Dear friends, today is a great day to preorder my new book, and I've made a webpage that makes that easy for you, so why not just do it? gratifying.life

I have purchased 12 LA28 tickets for 12 local members of my immediate family. Here’s hoping for two years hence.

I have learned much about hockey thanks to an Erdös-Denver number of 2, and I am returning to this philological commentary of 1 Clement.

As I am working on my 1 Clement commentary and translation, the status of Hebrews seems to be going all over the place.

Artemis II: eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-s...

I was going to toast you all with pic of my glass of limoncello, but I downed it before I snap the pic. Oh well. Cin cin and buona Pasqua!

Look for my take on why citing the Armenia Lectionary in the study of early Christian worship can be problematic! Excited to see this out in the world.

ἄχρι οὗ ἔλθῃ

Journal articles deserve to be read.

Discalced!

There is a new review of my book, Paul and the Citizen Body, in Expository Times.

Prompt: "write the title abstract and first few paragraphs of a law review article about the backlash against AI written law review articles. Make the title 'Rage Against Mere Machines'. Make the formatting look like a real article. include that it is forthcoming in the Harvard law review."

Members of the North American Patristics Society - please check your email and submit your nominations (including self-nominations!) to the Nominations Committee using the Google Form link or email. Help shape the future of the Society! www.patristics.org/about/nomina...

Built as part of the imperial complex in Trier after Constantine succeeded his father as tetrarch in 306, the Aula Palatina is one of the best preserved basilicas from antiquity. It was not originally a church but a public and civic space. 📷🇩🇪 flic.kr/p/pM2J3D #photography #architecture #travel

The NAPS program has been posted. I am chairing and presenting. custom.cvent.com/DADF18846EBF...

University of Iowa Classics major is in trouble: c.org/KKFFxWD6nZ

New discovery: During excavations in Cologne, archaeologists have unearthed a lararium, a household shrine, dating back to the 2nd century. This discovery is considered unique north of the Alps. Similar examples were found in Pompeii and Herculaneum. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft... 🏺

Velociraptors had feathers

Call for Papers: Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense LXXV: Translating the Scriptures, July 15 - 18, 2026, Leuven. Abstracts due March 31, 2026. theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...

Where is the Sappho Brothers Poem papyrus? We only know that it is LOST. Again. #Sappho #classics #papyrology facesandvoices.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/t...

Ps 60,7 according to an ancient and a modern scribe. #PAM41582 www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-...

As a philosopher and legal scholar, now professor emeritus, with over 35 years as academic, it is both sickening and wholly unsurprising that these high-powered men of the academy had no problem consorting with a known pedophile and trafficker of children for prostitution.

Teaching archaic Rome at the moment and refamiliarizing myself with the evidence for the Capitoline temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus. Jaw-dropping to me that they managed a structure of this size (at this location!) in the late 6th c. BCE. By far the largest in central Italy at the time. 1/2

Founded in the 7th or 6th c. BCE, Skylletion was a Greek colony. It became part of Rome's empire in the 2nd c. BCE when a group of Roman colonists settled there, and for a period it was called Minervium. It was the birthplace of the 6th c. author, politician, and monastic entrepreneur Cassiodorus.

I always liked this one.

Greek and Latin inscriptions from the #Roman era used for the pavement of the atrium of the so-called "double church" at #Ephesus, known as the Church of Mary, which dates to the 5th c. It may have been the site of 431 Council of Ephesus. 📷🇹🇷 flic.kr/p/qtm1Br #photography #archaeology #spolia

‘Many bands were started by factory owners in the belief that music would give their workers purpose, strengthen social bonds and discourage violence and disorder.’ Rachel Armitage on the competitive brass band scene. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Please share widely! 3-year Postdoc in Early Christian Studies. Deadline: 8 March. Let me know if you have any questions or want to nominate a colleague.

My review of Étienne Nodet's *A Gate to Heaven: Essenes, Qumran: Origins and Heirs* is now live on @readingreligion.bsky.social. Check it out and let me know what think! readingreligion.org/978056770971...

I went to see one of my research environments.

The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae project (125-year-long complete Latin language dictionary effort) is advertising to hire a full-stack developer in Munich (Django/React): job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...

Walter Brueggemann (1933-2025) claudemariottini.com/2026/01/06/w...

Apply to be the 2026-7 Munby Fellow in bibliography and history of the book @theul.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ688/m...

Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) asked people to film themselves reading Rousseau’s Confessions: ‘The idea of lots of people repeating the same claim to singularity seemed interesting.’ Read and watch a clip on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

The “Early Christian Letters” chapter arrived in the mail.

The newest episode of the pod dives into how scientists are learning to decode the calls of the endangered Hawaiian monk seals

www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur... Too bad. I liked this shop and they had blue bottle coffee when it was roasted in Oakland and not over priced

Possibly the most sublime Roman fresco of a temple. The architectural detail of the spiky-topped wooden barrier, the painted relief in the pediment, & the offerings burning on the altar; it’s a symphony of observations. Archaeological Museum of Capri (no provenance) #FrescoFriday

My NAPS proposal on clothing in Augustine’s Confessions was accepted.

i’m definitely using this one.

Noah and his longship ark BL Cotton MS Claudius B IV; Old English Hexateuch; f.14r

OMG look what was on my doorstep! i haven’t seen the print version yet, but it’s prettier than i expected!!

New issue of Phoenix Vol. 79, No. 1 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55982 @phoenixjournal.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @cacscec.bsky.social

I have survived the atmospheric river thus far.

New Article Dropping Soon I’m happy to report that my article “The Spirit Purifies All Foods: Baptism as Bodily Purification in the Jewish Matrix of Mark 7.1-23” has been accepted for publication with New Testament Studies (NTS) @cambridgeuniversitypress with minor revisions. Abstract below.

The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads: new study. theconversation.com/the-roman-em...

We are now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 Shohet Scholars Grant for research on the Ancient Mediterranean! Awards range from $2,000-$30,000. Deadline is Feburary 1, 2026. More information: www.catacombsociety.org/shohet-schol...

‘Flaubert had the highest conception of Art and the lowest conception of Business. “I do not see the connection,” he wrote, “between a five-franc piece and an idea.”’ Julian Barnes on Flaubert and his difficult relationship with his publisher. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...