Miss any AJR articles this week? Find the entire Strike #forum here: www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/4/...

My piece is live! Check out this great conversation and great book.

This week on AJR, we are featuring a book review #forum on Sarah E. Bond's Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire. We begin with an essay from Laura Nasrallah @yalepress.bsky.social @sarahebond.bsky.social @lsnasrallah.bsky.social

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Friends, I am hiring two scholar-advisors this year! Come join the best advising team in the country (for real). Please help me spread the news about this great opportunity! This is a permanent, non-time limited instructional staff position, and I will be happy to answer questions!

Paul and Politics: The FIRST SESSION is an open call inviting papers that reflect critically on the role of children, families, and households within the Pauline communities of the first century, or reflecting on how these groups form modern reading communities. 3/

Looking for a home for your SBL proposal? Consider two sections I co-chair Early Christianity and the Ancient Economy and Paul and Politics. Both are especially open to early career folks and grad students and have open calls. Text of CFPs threaded below:

Delighted to share I have been promoted to Associate Professor and granted tenure! Soren found the most oversized, ridiculous balloon for my office, which a student labeled tenure-saurus rex. Grateful for many people and places that helped me get here, and glad for humor and joy at the finish line.

I will be giving a lecture titled "Meeting Thekla in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Silk Road" later this month as part of The Silk Roads Lecture Series: People, Objects, and Stories on the Move at SLU's AMES Center. | February 26, 2026 at 3:30-5:00pm CST | Zoom: slu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Those going SBL, here’s a panel not to miss: a review session of Sarah Bond’s book Strike (Yale, 2025), with responses by Jen Quigley, Richard Last, Larry Welborn, and Laura Nasrallah. Should be a great conversation! Many thanks to Agnes Choi for taking the lead on organizing.

Next up on the FTN calendar... yes, we know we are spoiling you with such excellent speakers: this week it was Dr Holly Morse and next month we have Dr Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones. Make sure Wednesday 19th November goes in your diary!

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org! I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy! Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

🚨 Postdoc at UT Austin Religious Studies in Religion, Healing, and Magic in Late Antiquity (2 years)! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UTstaf...

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...

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...

$175 for 8-week Coptic course focused on learning to read the Gospel of Thomas. Access to weekly 90-minute lecture (available synchronous or asynch.), learning materials authored by me, and weekly office hours. #Coptic #DigitalPhilology #NagHammadi #Apocrypha #BiblicalStudies

With some new additions including @torschtheology.bsky.social, just a quick self-promotion that I have a theological education starter pack that I believe is the most comprehensive on Bluesky. So send me more schools if yours has joined, and go follow ones you are interested go.bsky.app/5e3e9se

I enjoyed joining CNN’s Victor Blackwell yesterday morning to reflect on Pope Francis’s funeral and on what comes next for the church. Every decade or so, all of our niche ecclesiological expertise becomes breaking news-level thrilling

@womanistprof67.bsky.social is offering an AMAZING lecture on Luke’s parables of enslavement at her chair installation at CTS. So lucky to listen and learn.

The O. Wayne Rollins Foundation made a historic $20 million gift to Candler to support MDiv scholarships. Describing it as “pivotal,” Dean Jonathan Strom says the gift enables the school to financially support students pursuing careers in ministry more than ever before. bit.ly/rollins-gift...

A truly transformative gift for our school, dedicated to student scholarship support for our MDiv students.

A quick public service announcement that @sblpress.bsky.social is now here on Bluesky!

UVA is hiring an advising fellow, and looking for folks working in the liberal arts (broadly defined). On my read of the ad: it's full time, has teaching & advising components, and the pay grade is ~$70K. as a bonus, you'd be working with the incomparable @meirazk.bsky.social. check it out:

For folks who follow biblical studies and/or womanist scholarship, @boozybiblescholar.bsky.social and @womanistprof67.bsky.social are now on Bluesky and are def worth a follow.

My book How the Rabbis Became Experts is now available for preorder! Officially out on Apr 22, 2025. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Okay, lots of new clergy (esp clergywomen) followed me the last few days. Welcome, and also, if you are looking for your seminary/theological school on Bluesky, like @candlertheology.bsky.social, this is the starter pack for you. And if you see your school and I don’t have it here, lmk!

🚨 Very pleased to announce the publication of a new article I had the privilege of co-authoring with Lara Boleslawsky. “Antisemitic Charisma: A Critique of Max Weber’s Interpretations of Paul, Jews, and Charisma…” was just published online in MTSR. Happy to send a copy if you don’t have access!

Don’t miss this chance to explore the intersections between justice and faith! Join YTI this Presidents' Day weekend (Feb. 14–17) for a transformative travel seminar to Montgomery, Selma, and Birmingham. Open to 10th–12th graders. Apply by Jan. 1, 2025. Check out the link below for more information.

Recent finds include BSK, the recommended schools from the replies, and…I think Union has just joined Bluesky. Help me build as more schools join!

Exciting news! Candler has expanded its already robust scholarship offerings to make theological education more accessible. Learn about the new opportunities and apply by January 15 for top scholarship consideration—without having to submit an extra application! bit.ly/candler-upda...

Will keep updating as more schools join, folks send me links, and I occasionally find more with searches.

It was so lovely to end the semester with this gathering.

Blue skies over Candler—feels like the perfect place to start. 🌤️ #HelloBlueSky

Harvard’s Committee on the Study of Religion (CSR) is searching for a College Fellow in Modern Jewish Thought (one-year postdoctoral position w/possibility of renewal for a second year; app due Jan 31, 2025) - please help us spread the word! facultyresources.fas.harvard.edu/resource/col...

We are proud to announce our latest release of richly annotated textual data! Our corpora now have over 2 million words, annotated for part of speech, syntax, entitites, and much much more +

Since more schools are joining, here’s a work in progress starter pack of theological schools. go.bsky.app/5e3e9se

Since more schools are joining, here’s a work in progress starter pack of theological schools. go.bsky.app/5e3e9se

Welcome to Bluesky, @candlertheology.bsky.social!!

I put together the #SBLAAR24 discount codes for American religion: usreligion.substack.com/p/sblaar24-p...

re introducing myself for #sblaar24 bsky: i teach ancient christianities at Gonzaga; I research early Christian deathscapes as affective archives constructed materially and discursively. (1/4)

Some Monday Plugs: Paul and Politics’ last session this am at 9, and Digital Humanities is just getting started with sessions at 1 and 4. Hope to see you there.

The usual book pose! So glad to see Assembling Futures: Economy, Ecology, Democracy, and Religion, coedited with Catherine Keller, out in the wild with Fordham University Press. A timely topic, and sold out of in person copies, but still available to order!

Important #AARSBL24 update: saw wild sea lions for the first time in La Jolla last night.

Read the full thread!

@stephaniecobb33.bsky.social giving profound advice to ECRs after sharing an unprofessional line from a reader report on her first important book Dying to Be Men, “Don’t carry other peoples’ unprofessionalism with you; it belongs to them not to you.” #SBLAAR24

Love the concept of this panel from Metacriticism of Biblical Scholarship going on right now in HB Sapphire 410a: senior scholars reviewing their own first book. #SBLAAR24

Still working on those socials skills. Is it #sblaar this year instead of #aarsbl? Or #sblaar24? Some hashtag help, please?