Books and Articles
“Brice Jones’s New Testament Texts on Greek Amulets from Late Antiquity is thus an undeniably exacting and captivating study that successfully models how a particular class of noncontinuous manuscripts—amulets—can serve as witnesses for understanding the textual history of the Greek New Testament and contribute to its textual reconstruction. Social artifacts are effectively transformed into textual artifacts in this study with considerable yields. The investigation is a model for how such work should be undertaken in the future. The assembled database is also of clear, independent value, irrespective of the book’s conclusions. The material is, in substance, above reproach, and any concerns that emerge are a matter of circumstance.” – Prof. Juan Hernández, Review of Biblical Literature
"In an expensive series where all-too-often we see an excess of bland and indiscriminate theses on obscure topics, it is splendid to be able to commend another volume that lifts it from the expected troughs. Jones’ work is familiar to many of us, thanks to his blog and other writings; his is a name we can expect to see regularly in the limelight." Prof. J.K. Elliott, Novum Testamentum
“This is a fascinating and carefully conducted study of one class of non-continuous Greek New Testament texts, the amulets ... This volume will serve as an important reference work for those interested in early Christian amulets in their own right, but more widely it opens up larger discussions about the use of non-continuous texts for understanding the transmission of the early text of the New Testament, and for contributing more evidence concerning how the New Testament text was used by some early Christian believers.” – Dr. Paul Foster, The Expository Times
“Jones has accumulated a valuable repository of information concerning the select amulets ... Such helpful collection of materials, conveniently translated into English, would make this book useful for scholars of early Christianity-not to mention Jones's careful analyses and interesting tangential discussions along the way.” – Dr. Peter Malik, Journal of Theological Studies
"In an expensive series where all-too-often we see an excess of bland and indiscriminate theses on obscure topics, it is splendid to be able to commend another volume that lifts it from the expected troughs. Jones’ work is familiar to many of us, thanks to his blog and other writings; his is a name we can expect to see regularly in the limelight." Prof. J.K. Elliott, Novum Testamentum
“This is a fascinating and carefully conducted study of one class of non-continuous Greek New Testament texts, the amulets ... This volume will serve as an important reference work for those interested in early Christian amulets in their own right, but more widely it opens up larger discussions about the use of non-continuous texts for understanding the transmission of the early text of the New Testament, and for contributing more evidence concerning how the New Testament text was used by some early Christian believers.” – Dr. Paul Foster, The Expository Times
“Jones has accumulated a valuable repository of information concerning the select amulets ... Such helpful collection of materials, conveniently translated into English, would make this book useful for scholars of early Christianity-not to mention Jones's careful analyses and interesting tangential discussions along the way.” – Dr. Peter Malik, Journal of Theological Studies
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Peer-Reviewed Articles
- (with Ross Ponder) “A New Christian Text concerning the Lord Driving out Passions," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 55 (2018): 13-20.”
- “A Greek Papyrus Fragment with a Citation of Matt. 1:20,” Journal of Biblical Literature 137.1 (2018): 169-174.
- “Three Unpublished von Scherling Texts in the McGill University Library,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 53 (2016): 17-24.
- “Scribes Avoiding Imperfections in Their Writing Materials,” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 61.2 (2015): 371-383.
- "Papontos and the Hermaion Amphodon of Oxyrhynchus," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 52 (2015): 39-42.
- "Letter from Harpalos and Sarapion(?)," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 51 (2014): 41-45.
- "Three New Coptic Papyrus Fragments of 2 Timothy and Titus (P.Mich. inv. 3535b)," Journal of Biblical Literature 133.2 (2014): 389-397.
- “A New Sahidic Fragment of the Gospel of Luke from the Michigan Collection,” Novum Testamentum 56.2 (2014): 198-204.
- “A Coptic Fragment of the Gospel of John with Hermeneiai (P.CtYBR inv. 4641)," New Testament Studies 60.2 (April 2014): 202-214.
- “Two Sahidic Fragments of John 13:29-14:2: Garrett Coptic MS 6,” Journal of Coptic Studies 15 (2013): 277-282.
- “P.Mich. inv. 3521,” in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 49 (2012): 303-304.
- “Two Unidentified Christian Fragments in the Michigan Collection,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 186 (2013): 121-123.
- “A New Ptolemaic Papyrus from the Columbia University Collection,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 186 (2013): 247-250.
- (with Andrzej T. Mirończuk) “An Oxyrhynchus Fragment of Homer, Iliad 23 in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 186 (2013): 6-10.
- “A New Coptic Fragment of 2 Samuel 10:13-14, 17-18 (McGill MS NO Coptic 2),” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 184 (2013): 126-130.
- “What Is a τρυϲινον? A Fresh Look at P.Oxy. XIV 1674,” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 58.2 (2012): 269-272.
- “The Meaning of the Phrase ‘And the Witnesses Laid Down Their Cloaks’ in Acts 7:58,” Expository Times 123.3 (December 2011): 113-118.
- “The Bodmer ‘Miscellaneous’ Codex and the Crosby-Schøyen MS 193: A New Proposal,” Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism 8 (2011): 9-20.