I’m excited to see everyone in Chicago for #NAPS2025! I’m so very sorry for the weather - stay warm! 🥶

Today on AJR, Joseph Foltz reviews Paula Fredriksen's Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years (Princeton University Press, 2024).

Looking forward to reading this! August 2025! The subtitle is: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity

A lovely story to start the day with - wishing all those who love and nurture others a very special holiday ♥️ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...

There's a lot to be said about the presence or absence of women in early Christian ascetic communities, and that is often influenced by the way that ascetics did (or did not!) think of masculinity as the aim of ascetic practice

It’s a good time to be a historian of Christianity in Chicago! An alum of our neighbors, the Catholic Theological Union no less. Bringing it home to Hyde Park! #popeleoxiv #pope

🎉 New Spotify podcast has just dropped! 🎙️ Listen to @mara-nicosia.bsky.social (recently completed @britishacademy.bsky.social fellow) about her new book @gorgiaspress.bsky.social 🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/3cT2...

The Nominating Committee of the North American Patristics Society is still accepting nominations for positions on the board and other committees. Help shape the future of our society! Self-nominations welcome! #NAPS2025

#AAR #Advocacy | We learned this morning (April 3) that DOGE has begun terminating previously awarded NEH grants. If you have been or might be affected, we've put together resources from the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) to help: aarweb.org/news/take-ac...

Join us on April 29 for our final East of Byzantium lecture of the year: The Malleability of Memory in Memorializing the Saints with Mary Farag. 12:00 PM ET on Zoom. Register: eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-eve...

RSVP for “Armenian Christian Martyrs in Text and Image,” a free, virtual event happening on March 26 at 11 a.m. (CT): hmml.org/programs/eve...   Special guest Dr. Ani Shahinian is a cataloger of Armenian manuscripts at HMML and a researcher of Christian martyrdom in Late Medieval Armenia.

A great article in Sightings today from my brilliant colleague, Prof. Angie Heo #martinmartycenter #uchicagodivinity martycenter.org/sightings/ev...

A fitting tribute to an exemplary scholar and teacher - he will be missed in Swift Hall and beyond www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

This year I'm on the #aar steering committees of the Middle Eastern Christianity Unit & Religion and Memory Unit. Check out our CfP(s) & consider submitting a proposal! MECU June: papers.aarweb.org/group/14948 MECU Nov.: papers.aarweb.org/group/14947 R&M Nov.: papers.aarweb.org/group/14993

well hellooooo

Friends submitting proposals for AAR - please check out the call from the Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit led by @riccardiswartz.bsky.social and @phildorroll.bsky.social #aar2025

We begin 2025 with a #pedagogy article on public scholarship, teaching, and research from Emily Chesley and Rebekah Haigh, co-hosts of the podcast Women Who Went Before @rebekahjhaigh.bsky.social

I'm excited to ring in the new year by sharing the first review of my book (by Yulia Minets), published in the Journal of Early Christian Studies. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Farewell 2024! These are the 10 most-read essays this year on Ancient Jew Review: www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2024/12...

the NAPS membership sign-up/renewal process has some changes this round! 1) graduated dues based on income 2) link to our standard of conduct policies 3) collecting demographic information to improve inclusion going forward!

“A good college education opens pathways for transformative achievement. And by doing so, the school inspires still more people to change their life trajectories through learning.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/o...

New podcast ep! Mike Motia interviews Blake Leyerle about what it meant for ordinary believers to live a Christian life in late antiquity? Featuring In Christians at Home: John Chrysostom and Domestic Rituals in Fourth-Century Antioch (Penn State University Press, 2024). https://buff.ly/3BUEKaO

Today on AJR, Fr. Andrew Younan writes about his new translation of Narsai's verse homilies www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2024/12... @younan.bsky.social

“Narcissists are continually looking into the mirror, painting themselves, gazing at themselves, but the best advice in front of a mirror is to laugh at ourselves. It is good for us.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/o...

I made a starter pack for specialists in Eastern Christian Studies- check it out, share with others, and let me know who else to add! go.bsky.app/8a9jSuF

Update: reading over the abstracts submitted for this session, and I’m so excited. #NAPS2025 is going to be 🔥🔥🔥

A great thread about Narsai, resources for studying him, and recent scholarship - can’t wait to get the new volume from @younan.bsky.social and teach with it! #narsai

Very exciting to see this in print - it’s real! #aarsbl2024 #narsai #syriac

Interesting reflections on our Syriac conference last spring, by some of those who were there! Read more here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur... www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ESW...

My legacey at @visithmml.bsky.social lives on! This was one of my favorite stories I wrote. Also, since bluesky is finally taking off, everyone should follow them for cool manuscript and book history content!

A little joy for the day because Ancient Jew Review is 10 Years Old! Advisory Board member Andrew Jacobs reflects upon AJR's founders and the past decade.

I started a list for Syriac Studies - please reply to be added! go.bsky.app/9sUvunP

Looking forward to reading the latest volume of Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 27 (2024) - some great articles here hugoye.bethmardutho.org/volume/27 #syriac #ethiopic #lateantiquity #earlychristianity

If you or someone you know is working on Ephrem and would be interested in presenting a paper on his Hymns on the Church at NAPS - please be in touch with me! I would be so grateful! #lateantiquity #ephrem #syriac #earlychristianity

Pope Francis casts a spotlight on the life and thought of St. Isaac of Nineveh: www.catholicnewsagency.com/amp/news/260...

here's a partial #AARSBL24 starter pack. if you're going to be part of the conversation at or around AARSBL, like this post and i'll add you! repost to signal boost! i'm hoping combos of starter packs, feeds, and hashtags will help folks connect, whether they can come or not.

Jeffrey Wickes and I have arranged a session for the annual meeting of the North American Patristics Society titled "Portraits of Holiness in Verse." The full description and link to submit a proposal may be found here: www.patristics.org/annual-meeti... #syriac #lateantiquity #earlychristianty

Our forum on the new volume of essays edited by Ivan Miroshnikov, Parabiblica Coptica, continues with a response from Jacob Lollar #coptic #apocrypha @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social @jalollar.bsky.social

Our forum on Laura Lieber's _Staging the Sacred_ concludes with a response from the author. https://buff.ly/4dj4Amo

Looking forward to the workshop "Translations in Coptic Egypt" at KU Leuven 24 June 2024 (with @danbatovici.bsky.social @greggiven.bsky.social @drkimfowler.bsky.social Luise Frenkel, and Nathan Carlig)

Our #AARSBL Forum on Jennifer Barry's Bishops in Flight: Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity concludes with a response from the author www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2023/12...

Today on AJR, Daniel Caner discusses his latest monograph, The Rich and the Poor: Philanthropy and the Making of Christian Society in Early Byzantium with Erin Walsh in our latest #conversations article @eringwalsh.bsky.social www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2024/2/...

Farewell 2023! Here are the most read articles published in AJR this year - plus top three since our founding in 2014: www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2023/12...

A new #pedagogy post from Eric J. Harvey, "Teaching Abortion in Bible and Religious Studies Courses" www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2023/11...

Part one of a two-review sequence on Nicola Denzey Lewis's recent book. Thanks to Roberto Alciati & @srollens.bsky.social for contributing! *Reminder! If you are working on early Christianity/late antiquity & want to publish at Ancient Jew Review, check out our different genres and drop me a note 🙏

Today our Early Christian and Late Ancient Studies Reading Group is hosting Prof Travis Proctor who will be speaking about his new book, Demonic Bodies and Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Literature at 4pm CDT. All are welcome - feel free to email me for the zoom voices.uchicago.edu/eclasrg/

"Dead Words and Haunting Melody," Seth Sanders shares how music, and in particular Yom Kippur liturgy, inspired his thinking about ancient texts. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2023/9/...

This week the Early Christian and Late Ancient Studies Reading Group is hosting a discussion with Dr. Jonathan Zecher about his new book - more info and a link to join our mailing list may be found here: voices.uchicago.edu/eclasrg/