #SNTS2026 in Durham, UK. I’m reading a paper on the moral logic of the Stoics +the Apostle Paul for the Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity and The Presence of Rome in Early Christian Text joint session. Glad to make it here after horrendous 11 hour wait in Dublin 🙌🏽

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

Here are #SNTS2026 in Durham, UK. I’m reading a paper on the moral logic of the Stoics +the Apostle Paul for the Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity and The Presence of Rome in Early Christian Text joint session. Glad to make it here after horrendous 11 hour wait in Dublin 🙌🏽

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

@zacharoni22 has an interview up with The Odyssey’s Himesh Patel on the theme of ancient hospitality and other interesting tidbits on how the actors and crew drew from the Iliad and other sources to reconstruct on screen Homer’s great epic. Check it in his 🧵 out below ↙️

[Zachary Lee @zacharoni22]

“How do we treat strangers? And what happens if we break that law? What does that do to our souls?”

An honor to speak w/ Himesh Patel abt THE ODYSSEY, filming *that 🐷 sequence, how the film is a story of being a good guest, & the shades of TENET & INCEPTION in this story. ⬇️

[Cultivated Soul @CultivatedBooks]

There are more than 60 English translations
of The Odyssey.

So which one should you read?

Here’s how six major translations differ.

1. Robert Fagles
Reads like a novel. A common classroom choice.

2. Richmond Lattimore
The scholar's translation. Closest to the Greek.

3. Robert Fitzgerald
The most literary. Formal, musical, and long a
standard in American classrooms.

4. Stanley Lombardo
Closer to how the poem would be read aloud.
Popular for performance and teaching.

5. Emily Wilson
Plain and direct. Written in iambic pentameter.

6. Alexander Pope
The great historical translation. Written in heroic couplets, ornate, elevated, and far less literal
than the others.

Which translation would you choose?

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

Textual criticism is not my strength so I appreciate the pro-tip here ↙️

[Seth M. Ehorn @smehorn]

At @EdinburghUni, I learned much about manuscripts from Larry Hurtado, Paul Foster, and Tim Lim. That experience has shaped my teaching/scholarship. For a book on the topic, try Working with Manuscripts. It overviews the why/how and gives practical advice for finding/using mss.

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

Not going to lie. Looking forward to seeing this on the biggest screen I can 🗡️🏛️🏺🌊

[The Tonight Show @FallonTonight]

The cast of The Odyssey recaps the story in exactly one minute! @odysseymovie #FallonTonight #TheOdyssey

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

Thanks for the shout out! This was published back in 2012 and I’m still very happy with its interpretative work this day. It’s Revelation in a nutshell and my students still read sections of it for class today

[MICHAEL LEE WOMACK @WomackPoetry26]

Commentary on Revelation: From The Baker Illustrated Bible Commentary by @ProfMaxLee

Kindle: $2.99

purchase link: https://t.co/KQk8HfEEvT

@ReadBakerBooks

[Max Lee ☕️ @ProfMaxLee]

@brookins_tim 🤣Tossed many a cover myself.
Know the feeling

[Zachary Lee @zacharoni22]

1 thing I loved abt the film: Elizabeth Marvel’s & Eve Hewson’s performances, the ways the film offers a portrait of a faith community that does not demonize doubt but embraces it as a part of what it means to be in this world. Words at @NCRonline: