My article (open access) on the apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans, canonicity, paratexts, and Latin manuscripts!

For those who have recently submitted work to the Journal of Biblical Literature, might you be willing to share your review timelines? I’d be grateful for a sense of others’ experience, either on this thread or by DM. #aarsbl #sblaar

Donald Trump told Texas Republicans to turn back a four-term incumbent senator and to vote for a man who is basically a walking Thomas Nast illustration of corruption and the cult members said, yes sir, right away, sir.

I introduced six Articles of Impeachment against Chief Justice John Roberts for compromising the credibility of the Supreme Court. See my release below. cohen.house.gov/media-center...

Here are my four Gorgias Press books — two on Jacob of Serug, a martyrdom, and a Greek-Syriac lexical index to the De Mundo — if you need to add anything to your purchase during the sale:

Apparently I graduated with my PhD 10 years ago today. Pictured here with my doctoral advisor, Kathleen McVey.

Rep. Thomas Massie has conceded. Republican voters have rejected the member of their own party most responsible for forcing the vote to release the Epstein files. All because Trump, a man named in the Epstein files thousands of times, didn't want them released. That says a lot. None of it good.

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It’s time to start working through some proofs! This one has been a long time coming. @philipforness.bsky.social

A colleague described this piece as bracing, and I can’t think of a better word for it. What surprised me this year, among other things, is how angry and baffled some students were that I still expected them to learn things. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...

Hamilton in Detroit!

Trump brought the NVIDIA CEO on his trip to China to lobby Xi Jinping to buy advanced AI chips, even though it would create a U.S. national security threat. It turns out Trump also bought millions in NVIDIA's stock. The President's corruption is a national security disaster.

The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

I finished this last night, and it was such a fun read. I've liked @felicia.day ever since Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog, so it was really cool to discover her recent interest in classics and ancient mythology. Check it out! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Lo...

I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

Speaking of these 6 languages in particular...I've been informed that Eerdmans will be publishing a paperback version of Eastern Christianity: A Reader. Hopefully this makes it more affordable and accessible as a textbook option, and it looks like it might be available for the fall semester!

Greek, Latin, Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, Ge'ez

Syriaca.org is hosting it's third annual summer workshop on digital humanities for Syriac Studies. If you are interested in learning DH skills, our data model, and how you can be a part of the work we're doing, please consider applying for the workshop.

Why read The Pearlsong? •new Eng. tr. of 1 Syriac & 2 Greek texts •at least 13 scripts & 20 languages •a dragon-dosed narcotic magic spell •more about snakes/dragons/serpents •commentary light on allegory and heavy on story •the Guardian of Forever (Star Trek TOS) 1/2

congrats to @nporter.bsky.social on his @acls1919.bsky.social Dissertation/Innovation fellowship! www.acls.org/fellow-grant...

Lupita Nyong’o Plays Both Helen of Troy and Her Sister, Clytemnestra, in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey www.ign.com/articles/chr...

HMML is hiring a "Cataloger, West African Manuscripts," a full-time, benefits-eligible, remote position. Details: https://bit.ly/4njwcgW The Cataloger will participate in HMML's effort to catalog Islamic manuscripts recently digitized in Mali. This is a one-year, grant-funded position. #LibraryJobs

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Voting in an overwhelming wave this fall is vital, but it's also important to understand that Republicans are no longer wedded to electoral outcomes or committed to liberal democracy. They have already begun using force to exercise power and alter democratic behavior. It's going to intensify. 🧵

The rules of redistricting are simple: Republicans are free to do whatever they want, and Democrats are also free to do whatever Republicans want.

Open Access Publication! My essay. "Canonizing Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans," won this year's DeGruyter-Brill Prize and, as of today, is available open access. I'm really proud of this one. You can download here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

ICYMI...some good news, for once! Thank you, @acls1919.bsky.social @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social for fighting for scholars, including the @medievalacademy.bsky.social members whose funding was unjustly cut off. More info here: www.historians.org/news/federal...

"In sum, every aspect of the termination process – the NEH DEI ratings, DOGE’s DEI-based ChatGPT filter, & the spreadsheet sorting grants by “DEI Rationale” – reflects a single, unconstitutional purpose: to drive a particular disfavored viewpoint from the marketplace of humanistic inquiry" (104)

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Judge says DOGE grant terminations are unlawful and 'troubling' - ABC News

I spend YEARS brainstorming and MONTHS outlining and that IS the work. Zero tolerance for this shit.

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Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 34, No. 2 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56813 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

We should teach history because it's interesting. That's it. That's my hot take.

Attn: ALL HIGHER ED ADMINISTRATORS

This is both evil and boring.

I just picked up this book about missionaries in c19th Siberia in a London bookshop for *£1.99*, absolute scenes 😱

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

Just saw this very interesting job opening for an Arabic specialist: a 3-year research position on the project "Women in Syriac Christianity, 1500-1800". What a great project! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

It's so disheartening watching this court carry out the explicit project of white supremacy so blatantly while gaslighting the public to say it's trying to stop discrimination. They're dismantling every major legacy of the civil rights movement. We need to reform this court.

John Roberts has been trying to kill Voting Rights Act since he was young lawyer in Reagan DOJ in early 1980s. That's most important context for today's Callais decision. Roberts Court has now issued 3 major decisions gutting VRA, turning law into dead letter www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Justice Kagan: "I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—'one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.'

Kagan is right. The Roberts Court has demolished the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that ended Jim Crow restrictions & restored democracy to the South. 1/

“Expand the court” is the minimum response necessary from any serious Dem presidential candidate in 2028.

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Sharing a screenshot of an AI response to a research question of any kind is so embarrassing. Like you really want to admit right there up front that your source is .... typing your question into a publicly available search bar famous for its inaccuracies?

Think of all the terrible writing that has come before, you almost literally cannot be worse without trying!

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House Democrats will introduce five articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of war crimes in connection with the Iran war, abuse of power and mishandling of the Department of Defense (DOD).

*swivels a chair around and sits on it backward to connect with the kids* I think you should stop worrying about LOOKsmaxxing and start worrying about BOOKsmaxxing