I will be doing a live interview via Zoom Dec. 22 on apocryphal Christmas traditions. Join in and ask me some skill-testing questions! See the image and link below for information.

New issue of Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 33, No. 4 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56088 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Excited to share my book!! What a year, totally wild. Will be available in open access soon www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Der_Kampf_de...

Our annual Loeb tree is up! It's topped with a 3D print of a 3rd century BCE terracotta figure housed in the library @palaeofuturist.bsky.social sketchfab.com/3d-models/la...

🎉 KU Leuven turns 600 today! 🎉 On 9 December 1425, Pope Martin V signed the foundation bull that established a university in Leuven! 💥 Use code KULEUVEN600 and get 25% off books about KU Leuven’s history. 👉 Explore the collection: lup.be/collection/6... #KULeuven600 #600YearsKULeuven #KULeuven

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Coptic Studies (Brussels, 11–16 July 2022) @irht-cnrs.bsky.social @openedition.bsky.social #openaccess books.openedition.org/irht/1502

#ISAW invites submissions for the graduate student conference: Reimagining Body and Space in the Ancient World held March 5-6th. Submissions are due by December 19th and should be emailed to [email protected]. For more info: isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-gr...

Join the ICS: The Institute of Classical Studies is now recruiting for an open-ended lectureship in Classical Studies in support of its national mission. Full details here: www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Deadline 15 January

We have an exciting event in Jan for PGRs, ECRs and those starting out in fields involving the past. Join us in considering how the Society could contribute to early career support by enabling the exchange of ideas and peer support in these challenging times. www.sal.org.uk/event/early-...

First-generation scholars make up more than a quarter of US doctoral students, yet their experiences in academia often remain underrepresented. Hear from first-gen scholars at multiple career stages about their paths in higher education: bit.ly/4p5QGK8 #firstgen #scholars #humanities

NASSCAL, AELAC, and Beyond Canon are collaborating on a conference/workshop to take place in Regensburg, 8-10 July 2025. The theme is "Early Christian Apocalypticism (II-V saec.): Contours, Contexts, and Social Functions." If you are interested in taking part contact [email protected].

The first two books of our 'Coptic Gospels & Associated Texts' series with @universitypress.cambridge.org are now available to read online. The series provides thematic introductions & new translations to non-canonical gospels. www.cambridge.org/core/series/...

📣Are you a NAPS member? Did you publish your first article in 2024 or 2025? Do you like cash money? Send a PDF of that first article to me at [email protected] by January 31, 2026 Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!

Today on AJR: a #publications article from Ian N. Mills on his new book, The Hypothesis of the Gospels: Narrative Traditions in Hellenistic Reading Culture #newtestament @iannelsonmills.bsky.social @fortresspress.bsky.social

Early Christian Epistolarity is out now! Get your copy (or, you know, get your library to order it) at brill.com/display/titl.... It was an honor to work on this project with Judith Lieu @greggiven.bsky.social @angelastandh.bsky.social @cavanconcannon.bsky.social, Harry Maier (1/2)

In der Vorweihnachtszeit schnüren die Altertumswissenschaften ein großes, buntes Paket für Sie. Genießen Sie diese besondere Zeit mit ihrem interessanten Angebot. Wir wünschen Ihnen eine besinnliche Adventszeit, frohe Weihnachten und schon jetzt einen guten Start ins neue Jahr! lmy.de/Wdzqr

The CAC is accepting applications from members for the Mark Golden Book Award. Applications are due December 15th. See our website for full details: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/gold... #AncientBlueSky

📣Did you read someone's great first article from either 2024 or 2025? Is the author a NAPS member? Would they like cash money? Nominate them by sending a PDF of their piece to [email protected] by January 31, 2026 Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!

Exegesis and Reception of the Psalms, 1st International Göttingen Conference on the Septuagint, September 2–5, 2026 septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/conference20...

Join us Friday, Dec. 5 for NASSCAL's final First Friday Workshop of 2025 with Samuel Cook. Details for how to participate in the poster below.

An election for the 2025-2027 NASSCAL Board of Directors will take place at this week's First Friday Workshop (Dec. 5). The slate of nominees can be found here: www.nasscal.com/2025/12/02/n...

🔔Herzliche Einladung zum Festakt "50 Jahre IxTheo" und zur Tagung "Theologische Forschung, Lehre und Infrastruktur im Kontext von Digitalisierung und KI"! 🔔 12./13.2.2026, Tübingen und online Das Programm und den Link zur Anmeldung finden Sie nun auf der Website: ixtheo.de/Content/digi...

A study on a palimpsest witness attesting to the complete Syriac version of the so-called middle recension of Ignatius of Antioch’s Letters is ready.

Some news: www.uia.no/forskning/fo... The Research Council of Norway has awarded me a grant to examine concepts of violence in ancient Jewish war narratives. More soon, including a postdoc position hire.

The second is earmarked for research on ancient Christian ascetic and monastic literature from its emergence to the 6th century CE. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Nordic New Testament conference call for papers! www.gu.se/en/literatur...

Two fully paid PhD positions at Lund University! One in Hebrew Bible and the other in Jewish studies, focus late antiquity. Gorgeous location and gorgeous colleagues. Don't sleep on this! (Set filter to HT to access these two in particular.) lunduniversity.lu.se/vacancies

Dec. 12th Noon EST Jacopo Gnisci, "Ethiopian Artists, Byzantine Teachers, and Italian Colonizers: A Reflection on the Early Historiography of “Medieval” Ethiopian Art | Yale Institute of Sacred Music ism.yale.edu/events/2025-...

+++ Newsletter +++ Im November blicken wir auf Märtyrerinnen, Mythen und moderne Methoden: von nordafrikanischen Heiligen über steinzeitliche Fundplätze bis zu digitalen Zwillingen in der Archäologie. Außerdem laden wir zu unserer Festveranstaltung in der James-Simon-Galerie ein. lmy.de/UWZSB

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