Dear university administrators, politicians of good will, and the general public, we need the field of religious studies more now than we have ever.

Things are getting started with the great Ayanna Thompson! Tune in now: news.asu.edu/asulive #RaceB4Race

⌛Only one week left! Apply for your Fellowship! Ever dreamed of spending 1 to 3 months fully immersed in the Leiden Special Collections? Now is the time to make that happen. Scaliger Institute offers 16 fellowship grants for 2026. 📅 Deadline: 1 February 🔗 Learn more & apply: edu.nl/3x7xg

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! @ingerkuin.bsky.social discusses her new Diogenes book and the controversy over teaching Plato in Texas. Then, a new open access book on Chinese philosophy, archaeological ecosystems, RaceB4Race, new ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more! 🛢️

📣 CFP: Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize 2026 (Albright Institute) $750 prize for best conference paper in Syro-Palestinian or Biblical Archaeology. Open to PhD candidates Extended Deadline: Feb 15, 2026 🔗 aiar.org/fellowships For more details: is.gd/hsKLQh

We are #hiring! PUP seeks a motivated, detail-oriented individual to support three acquisition editors as an Editorial Assistant (US, Remote or Hybrid). Applications will be accepted through Thursday, January 29th. Learn more about this role and apply here: buff.ly/3yqOphh

🔔 #theologyjobs Postdoc Position: Early Christian Studies at Radboud University euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/401946 #theology #theologie #churchhistory #kirchengeschichte #hebrewbible #BibleStudy #ichbinhanna #AcademicChatter

If you are mobile and want to do research related to this theme, this is a great opportunity. Matthijs is a great person to work with (as are the other biblical studies people on faculty there!), Radboud is a great place to work, and Nijmegen is a great place to live, even if only temporarily.

In case you haven't yet heard about it, there is an interesting new project on 'Ethnicity and (In)Equality in Early Christianity' being led by Matthijs den Dulk (Radboud University). Currently hiring for a 3-year postdoc. Application deadline is 8 March. www.eiec.info/home

Come to Nijmegen and be my colleague! 3-year postdoc on ethnicity and (in)equality in early Christianity, supervised by @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social. All I can say is we are a great group of people and Nijmegen is a pretty good place to live.

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.

The University of Vienna is offering 40 pre-doctoral positions in the humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies. Anyone interested can find more information here. Otherwise, please forward this post. careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Gerard Rouwhorst, editor of the journal and series Vigiliae Christianae. His brilliance and kindness will be dearly missed, and our thoughts are with his family in this difficult moment. 3eenheidparochie.nl/2026/01/09/b...

The last talk of the 2024 GenAut online seminar. Enjoy!

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...

Please share! Two new postdoc positions have opened in the RADHEART project at the University of Bergen. The first is on ancient Rabbinic literature from the 2nd – 7th century CE. #AcRel #sblaar #AncientBlueSky www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

My short Elements book "Literate Workers and the Production of Early Christian Literature" is now available on Cambridge Core. It was a lot of fun to learn from the exciting scholarship that's been happening and I hope that it's a useful resource for people. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

For those of you currently at #aarsbl25 #sblaar25, there should be an advance copy of the volume at the Brill booth, in case you'd like to check it out.

Very much looking forward to the book review panel of my book at 4pm today! It’s S22-336 if anyone’s interested. With superstars @drmjcwarren.bsky.social @brownsmith.bsky.social and Acacia Chan. #aarsbl25 #sblaar25

📚 Out now! 🎉 In this volume, leading scholars draw on 'epistolarity’ to explore early Christian letters, revealing how they shaped thought patterns and continued to be re-read by later generations 📜 Congrats to Judith Lieu, Matthijs den Dulk, and all the contributors! 🔗 brill.com/display/titl...

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)

Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...

Proofs day!

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/...

📚 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...

Jonge onderzoekers, d.w.z. promovendi, postdocs en tijdelijke docenten, zijn essentieel voor het onderwijs en onderzoek aan de universiteiten. Ze hebben het moeilijker dan ooit--en dat is geen onvermijdelijk natuurverschijnsel, daar zitten bestuurlijke en politieke keuzes achter.

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...

The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers. We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts. Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!

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/

We are looking for a one-year full-time Research Associate to work on Coptic manuscripts in Manchester as part of a wonderful project that connects mss with local communities. Requires strong skills in Coptic, English, & Arabic. Deadline 31/10. Please share! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Congrats to Augustinus P.M. Aerssens on winning the CRINT Prize for his essay "Augustine's Jews: 'Slay Them Not,' But Still a Dead Letter?," which, according to the jury (Berthelot, Rosen-Zvi, Tomson), "sheds interesting light on a fundamental aspect of Jewish-Christian polemics in late Antiquity"

I personally don’t think disciplines need to be “relevant” to be important. That said, a day doesn’t pass—esp these days!—when there isn’t something in the news that Religious Studies training/coursework could help one understand

This arrived unexpectedly today!

University of Oregon is planning to close dept and lay off faculty—incl many *tenured* faculty—& among those impacted are Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Holocaust Studies. Here is a link to a petition asking the president to reconsider actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...

What an absolute shame.

In which Cliff Ando concentrates his formidable powers of analysis in a broad-based and razor-sharp indictment of the University of Chicago over the last few decades. My lord. This is *withering*.

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Atrocious

Having enjoyed a few such threads, let’s do a “for every like I’ll post something I find interesting about ancient Judaism” thread.

Job: 0,75 Wiss. Mitarb. "Historische Theologie" (Univ. Siegen) https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-156256 Siegen, 01.10.2025-30.09.2028, Universität Siegen, Bewerbungsschluss: 23.07.2025

Come study with us! Fully-funded Ph.D. scholarship opportunity to work on the Late Antique translation of texts. www.acu.edu.au/research-and...

I am delighted to announce the IRCI has 2 job openings in early Christianity (specialisation open, research-focus, early career). Closing date 15 Aug. Contact me with any questions. We hope you'll consider joining our excellent group of scholars! candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...

I am happy to share an advertisement for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven project "Commentary on John of Ephesus's Ecclesiastical History." The deadline is 23 July 2025, and the position is to be filled from 1 October 2025. Please feel free to contact me or Hartmut Leppin with questions.

Truly one of the best jobs in academic publishing at De Gruyter Brill opening up for the first time in 24 years in the fantastic team led by Albrecht Doehnert

The final First Fridays Workshop of the 2024/2025 season features Sible de Blaauw discussing a martyrium commemorating the story of the apostle John being boiled in oil. Join us May 2.

Blij met dit initiatief. Hoop dat veel UHD's en hoogleraren het zullen steunen.

Deeply saddened by the passing of Hans-Josef Klauck. My first class with him was in 2008, and I remember being immediately impressed by his enormous knowledge of the ancient world, command of Greek, and scholarly productivity, all of which he combined with remarkable humility and generosity.

Check out the CFP for this year's CISSR conference in Italy. Please do observe how incredibly broad the unit run by myself and James is--anything that thinks about biblical texts as conflicted/conflicting resources is appropriate! 😍 [Repost to earn my unending respect 😁!] cissr.net/call-for-pap...

Send in a paper! It’s going to be a great conference!

Schneemelcher Prize for dissertation or first monograph (accepted or published <2 years) on early Christian literature & its reception. Offered by University of Bonn, Germany. Award is €1,000 plus an invited lecture. Deadline 15 April, results 30 June.