Great talk and great conversation yesterday. In case you missed it, here is the recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kH9...

Join us Friday for the November 2025 First Friday workshop with Ivan Miroshnikov (University of Helsinki). Register at the email in the image below for the pre-circulated paper and Zoom link.

🗣️ PLEASE SHARE 🗣️ I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator! spot.fund/dn8t744sc

The books are in!

CFP: “Shaping the Word: the Form and Use of Biblical Manuscripts in the Early Medieval West” at Durham University in July 2026. We are interested in a wide range of papers exploring ways in which scriptural texts (produced roughly c. 500-1000) were presented and used.

#Stellenangebot #FID Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d), 75% TV-L E 13, für den #Fachinformationsdienst #Religionswissenschaft gesucht. Das #RelBib Team freut sich über Bewerbungen bis 7. November 2025! Details zur Ausschreibung: uni-tuebingen.de/securedl/sdl...

📚 Great news for patristics scholars! The proceedings of the International Conference on Patristic Studies (Oxford, 2011 & 2015) are now available in Gold Open Access. That’s 42 volumes of cutting-edge research—now free to read on our website! 🔗 www.peeters-leuven.be/search_resul...

Spotted dead nettle flowering by the gate at Little St Mary’s, Cambridge. #WildflowerHour

Please reskeet: CFP is open for the North American Patristics Society meeting, May 21-23, 2026 in Chicago Submit abstracts either for the general call or to a pre-arranged theme, or you can submit a whole planned session! Deadline is Nov 19th, details at link: www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...

3 more weeks to apply for this... please continue to share widely.

Conference announcement/call for papers! You’ll note that there’s no theme beyond “new research on apocryphal Christian literature.” We truly just want to hear about whatever interests you most in apocryphal Christian literature right now. More info here: www.nasscal.com/meetings/

Announcing the launch of the open-access Journal of Christian Apocryphal Literature (JCAL). Sign up if you are interested in being a contributor or reviewer! journals.aperio.press/jcal/submiss...

Job opening: An academic in Exegesis of Biblical and Extra-Biblical Texts, UCLouvain jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...

Come work with some of my fantastic colleagues in @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! A full-time, four-year PhD vacancy in Latin Patristic Literature/Theology KU Leuven. Please spread the word! theo.kuleuven.be/apps/joboppo... @kuleuventheology.bsky.social

𝗢𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗡𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗻𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗶𝘅𝘁𝘆-𝗙𝗶𝘃𝗲 Edited by Lasse Løvlund Toft, Mattias Sommer Bostrup & René Falkenberg More info: bit.ly/4ndJvhB #Manichaeism #Medievalsky #EasternChristianity #ReligiousHistory #Medievalists #Religion

Organizing one's colleagues is service to the profession, of the highest order. Every bit as worthy a scholarly pursuit as teaching, advising, peer-review or committee work, and—yeah—even research. Pass it on.

🔔Save the Date: Der IxTheo wird 50! Aus diesem Anlass laden wir am 12./13. Februar 2026 zu einem Festakt sowie einer Tagung zum Thema "Digitale Kompetenzen und Künstliche Intelligenz in der theologischen Forschung und im Theologiestudium" nach Tübingen ein. Nähere Informationen folgen Ende Oktober.

At an emergency all-school meeting of UVa’s College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the following statement (drafted by the school‘s Committee on Academic Freedom) was approved with 97% in favor:

New issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 144, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55656 @sblpress.bsky.social @sblsite.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social

New issue of Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 33, No. 3 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55688 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

New issue of Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum = Journal of Ancient Christianity Vol. 29, No. 2 (2025) www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/... @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social

East of Byzantium is excited to welcome Nazénie Garibian as the first speaker in our 2025–2026 lecture series. Join us on November 4 for "Creating Christian Sacred Spaces: The Armenian Case (4th–7th Centuries)". 12:00 pm ET on Zoom. Register: eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-eve...

+++ Newsletter +++ Mit dem Herbst beginnt auch das Wintersemester 2025/26 – und die Altertumswissenschaften in Berlin und Brandenburg haben viel vor! Einen Überblick über Veranstaltungen und Neuigkeiten finden Sie wie immer in unserem Newsletter. www.berliner-antike-kolleg.org/services/new...

MUP and @thejohnrylands.bsky.social are thrilled to announce that Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is now fully #OpenAccess🔓 Throughout October, the Bulletin's Editorial Board are highlighting journal issues or articles of particular importance on the MUP blog.

Applications for the new Mary Jaharis Center ICBS Travel Grant to support graduate students in North America delivering a paper at the 25th International Congress of Byzantine Studies are due in 2 weeks, on October 14, 2025. More info: maryjahariscenter.org/grants/icbs-...

CFP: New Research on Apocryphal Christian Literature, North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature (NASSCAL) Conference, University of Virginia, May 1–2, 2026. Submissions due October 31, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/new-res...

NASSCAL's October First Friday workshop will feature Ian Mills, with his paper "Canonizing Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans." See the poster below for details on how to join.

We're very pleased to have an interview with Joseph Trigg and Robin-Darling Young about their recent edited volume on Origen's last work on our blog today!

Job posting: Research Associate - Coptic in Manchester, University of Manchester. Applications due October 31, 2025 maryjahariscenter.org/blog/researc...

#ForthcomingPublication (2026) #OpenAccess #ManuscriptStudies #BookHistory www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...

After Lunch we continue with a different, very practical and highly interesting topic. Christa Grünenfelder is working on a study, where she interviewed people between 75-91 that live in a nursing home in Switzerland, on their experiences with the bible. #ArgeAss2025

Hector for #MosaicMonday? Very little is known about this mosaic including the provenance, but the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna offers a tentative date of C1st–C2nd CE and the tantalising hint that this may be part of a Trojan War cycle depicting Hector. #AncientRome #AncientGreece #TrojanWar

🏛️ Introducing the Ancient Mediterranean Learning Commons! 🌊 The AMLC connects scholars with classrooms & communities. Request a speaker or volunteer to share your work! Learn more at www.cac-scec.ca/amlc/ 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

Warum brauchen wir die Geisteswissenschaften - auch und gerade heute? Darüber spricht Akademiepräsident Prof. Dr. Christoph Markschies im Interview mit Jan-Martin Wiarda. Jetzt lesen! www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/09...

6 years POSTOC in Biblical Studies - Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) at Humboldt University Berlin More details here: haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...

Join us as we mark the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate on 10/28 with the annual Fay Rozovsky Lecture in Jewish-Catholic Dialogue, featuring Thomas Bolin, Scholar-in-Residence in Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations. In person and on zoom. REGISTER: events.blackthorn.io/en/3iofXW6/f...

"I do know that when talking to people who perhaps think very differently, the only chance you have of getting them to think in a different way is to touch the heart." — Dr. Jane Goodall (1934-2025) Thanks, Jane, for touching our hearts.

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Jane Goodall. Jane was a much-loved member of the conservation community in Cambridge and worldwide. She completed her PhD at @darwincollegecam.bsky.social and was an Honorary Fellow at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIzR...

Das Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin setzt sein Programm im WiSe 2025/26 fort. Diesmal widmet sich die Reihe den Potenzialen und Grenzen digitaler Methoden in den Altertumswissenschaften. Der erste Termin findet am 14. Oktober statt. lmy.de/sUVNw

We are thrilled to announce NASSCAL's first in-person gathering since 2018. Hosted once again by the University of Virginia. Come and tell us about your work. Details at www.nasscal.com/meetings/

Join us for a book launch of Rodney Aist's, "Walking the Jerusalem Circuit: In the Footsteps of Pilgrims Before the Crusades" at 17:00 IST on Oct 29, 2025 at the Albright (in person only). Post-Event Reception at 18:00 IST. Click here for more details: is.gd/DqvlLK

Interested in learning Coptic? Check out my 8-week primer focused on Gospel of Thomas (Sahidic/Lycopolitan Mixed Dialect). Part 1 Starts Oct. 27 Asynchronous and Synchronous (Mondays 9am Atlanta, GA time) via The Religion Department Sign-up here: www.religiondepartment.com/learning-cop...

Virtual Seminar: The Septuagint in Modern Research, October 20, 2025 15:00 BST: Felix Albrecht will present on "The Greek Psalter: Retrospect and Prospect."

Prepping for our SBL book review panel of @kelsbot.bsky.social ‘s new monograph on the NT canon! Join us on 11/23, 1-3.30 pm!

I made an early Christian studies group---come join! hcommons.org/groups/early...

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...

🔔 #theologyjobs Junior Professorship for “Emerging Christianity with focus on New Testament and non-canonical literature“ (W2 TT) @humboldtuni.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/373976 #theology #theologie #newtestament #neuestestament #BibleStudy #ichbinhanna #AcademicChatter

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.