Timothy B. Sailors

Timothy B. Sailors specializes in the academic study of ancient Christianity and its literature. His scholarly work has focused on topics such as the New Testament, textual criticism, the Apostolic Fathers, early Christian apocrypha, the Diatessaron, patristics, early Christian apologists, and manuscript studies.

He has been trained particularly in the classical languages necessary for the study of such texts: Greek, Latin, Coptic, Syriac, Ethiopic, Armenian, Georgian, Arabic, Old Church Slavonic, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, and Old Nubian.

Sailors has most recently received a grant from the Sarah J. Clackson Coptic Fund through the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, to conduct manuscript research at the Bodleian Library; been appointed a U.S. State Department–funded Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Fellow at the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem, in order to consult and utilize manuscript collections in the Near East; and been named a Swenson Family Fellow in Eastern Christian Manuscript Studies at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) in Collegeville, Minnesota.