Thanks, Isaac!

In less than two weeks, I'll be hosting this @researchireland.ie New Foundations event @chesterbeatty.bsky.social and @dublincityuni.bsky.social! Very much looking forward to working with a fab team on ideas about 'home' and the late antique artefacts in Beatty's collections!

My book is out online! It won’t feel real until the print book comes out in September, but I’m excited to see it out in the world at last.

Funding for 4 year PhD in Uni Galway, on project ‘Connect 4: Uncovering Knowledge Exchange within the Early Medieval Insular World through Linguistic Idiosyncrasies in Obscure Letters, Words, Phrases, and Texts’, directed by Ciaran Arthur. Deadline 20 June. www.universityofgalway.ie/classics/res...

📣 Seminar Spotlight: Later Epistles The chairs (@kelsbot.bsky.social and Nick Moore) welcome proposals on Hebrews, the Catholic Epistles, the Deutero-Pauline Epistles, and other early Christian letters. This year we particularly welcome papers with a focus on any aspect of these texts’ reception.

Lily Vuong, “Beyond Boundaries: Scholarly Categories and the Apocryphal Mary in Text, Pictorial Art, and Iconography,” MTSR Online Publication Date: 20 Mar 2025

The British New Testament Society is now on Bluesky!

Review of my book by Steven Friesen out in Pasts Imperfect: "Academia needs studies like this that raise suppressed questions if we are to understand better the ancient texts, their histories of usefulness, our academic disciplines, and our contemporary societal struggles."

bracing (and positive!) review of @robertamazza.bsky.social's STOLEN FRAGMENTS in RBL by @gpfewster.bsky.social www.sblcentral.org/API/Reviews/...

it’s so delightfully obvious when early christianity scholars have feelings™️ about our primary sources. 😂

The best part is that it's in a former Augustinian nunnery. We do have a couple of spots still available to attend, so if you're interested, do hit us up.

Interested in hearing Tom's paper? Email me or @garrickvallen.bsky.social for the hybrid link.

Next week I get to share a bit of my book by presenting on #twilight, @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social and 1 Clement in Glasgow. Looking forward to good times with @garrickvallen.bsky.social and @kelsbot.bsky.social

I am immensely grateful to have been awarded a Major Research Fellowship by @leverhulme.bsky.social, for a project to consider "Biblical Pseudepigrapha and Eclectic Philosophical Cultures in Antiquity”. @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @abdndivinity.bsky.social www.abdn.ac.uk/news/23914/

Can't wait for this!

Hey NT scholars of bluesky, what is in your opinion the best recent introductions to NT?

Please spread the word... Hyatt on Sunday of SBL, 9:00-11:00pm.

I am excited to announce that in May 2025 I will be succeeding John J. Collins as the General Editor of the world leading Yale Anchor Bible Series. It's an honor for me to serve as the steward of this important series. @yalebooks.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/pr...

Forthcoming from OUP, early 2025 (featuring Peter from GA 1751)

Out in the fall in the Journal of Early Christian Studies!

New proposed title for the Epistle of James: Cut the Bullshit Already.

what a vision for education and doing history -- to be baffled, imaginative, nimble.

The finished copies of my book have arrived! So excited to share this with the world and so honored by these endorsements from Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Catherine Nixey, Tim Whitmarsh, A-J Levine, and others. It's 20% off today on the Hachette website: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/candi...

Lots to unpack here (GA 462)

"Classical scholars may with advantage occasionally glance at the New Testament." Sick burn, Zuntz ("The Critic Correcting the Author")

NT/EC people: come to Glasgow! The BNTS 2024 cfp is now open. The Later Epistles seminar welcomes any relevant proposals for two open sessions.

New issue of Early Christianity (EC) Vol. 14, No. 4 (2023) www.mohrsiebeck.com/heft/early-c... Perceptions of Pseudepigraphy across the Ancient Mediterranean @kelsbot.bsky.social @greggiven.bsky.social

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It's out! Early Christianity just published a special issue on Pseudepigraphy built from a colloquium I hosted last February thanks to a grant from the @britishacademy.bsky.social and @leverhulme.bsky.social. It includes +

Joining the other wonderful contributors to @kelsbot.bsky.social's Early Christianity special issue "Perceptions of Pseudepigraphy across the Ancient Mediterranean", I'm really happy to have this piece included. I'll also be very glad to DM any interested folks a PDF.

Grateful to @kelsbot.bsky.social for the invitation to participate in a fantastic workshop last year on pseudepigraphy in the ancient Mediterranean, which is now a special journal issue! Check out the other great contributions too (Early Christianity 14.4)

Honored to be included among esteemed colleagues in @kelsbot.bsky.social's special issue of Early Christianity, "Perceptions of Pseudepigraphy across the Ancient Mediterranean." Let me know if you need a PDF and I'll be happy to send one your way—whenever I myself manage to download it 🙃

Some thoughts on academic meritocracy--an issue rightly raised for renewed discussion. The narrative of those who wanted Gay removed as Harvard president--largely echoed in coverage NYT &c + even many who defended her--holds that "merit" prevailed prior to recent diversification of the academy +

I am so magnetically drawn to scholars who root their intellectual work in a practice of emotional warmth. I am so sick of inert, fearful, and cold intellectual praxis.

Let’s all swoon over just HOW bad this (published! series!) is: incomprehensible Hebrew! Fully incorrect Gospel title! It’s almost adorable.

@siobhanjolley.bsky.social and I are running a one-day symposium on the creative reception of the Gospel of Mary and invite scholars, artists, and practitioners to submit a paper proposal. The event will take place on 16 May at the University of Manchester. Proposal deadline: 16 Dec.

Finally: Monday afternoon at 4:00 PM we convene a panel reflecting on Hindy Najman's Seconding Sinai @ 20 years. @kelsbot.bsky.social, Molly Zahn, and yours truly each putting Seconding Sinai in conversation with another book/thinker; Hindy Najman offering a response. 3/3

I'm pleased to announce that I have just discovered a fragmentary ancient document that can be reconstructed and interpreted to support ideas I already strongly believe in.

Proofs day! It was a pleasure working with the brilliant Elisa Uusimäki (Aarhus Universitet) on this short piece for a special issue of Early Christianity edited by @kelsbot.bsky.social!

Keep an eye out for the first book in our new Oxford UP book series, Reception of OT Apocrypha - and let us know if you are working on a project that might be apt!

The cover for Jacob Lollar's (forthcoming volume in the Early Christian Apocrypha series. And wonderful endorsements from Kyle Smith, Philip Jenkins, and Alberto Rigolio. Fingers crossed that this will be available at SBL.

I'm prepping a new course for the spring (Hebrews and General Epistles!) and took copious notes as I skimmed possible readings and planned this summer... none of which now make any sense to me. 😭

Brilliant and careful, as usual. Very worth a read.

Woooooooo!!! Loved the pieces of this book I've had the privilege to read so far. Congrats, Isaac!