Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. The programme for Winter Semester is ready. Take a look! More on the seminar's website...

Very honored to have been invited by @relicsclerics.bsky.social to present at the Warsaw Late Antique Seminar, and to be included in this incredible roster. Join us!

CRAC is getting five! And is going to celebrate this anniversary with a conference The Shady Trade of Hermes: Theft, Thieves and Thievery in the Ancient World to be held on 25-27 September 2025 at the University of Warsaw. If you happen to be in town, do join us! Programme: bit.ly/42JturY

I have been informed by the good folks at @gorgiaspress.bsky.social that my translation of the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch (aka 2 Baruch) is officially in print, though I don't have a hard copy yet. Here's a link: www.gorgiaspress.com/maccabees-3-...

We are thrilled to announce that beginning with our winter issue in January 2026, the Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully open access, including future issues and our whole 136-year back catalog! Learn more about this exciting change on the blog: katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

and the podcast is up! sorry I'm in such dim light it's, uh, the mystery of biblical conspiracy surrounding me www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9o1...

(1/5) It's peer review week! #PRW2025 Thank you to those who have reviewed for JQR over the years. We would not be here without you. Check out this thread for insights and reflections from the JQR editors on the peer review process, including advice for authors and reviewers. 🧵

New issue of Journal of Late Antiquity Vol. 18, No. (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55589 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @jmrcolvin.bsky.social

With the caveat that I've been the editor for all of three minutes, here's a thread about the goings on at the Journal of Early Christian Studies---far rosier, for reasons that I think have to do with size

Excited to announce my book that is forthcoming in January. I’m looking forward to sharing more soon. Let me know if your faculty, students, or community would be interested in a talk or class. Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press. Description at: bit.ly/PerrySlavery

It's time to tell you to pre-order this! $34.95 for a handy lil' paperback! www.ucpress.edu/books/things...

If you're itching to read about "Apocalyptic" in the most arcane senses of that term, perhaps to distract you from much else apocalyptic in our times, this is the series for you! humanhistoriesofkn.substack.com/p/away-from-...

Why do Jews cover their heads? In JQR 115.3, @simchagross.bsky.social looks at norms of Jewish male head covering as a proxy for cultural assimilation and difference in rabbinic Rome and Sasania. Learn more on the blog and read his essay FREE thru September 5! katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

JQR 115.3 is here! We've got: -Early Jewish head coverings -The Talmud & the Aramaic incantation bowls -Israel Naraja -The Palestinian vocalization signs -Yosef Yerushalmi & Walter Benjamin -James Baldwin & Louis Finkelstein Read the TOC +2 free essays!👇 katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

Publication day for a book that Matthew and I spent six years on, anguished over, fought for, rewrote twice, and nearly abandoned. I hope it proves useful in continuing important conversations about the ancient world and about the societies we choose to build today. www.ucpress.edu/books/ancien...

Leave it to @simchagross.bsky.social to break new ground in the typography of academic journals. Now that we can evidently us emojis, I’m going to save thousands of words with 😒

Space... The Final Frontier... and coincidentaly the main subject of my essay that just came out in the Studies in Late Antiquity. online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/3

New issue of Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 9, No. 3 (2025) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/3 @drewjakeprof.bsky.social @simchagross.bsky.social @annetteyreed.bsky.social @akjp89.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social The Ways that Never Parted: A Roundtable & more

the new issues of Studies in Late Antiquity has our SBL forum on the 20th anniversary of THE WAYS THAT NEVER PARTED (co-ed @annetteyreed.bsky.social): ft. me, @simchagross.bsky.social, Heidi Wendt, and Jae Han's intro! online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/3

Newest issue of JQR filled with bangers 🔥🔥🔥https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55233

FREE TO READ = @simchagross.bsky.social “From Togas to Turbans” muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

The hard copy is printed on luxurious paper (70# Sundance Linen in Natural) and incl. a cover with a snake and pearl, plus the dust jacket you see ⬇️. Available here and elsewhere:

My new article "From Togas to Turbans: Jewish Male Head Coverings between the Roman and Sasanian Worlds" was just published by the Jewish Quarterly Review. It is available for free download here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...!

My article "Jewish Interconnectivity and Diasporic Unrest under Trajan" is out in the Journal of Ancient Judaism! Check it out if you're interested in transregional relationships between Jews between North Africa & West Asia. DM if you don't have institutional access! brill.com/view/journal...

So excited that my book has a cover. Michigan's design people have outdone themselves in their styling of Mr. Murder Mittens (a massive Roman temple key from Switzerland). Full details here (the e-version will be open access come the publication date): press.umich.edu/Books/S/Stea...

the David Brakke Festschrift! available now! www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

Forgot to mention this yesterday, but this new volume--the Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy, edited by Richard Flower--has now officially been published and should be available through Cambridge Core for those who have access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

This is me, your friend and colleague @andytobo.bsky.social

My brother @abrahamgross.bsky.social, combatting the imposition of AI to surveil and discipline journalists into "non-biased coverage," as determined by AI, part of a larger suite of tasks outsourced to AI: www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/law3...

late antiquity nerds! @vox-magica.bsky.social's awesome new Element is scheduled to drop *this week* so bookmark now so you can get your ~free~ download when it hits! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Not an auspicious moment for this, but the paperback version of my book – about a very different chapter in the history of Jews and Iran - is now available & the discount code valid until the end of June I hope that engaging the past frees us to imagine more hopeful futures.

The city is often a mirror of our scholarly approaches. Therefore, very excited to see this out—my overview of the recent views of late antique and early medieval urban worlds and a sketch of new methodologies for the city in the first millennium. In open access: books.openedition.org/cvz/54316

New issue of Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 33, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55015 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Congratulations to James Redfield on the publication of his new book! It is available here, and use the discount code IM2025 until the end of the month! cart.sbl-site.org/books/140375P

I will be giving a talk at Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity’s “After Rome & Further East Seminar” series this coming Thursday 12 June at 17:00. Lecture room 5 at New College. It’s titled “The Sasanian Grand Strategy: State, Economy, & War in the Sixth & Seventh Century West Asia.”

my review of @letteney.bsky.social's CHRISTIANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN LATE ANTIQUITY is out in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History (short version: it's good!) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Awesome way to start the day! My article on nonhumans (animals and demons) in an early Christian text has been published in the Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha! It’s open access, so free for all to read! Get it here: doi.org/10.1177/0951...

✨proofs day✨ for "Jewish Interconnectivity and Diasporic Unrest under Trajan" in the Journal of Ancient Judaism

A recording of this event with Rahim is now up on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CiE...

Among the fascinating discoveries from Masada was what seems to be Herod's stash of garum Acc. to chemical analysis, it was made of anchovies & herring, two kosher fish This resonates with Pliny (NH 31.95) who says kosher garum existed, though he flubs the details www.academia.edu/17375034/Fis...

Looking forward to this event at the University of Gent organised by brilliant graduate students on Boundaries in Late Antiquity. Alongside the estimable Aaron Butts, I will be delivering one of the keynote lectures. My talk is called “Globalising the Sasanians”. I think the title says it all!

Join us tonight for Cate Bonesho's talk!

Keep an eye out for "Jewish Interconnectivity and Diasporic Unrest under Trajan: Stereotypes and Uneasy Histories" in the Journal of Ancient Judaism later this year. Shout out to @simchagross.bsky.social, whose incredible "Hopeful Rebels and Anxious Romans" article I'm adding a mere footnote to

I wrote up a short preview of the book for Ancient Jew Review.

It's officially publication day! Mirah is helping me promote the book since she has served as editorial assistant from birth. If you plan to acquire a copy, use code P327 for 30% off princetonupress.bsky.social. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Thrilled that my friend @jakenabel.bsky.social's brilliant book is now out! A free ebook version is generously available for download, and the paperback version is very affordable. Get your copy! luminosoa.org/site/books/m...

Ever wonder about the strange Aramaic invitation at the beginning of the Passover Haggadah? Check out my piece in last year's issue of @jewishreviewbooks.bsky.social Many thanks to @ssecunda.bsky.social for his friendship and editorial wizardry! jewishreviewofbooks.com/jewish-histo...

JNES has just published my article about the (potential) use of Hebrew among the Judeans of Yeb/Elephantine. It has a little bit of everything: Contact/sociolinguistics, precative perfects, and lengthy footnotes on škn! Here’s a link to access for free: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...