This piece is just out, part of this volume: brill.com/display/title/70849 Happy to send a pdf out to anyone interested.

The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you. www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

In case you missed it, here is the recording of last week's paper! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR3X...

Yesterday paper's recording: Ángel Narro (València), •Thecla’s Increasing Authority from Early Christianity to Late Antiquity• genaut.univie.ac.at @angelnarro.bsky.social

We are looking for a one-year full-time Research Associate to work on Coptic manuscripts in Manchester as part of a wonderful project that connects mss with local communities. Requires strong skills in Coptic, English, & Arabic. Deadline 31/10. Please share! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Later today, at 4pm CET: Ángel Narro (València), "Thecla’s Increasing Authority from Early Christianity to Late Antiquity" genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671

The Annales recruiting an editor!

Heads-up, Biblical and Patristics scholars... Coming soon! Pre-order and save 20%. www.gorgiaspress.com/the-shepherd... #ShepherdofHermas #EarlyChristianity @danbatovici.bsky.social

Meet our team! Starting today: Maria S. Thomas The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at ‪@dekayra.bsky.social‬

The NASSCAL First Fridays Workshop 2025/2026 season begins Sept. 5 at 12:00 (EDT) with Julia Snyder's essay "Apostles Behaving Badly? Violence in the Acts of Philip." Contact us if you would like to participate.

Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

In case you missed it, here is the recording of last week's paper by Lewis Read (University of Vienna) shorturl.at/5oG6c

Can you see it? 😳 Bamberg State Library Msc.Patr.41; Commentary on the Canticum canticorum, St Bernard of Clairvaux; 12th century; Bamberg (Michelsberg Monastery?); f.69r

GenAut recording | Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski (London) •Why do Christians suffer? An answer from the Letter of Peter to Philip•

Dear colleagues, my new book on Mark's ending is now available for free (Open Access) thanks to the @snsf.ch Open Access grant number 235752. Please feel free to download and read. Enjoy! doi.org/10.1163/9789...

This is happening later today! It is still possible to register, just message @andyhilkens.bsky.social

What's the problem with using ChatGPT, you ask? Hostility towards education marketed as education: Such statements make it clear that expertise should/must be nothing more than rendering services.

The last short paper I visited at #SNTS2025 was by @clarissabreu.bsky.social, one of my fantastic colleagues at @univie.ac.at. She talked about mockery as we find it in ancient texts and guided us safely through texts of Philo and connected them to the markan passion narrative.

Want to know which professors were active at the University of Leuven (Louvain) between 1425-1797? Today our dataset with the names of the scholars was published on RDR, the data repository of @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social. #leuven1425

The next TeTra paper, on Armenian manuscript colophons, will be delivered next Thursday 14 August by Lewis Read (University of Vienna)! If you are interested in attending and are not yet on the mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link!

Psssst! Just dropping by with a periodic reminder that if you’ve written anything about Jesus (including historical, metacritical, and reception-focused work), we’d love for you to submit it to JSHJ! Refresh yourself on some of our current interests here: brill.com/view/journal...

Meet our postdocs: Andy Hilkens The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at @andyhilkens.bsky.social

My article on the Papias testimonium about Mark is now out, open access, in HTR! In this piece, I interrogate the multilayered tradition about its composition and explore why authorship was imposed on it against its writer’s intent to remain anonymous. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S001...

The book will be out in a month or two, but in the meantime here’s a blog post for @universitypress.cambridge.org about enslavement to God cambridgeblog.org/2025/07/why-...

Excited to announce that after a lot of editorial work our volume "Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE" is out now. @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social @illdottore.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/60683

Armenian horse medicine manuscripts paper coming up!

We have extended the call for applications to July 30th for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven Project “Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus.” The successful candidate would not necessarily need to move to Frankfurt to take up this position.

I’m at the airport en route to #EABSBL, so it feels like the perfect time to send a copy of my book, Reimaging the Magdalene, on a journey too! 💛 like and 🔁 RT and I’ll draw a winner on the feast of Mary Mag (22/07, heathens) Let’s see where it ends up… #Giveaway

Just a day left to enter! I’ll do the draw at 2pm (BST) tomorrow.

In case you missed it, here is the recording of the last paper! www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Al...

While #ISHPSSB2025 is underway, I'd just like to draw attention to an opportunity at University of Vienna @univie.ac.at for international researchers: senior & early-career fellowships at the new #Vienna Center for Advanced Studies #ViCAS vicas.univie.ac.at Deadline: Sept 1, 2025. Please apply!

Some thoughts on women retelling the gospel story. theconversation.com/cynthia-eriv...

Proofs time. Look out for a volume with Brill later this year on 1 Clement as an argumentative text.

Out in #OpenAccess! In the “Euthalian Tradition of the New Testament” Allen, @drkimfowler.bsky.social, Scieri and Venetskov document the Euthalian paratextual tradition to Acts, the Catholic Epistles, and the Pauline Epistles from the New Testament’s Greek manuscripts. 🔗brill.com/display/ti...#OpenAccess!

glitches resolved, download to your heart's content for the rest of July!!

Tomorrow!

The next paper will take place on Friday 18 July at 4PM: Bishara Ebeid (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) •Transposing Tradition: The West Syriac Reworking of an East Syriac Nicene Commentary• If you're not on the mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link.

Come study with us! Fully-funded Ph.D. scholarship opportunity to work on the Late Antique translation of texts. www.acu.edu.au/research-and...

The open access version is available here 🔓🪄:👇 academic.oup.com/book/59790 #MedievalSky

That a mouse?

Check out this opportunity!

Looking forward to this!

Pour des doctorants / docteurs en histoire médiévale ne préparant pas leur thèse en France, vous pouvez candidater à une bourse Robert de Sorbon du @labo-lamop.bsky.social À faire circuler ! Cc @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social

Exhibition of 15 Syriac manuscripts at KU Leuven on Thursday 11 September 2025 at 4 PM at the Maurits Sabbe Library in Leuven: "Treasures from the East: Syriac Manuscripts in the Collection of the Maurits Sabbe Library" Registration: bib.kuleuven.be/msb/over/nie...

Join us at #ViCAS - a new interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Vienna! 🏛️ Application for Senior #Fellowships and Early-Career Fellowships are now possible. 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 📅 Deadline for Application: 1st September 2025. Apply now: ⤵️ vicas.univie.ac.at #PhDSky #AcademicSky

Open-access PDF available here! The Pearlsong is the first in a new series of books (Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation – 4T), all with source language and parallel Eng. tr., all avail. in a high-quality hard copy and open-access PDF. Much more to come!

Our sister docschool @univie.ac.at is a blast! Explore Vienna's religious tapestry with the brand-new audio guide of the Vienna Doctoral School of Theology and Research on Religion 👇🏾👇🏼👇👇🏻 vdtr.univie.ac.at/en/the-vdtr-...

Held up at Stansted Security for FIFTEEN MINUTES by this suspicious object in my underseat bag. They swabbed nearly every page, especially where I had underlined that snakes are immoderate wine drinkers!

There is a new Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Vienna, offering both Senior and Early-Career 1-year fellowships for 2026/27. Deadline 1 Sept 2025. Might be interesting for someone out there. vicas.univie.ac.at/