Peter Malik

New Testament. Manuscripts. Philology. Zionism. PhD
@Peterhouse_Cam. Opinions my own. RP ≠ endorsement. ⲛ̄ⲧⲟϥ/ⲙ̄ⲙⲟϥ.

[Peter Malik @petrosmalik]

I’m trying to recreate my Textual Criticism list, which you all are very welcome to follow!
https://t.co/UpHA96Wzas

[Peter Malik @petrosmalik]

Remember the time when Google Books were a thing? Never really liked them, but they proved useful to many who lacked access to a proper research library.

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

Google Books is becoming a desert. Its regress is real: the knowledge we were assured was both safely stored and freely available, which led libraries and schools to get rid of their books, has retreated into the shadows. The internet of 2026 knows less than the internet of 2010.

[Peter Malik @petrosmalik]

@AntigoneJournal I was never a fan of Google Books but when not in the vicinity of a research library the model did have some utility. Print books all the way for me, plus a PDF repository in my own storage to draw on.

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

My defence against this decline has been one simple policy: buy the books you want and take care and control of that which neither libraries nor digital corporations truly love.

[Peter Malik @petrosmalik]

One of the many reasons why I love and believe in what @Tyndale_House are doing. And come the apocalypse will—hopefully later rather than sooner, but it's almost inevitable, given where things are headed.

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

@AntigoneJournal At @Tyndale_House we’re not letting up at all on acquiring physical copies, including journals. Of course, we acquire electronic resources too, but are planning for the apocalypse when the publishers go broke, the data storage facilities get hacked and the power stations go down.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Insisting the late Cambridge University professor Jason Arday was not a fabulist “is an emotional position rather than a rational one,” @helenlewis argues, “and its very indefensibility makes it a greater demonstration of tribal loyalty”: https://t.co/4LJnkX4qcv

[Peter Malik @petrosmalik]

Wren Library, Trinity College. One of my favourite places in town.

[Peter Malik @petrosmalik]

Go study at Oxford if you must (still don’t), but get your books at @theUL.

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

Today we wrote dedications on the steel frame of Cambridge’s most exciting new building, the UK’s largest library of the Bible. These will be invisible in the completed building. @tyndale_house

[Peter Malik @petrosmalik]

James Carleton Paget is one of the great Cambridge scholars of our generation. If you don't follow his work, do yourself a favour and learn from his careful scholarship. Few people understand the history of NT and Christian origins scholarship as well as he does.

[Peter Malik @petrosmalik]

Another bonus point for @CamEdFac! Can anything go right in this department? There was a time when Cam people used to be scrutinised for every comma in their writing, including (and especially) the students. Our teachers were our role models (mine still are). O tempora, o mores!

[The Spectator @spectator]

Cambridge University's education faculty – former home of Jason Arday – has appointed as assistant research professor who wrote that Muslims should study engineering and computers 'to produce advanced weaponry for Jihad in order that the deen [Islam] may dominate over all other deens.'.

Two weeks ago we covered one chapter Ahmed wrote in a Hizb pamphlet – published in 2002, and republished in 2017 (Ahmed was not involved in the republication) – where she attacked ‘western education’ as a ‘threat’ to Muslims, condemned democracy and integration, and criticised British schools for teaching pupils that child marriage is wrong.

However, the same pamphlet includes a second, even more radical chapter, co-written by Ahmed and another senior Hizb activist, Nazreen Nawaz, head of its women’s section.

This describes Hizb’s plan to create a fully Islamic education system as part of the Islamic dictatorship, the Khilafah, which is its core goal. As the chapter puts it: ‘nothing will be contained within the curriculum that contradicts with Islam, such as the teaching of the ideas of freedom, nationalism, democracy or evolution in a positive light’.

‘Nor can there be any schools established on any other religion, sect or race… Even the non-Muslims need to be educated under the educational curriculum of Islam… by pushing them to think about the correct belief in life.’

✍️ Andrew Gilligan

Article | https://t.co/qXmQuMzTbM | @mragilligan

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

Did Romans think the earth was flat? Did the warrior women Amazons really exist? Two questions that Jo Quinn and I will be chewing over on 6 Sept at the Southbank centre in London. Come and join in: https://t.co/StK7DGFAdU

[Peter Malik @petrosmalik]

Sometimes we treat the history of research as a neccessary appendage to our articles or books—I for one am def. guilty of that. As it is, tracing the history of ideas and their developments can prove very rewarding. My Peterhouse tutor, James Carleton Paget, is a case in point.

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

Important book forthcoming on the *business* aspects of early English Bible production, by an author who really knows the sources.

[Peter Malik @petrosmalik]

@fionagoddarduk Deport the criminal and let him try doing the same in his homeland.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Congratulations to Ukraine on its Independence Day! 🇺🇦 Now more than ever, Ukraine is teaching the world the meaning of independence and how and why it must be fought for. A great shame that it is still fighting alone against Russia and its axis allies.

[Peter Malik @petrosmalik]

@Alfredovich65 A side point: how is scholarship antithetical to apologetics?

[Peter Malik @petrosmalik]

@sccarlson Much better to over- than under-cite.

[Peter Malik @petrosmalik]

@TheAtlantic @gcaw Agreed. If this continues to spiral down the way it appears to, it’ll become increasingly hard to blow the whistle. What we’re witnessing is a witch hunt in reverse.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“The focus on those who pointed out Arday’s shortcomings, rather than on Arday himself and those who abetted his rise, is a clear sign that lessons from this miserable episode remain unlearned,” @gcaw argues. https://t.co/HLRo53TKVG

[Peter Malik @petrosmalik]

‘Students, faculty members, and alumni are asking how seriously the school is taking human learning in the age of AI.’ And rightly so. https://t.co/iDW5zU74j4