#fabulamurina (mouse story) 471 cave! dracunculus terribilis alas scorteas plaudit et flammam exhalat (Beware! The terrible dragon is flapping its leathery wings and breathing out flames). noli te vexare, Silvius musculus est (Don't worry, it's Silvius the little mouse)!

Catch up with our @catholicbiblical.bsky.social panel discussion of this significant scholarly book about Paul's theology of divine desire! I reflect on Christ's 'heartset' against rape culture and other abuses of power, with implications for the academy and the church youtu.be/isutSePhSms

New podcast! Join historian Tupá Guerra, an expert in demonology and the Dead Sea Scrolls, as she explores the tapestry of the past. Through insightful conversations with fellow experts, we make academic history accessible to everyone. youtube.com/@umatupanote...

ooof this feels like most every university rn

All welcome to join our panel discussion of this significant scholarly book about Paul's theology of divine desire! I'll be reflecting on Christ's heartset against rape culture and other abuses of power, with implications for the academy and the church www.catholicbiblical.org/meetings/ubr...

The University of Nottingham's latest round of financial restructuring involves suspending our Theology & Religion BA course with a view to its permanent closure. Please support our staff and students by signing this petition c.org/MQVjrMwXq8

My former employer, @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, will be the first Russell Group university to cut #Theology degrees from next year onwards: thetab.com/2025/11/06/r... Do consider to sign this student-led petitions: www.change.org/p/stop-the-r... @uonucu.bsky.social

Student-initiated petition to save the BA in Theology and Religion at the University of Nottingham. Please do sign. www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...

Good for them, it's madness what has been proposed.

Reminder of the quality of the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social TRS course that they have now chosen to scrap

University of Nottingham is scrapping the course that trained the guy who created #TheTraitors theme music Oops on the timing there, Nottingham! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Languages and religious studies yet again on the list of courses axed in the UK higher education crisis. Solidarity to colleagues at @uonucu.bsky.social

After repeated and relentless cuts over the last decade, Nottingham has now lost its final single-honours TRS course. Many other courses too.

it’s officially book promo time! so, hey, i wrote this book; it comes out in a week! would you mind signal boosting and asking your library to buy it? if you’d like a copy, the code AUFLY30 will get you 30%off.

I’ll be running an online introduction to Josephus in November. Sign up if you have interest or pass on to students if you think they might

This looks a lot of fun to try and you've got to love a recipe that repeatedly warns you DO NOT TASTE THIS while you're cooking it 😂

Look what's finally out in the world!

This is one of the very first things I point out in any “interfaith” work I do.

🗣️ 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

This question is one that intrigued me for a while and I finally got to research and publish a little project on it here (open access): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Bottom line was, hearing and reading Biblical Hebrew aloud was very useful for students; other methods had mixed results

Good morning from the lion in the margin Bodleian Library, MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.64r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

If you've ever wanted to read historic handwriting, we've got a free workshop just for you! We'll be running a palaeography workshop in the archive on the 21st of November. Make sure to book your spot by emailing us at [email protected] For more events, head to histfestbucks.co.uk

You still have a couple of days to sign up for my online class on Archaeology and the Bible; we start on Thursday! www.religiondepartment.com/HBArchaeolog...

The tide of the battle of Cat and Mouse begins to turn. BL Harley 6563; Book of Hours; c.1320-c.1330; England, S. E. (London); ff.72v, 74v, 75

A local community group I'm affiliated with is running a charity drive for Gazans. If you can spare a penny and/or a repost, we'd be hugely grateful. www.gofundme.com/f/Humanitari...

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Hell yeah!

Oi biblical scholars: Stop saying “the” Old Testament without specifying which one you mean. Decenter the Protestant collection as the unspoken norm (especially if you’re referring to a collection of texts that predates the Reformation). ‘K thanks.

My favourite Rosh Hashanah card! 🍎🍯

WE'RE BACK AND BEGINNING FROM THE BEGINNING (OF LITERATURE): "Darling Lover of the Dead Dumuzi: Discovering Enheduana, Sumerian Priestess of the Moon-God and the World's First Author" --This Wednesday at 7:30, Kings College Halifax

The ability for independent scholars, like me, to get their work noticed, while also standing firm against gross copyright infringement (AI theft, etc) is shrinking fast.

Or Cthulhu claiming a victim...

I ain’t even mad

Prints of my painting I’m Judging You are available from £15. Postcards & greetings cards too. All proceeds will go to a local Nottingham charity- lmara- which helps abused women and children. It’s a brilliant little charity. If interested, contact me here on Bluesky @pieorama.bsky.social .

That feeling when I, a independent scholar, read something I *should* be cited in, in which the author cites other chapters from the same volume my work was published in, and yet...nada. bupkis. Frustration? Annoyance? Marginalization? Whatever the feeling, it's making it hard to focus.

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

And here it is, my greatest article title to date: “The Booty Call: Plundering as (Dis)assemblage in the Book of Judith.” Here Katia and I get into a range of meanings that plunder and artefact manipulation for Judith’s capture and dedication of Holofernes’ items brill.com/view/journal...

My author’s copy has arrived from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social . Very nice to see in person. I wrote an entry with Laura Quick on developments in women’s ritual bathing in ancient Judaism.

Love this thread!

The job that made me redundant last month has been publishing on social media how they also gave me a teaching award last month. Anyways, and completely unrelated, had this as a bit of an earworm recently. youtu.be/s9HyDRpJrsw?...

👀 www.bloomsbury.com/us/cotexts-a...

I'll be talking all about this (and other items of material culture found in the Cave of Letters) in my Religion for Breakfast webinar on Monday (21 July @ 2:30 EST). Register here: www.religiondepartment.com/offers/72VKj...

Woohoo! (Blocked out the uni name because they just made me redundant so no more free publicity from me)

Next week I'll be giving a live webinar on "What Did Jesus Wear?" for Religion for Breakfast. Come along for a fun intro to the wonderful world of ancient textiles, Jewish dress behaviour, and why knowing about any of this matters. 21 July @ 9:30am EST. Register at the link below

PUBLIC! Prof Jon Hoover's new video series, 'Exploring the Qu'ran' - 👉text and transmission 👉interpretation 👉themes 👉the daily life of Muslims 👉interfaith relations Video 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHl4... #islam #theology #quran #religion

Dr Emily Gathergood's next in the spotlight whose research focuses on early Christian conceptualisations of the body, healthcare & disability. Her award-winning book (forthcoming) The Midwifery of God explores divinity, maternity & pain in the NT & other early Christian writings. Bio buff.ly/JKRlwac

I've just published an open-access article about the best teaching techniques for Biblical Hebrew: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Sadly Nottingham's Biblical Hebrew programme is under threat, but you can sign a petition to save it here: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...

Please join me in signing this petition against UoN Language Centre staff cuts, which include Hebrew and Arabic programmes docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...