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I did want to pursue a career in academia, but after my PhD I was getting nowhere with job applications and finding post doc opportunities. I got very discouraged, and when another opportunity came along, I was more than ready to forget academia and throw myself into it wholeheartedly. As often...

Hello. We'll have to disagree on this one. I think it's far more likely that Theodore was using an independent Papian source than that he combined Papian terminology into Eusebius's account, and that he combined this with the tradition of the elders/bishops of Ephesus coming to John and...

He argues that both the Evangelist and the Elder discuss the order of the Gospels. Papian tradition says that the three gospels were brought to John, who discussed their omissions etc (their taxis), Papian quotes relate that the Elder discussed the taxis of Matthew and Mark. It sounds reasonable...

Yes, no problem, it's D. Furlong, "Theodore of Mopsuestia: New evidence for the proposed Papian fragment in Hist. Eccl. 3.24.5–13,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament, December 2016.

Thanks. Did you see the article on the proposed fragment of Papias in Theodore of Mopsuestia by D. Furlong that addresses those points? It's available online but I can't link.

Why don't you think it might have been John the Elder?