Peter J. Williams

Bible & ancient languages. Principal @Tyndale_House Cambridge. Tweets personal.

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

New INDEX of my significant threads & tweets:

BIBLE PASSAGES
Genesis 1-3 (coherence of) https://t.co/X80B00Wqki

Genesis 2-3 (careful composition) https://t.co/vMKTCtOH0O

Genesis 4:9-24 (bigamy) https://t.co/vGv8fpTWPc

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

[Based on Genesis 4:19-24]

The Bible’s first bigamist was Lamech.

He had an excessive attachment to the number 2.

2 wives: Adah & Zillah, who had to listen to poetic lines doubled through parallelism.

Adah & Zillah each had 2 children.

[James Eglinton @DrJamesEglinton]

🧵 The social media narrative about New College is now a bit out of control. Things to know:

1) Our school is growing, just admitted our biggest ever student intake (making us the largest school in the UK in our field), and is an important part of the UoE.

[Tyndale House, Cambridge @Tyndale_House]

You have until midnight tonight to use code EarlyBird26 and get 15% off your tickets for our World of the Bible conference.

📅 Saturday 24 October, 9:30-13:00 
📍Christ Church, Newmarket Road, Cambridge & Online
🎟️ https://t.co/dE15GNnobX

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

So many electronic resources to study the Hebrew text of the Bible.

[Joshua Alfaro @alfarojoshua3]

🧵New digital resources for Masoretic studies: a megathread. We're living in a golden age of digital tools for the study of the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible. This thread compiles recent resources, several of which have launched just this year.

[Harry Spillane @SpillaneHarry]

OUT NOW - Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible

Pictured here @EmmaCambridge beneath the Tyndale window, and with the @Newnham_College table and pink velvet chaise longue that enabled its writing

https://t.co/pkKhTnsw7E

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

The peer review system already lacks strong incentives for reviewers to be thorough. AI submissions exacerbate that so that, even if we imagine that some such submissions are of high quality, the pressure on the peer review system by additional AI-generated volume has to mean less peer review per paper with a negative impact on overall publication quality. Therefore use of AI in submissions must be limited sufficiently to motivate human peer reviewers to remain thorough.

AI papers in primarily AI journals peer reviewed by AI is fine.

Humans and AI are also not sufficiently ‘peers’ to review each others’ works comprehensively.

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

@SlowToWrite You are an inspiring model of graciousness.

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

@TDieppe Indeed.

[Tyndale House, Cambridge @Tyndale_House]

Over the next few weeks we are looking at words that Tyndale is widely credited with coining. Up this week: lovingkindness

Why not visit our website to find more resources on William Tyndale and read the special edition of our magazine.

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

@Samuelaran @Tyndale_House @DJngKnd @FaustoLiriano @MoisesPrezPadr1 @ian_t_atkinson @ElisabetCalas @JoALandeta Soon from @crossway

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

The @Tyndale_House Greek New Testament Readers’ Edition is now available in Spanish.

@DJngKnd @FaustoLiriano @MoisesPrezPadr1 @ian_t_atkinson @ElisabetCalas @JoALandeta

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

Official video here. Main material begins at 3:38.
https://t.co/d6vIPuerBw

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

NEW: Jehovah’s Witnesses have just officially changed their position on accepting blood products in medical care.

It’s now a matter of individual conscience. It’s also a bit confusing as they say that:

“the decision to accept red cells, white cells, plasma or platelets from another person’s blood is a matter of personal conscience”

But they still reject whole blood transfusions.

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

@JennMGreenberg Is that picture meant to be of Jadis?

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

@ianmiles @LoisMcLatch Started my kids on Lewis before 4th birthday.

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

@GeorgyKantor @TDieppe I wonder whether Mullaly might not have anticipated that Ashrafi’s wife would be fully covered up, but it’s (almost) too late when your honoured guests arrive and the camera is there. Really disastrous photo.

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

For any who hadn’t noticed, a growing Presbyterian seminary has recently moved to central Oxford.

[Westminster Seminary UK @WSeminaryUK]

Since 2020, our School of Theology has welcomed people from all around the world to grow in their knowledge and love of God.

We are delighted that Season Six will open on 10th October 2026 at Union House, St Michael’s Street!

[Tyndale House, Cambridge @Tyndale_House]

Use code EarlyBird26 to get 15% off your tickets for the World of the Bible conference.

📅 Saturday 24 October, 9:30-13:00
📍Christ Church, Newmarket Road, Cambridge & Online
🎟️ https://t.co/dE15GNnobX

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

@DavyEllison @RoomForNuance_ I got it from Bobb Biehl (https://t.co/KmlAPA6WT4).

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

@ReligionProf Apparently ‘ludicrous’ is ad hominem, but ‘childish’ isn’t.