The Royal Ontario Museum added thousands of objects to their only museum catalogue last year—which now totals almost 90,000 objects. My favorite remains this late antique child’s sock from Roman Egypt. 🧦 collections.rom.on.ca/objects/3736... The ancient world was full of kids and color.

The Episcopal Church has put together a very impressive toolkit for protesting, including tips for clergy in particular. Truly inspiring. This is how Christians ought to be engaging the moment. www.episcopalchurch.org/protesting-f...

It's infuriating how stupid these people are. The agency is a federal armed paramilitary occupying a whole city! Police not wearing masks and having body cameras hasn't stopped them from being abusive to the point of killing, why would that be your benchmark? More people will die with these reforms.

Know the Redescribing Christian Origins program unit in SBL? We have partnered with them for years to co-sponsor a panel at the annual meeting. Look out for a CFP for this year's shared panel soon, which will focus on studying and teaching religion under authoritarian regimes.

There shouldn’t be a Department of Homeland Security. It’s a grab bag of various agencies under a dangerously murky heading which can and now has been co-opted for a fascist transition. Abolish ICE and redistribute the other agencies.

CNN airs compilation of federal agents acting with extreme aggression towards peaceful observers.

And to add to the Classics in this week's @thetls.bsky.social , there's also Ollie Randall on Radical Antiquity! Go read

Sarah Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social wrote a fantastic book called "Strike" and my review of it for RBL was published today. Check it out! www.sblcentral.org/API/Reviews/...

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae project (125-year-long complete Latin language dictionary effort) is advertising to hire a full-stack developer in Munich (Django/React): job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...

Sat down to start the 1st chapter of my new book & someone flew in to lend a hand (a tarsus?) Oh, and if you want to learn about ancient anarchistic movements, you can’t beat @cbzeichmann.bsky.social‘s book

Its happening.

The federal government is now a southern sheriff in 1894 bsky.app/profile/pbum...

It's a damn good feeling to see a novelist put your book in a stack for research!

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

Look, everyone. This is the freedom we want to export to Venezuela.

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

It's getting closer to Christmas, so I guess it's time to repost my article on the Panthera legend. I have a book under contract that expands on the topic due out next year. In short: there is no way this particular soldier was the biological father of Jesus: www.academia.edu/42958793/Jes...

Okay the only thing I’ll say about the Compact article is field specific: the trope of “traditional” military history vs. “woke” critical theory needs to die. How could we even write about the Roman military w/o addressing colonization, empire, masculinity, trauma, ethnicity?

In the latest episode of Radicals in Conversation, Christopher B. Zeichmann joins us to talk about the radical social experimentation of escaped slaves, pirates, and religious sects in the ancient world: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll5p...

"In the first century Mediterranean world, soldiers represented the authority and order of the Roman Empire." Read Soldiers in the New Testament by Laurie Brink buff.ly/g0zET2f

Go to central Minnesota this summer and learn Ge’ez!

Join us in store this Saturday at 5pm for a book talk with Christopher B Zeichmann, author of Radical Antiquity, in conversation with Morgan D Bell! #argobookshop #indiebookstore #montreal #event #antiquity

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How do people not see that the entire OU essay thing is just an attempt by this girl and the Turning Point chapter to turn her into another Riley Gaines grifting on trying to push trans people out of society?

While your boyfriend is thinking about the Roman Empire, you're reading about the ancient anarchists who escaped it. www.plutobooks.com/product/radi...

Great SBL session on Zeichmann’s new book last weekend, and now I’m reading it Highly recommend!

This sort of belief, that Christianity is the most moral religion in human history and that it acted as a moralizing agent that "civilized savages" is sadly still a somewhat common belief among older members of even liberally minded churches like the Episcopal Church. I've heard people say this.

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I’ve never felt more seen…

So. How many of you are in trouble? interc.pt/3KhNsEp

"And I guess that’s why I hate AI in the classroom as much as I do. Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection."

Sunday, 1-3:30pm - come for the panel discussion of Radical Antiquity at the annual meeting for SBL/AAR/NAASR! @plutopress.bsky.social

$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement. It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it. www.wisn.com/article/meta...

Review of Radical Antiquity at @mstaronline.bsky.social: "This charming book is an unusually exciting and memorable text and the inclusion of very up-to-date reading lists only adds to the sense that further discoveries are yet to come. Very much recommended.” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/comm...

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🏺TOMORROW🏺 Visit @thespanielstale.bsky.social to hear @cbzeichmann.bsky.social speak about Radical Antiquity 🗓️Sun, Oct 19 ⏰6:30pm 📍The Spaniel’s Tale thespanielstale.ca/events/36533...

This weekend! Hope to see some #Ottawa faces there!

Sometimes Catholics really do go hard, still

Join me in Ottawa just over a week from now!

Odd and somewhat heartening to see my work on Superman's creation in the context of the radical Jewish Left of the 1930s & 1940s. I don't know that I would agree that there was an anti-Zionist politics in the earliest Superman stories, but this video otherwise does a good job expanding my article.

For those going to AAR/SBL in Boston next month, come join us to talk about @cbzeichmann.bsky.social’s Radical Antiquity!

And here is the full episode! Thanks again, Patrick!

Radical Antiquity is a new book that takes you on a journey in search of anarchy, statelessness, and social experimentation. Here, Christopher B. Zeichmann brings us 5 stories of anarchists from the ancient world: www.plutobooks.com/blog/five-an...

I had the pleasure of a really fun interview with @lastbornpodcast.bsky.social podcast last week and Patrick offers us a preview of the interview! If you're not sure whether you want to pick up my book or not, this will give you a taste of things. Patrick is a fantastic discussion partner!

Today on this special episode of Ancient Office Hours, Dr. @cbzeichmann.bsky.social, a New Testament scholar and lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University, to discuss his new book focused on radical groups in antiquity.

New interview about Radical Antiquity, this one at @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social - check it out! www.ozymandiasproject.com/podcast/epis...

💥BOOK EVENT💥 @cbzeichmann.bsky.social launches Radical Antiquity at TYPE Books with Colleen Shantz 🗓️Tues, Sept 30 ⏰7pm 📍TYPE Books (Queen West) 🎟https://www.instagram.com/p/DOY4Vu-jvwm/?hl=en

New blog post: Five (Underappreciated) Anarchists from Antiquity: www.plutobooks.com/blog/five-an... at the @plutopress.bsky.social blog - small sneak peak of my new book!