Our #forum on Virginia Burrus' Earthquakes and Gardens: Saint Hilarion’s Cyprus continues with an essay from Robert Paul Seesengood

The AJR book review #forum on Earthquakes and Gardens: Saint Hilarion’s Cyprus by Virginia Burrus (University of Chicago Press, 2023) continues with an essay from Midori Hartman

Our AJR #forum on Earthquakes and Gardens: Saint Hilarion’s Cyprus by Virginia Burrus (University of Chicago Press, 2023) continues with an essay from John Penniman @historiographos.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/4/...

This week on AJR, a book review forum on Virginia Burrus' Earthquakes and Gardens: Saint Hilarion’s Cyprus from the 2025 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society. We begin with an introduction from Peter Anthony Mena www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/4/...

Today on AJR, Tyler Blaine Wilson reviews Mark Goodacre's latest, The Fourth Synoptic Gospel: John’s Knowledge of Matthew, Mark, and Luke @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social @goodacre.bsky.social

A new post on AJR! Morgan Hundley reviews Seneca’s Affective Cosmos: Subjectivity, Feeling, and Knowledge in the Natural Questions and Beyond by Chiara Graf (Oxford University Press, 2024)

Today on AJR: Ethan Laster reviews Georgia Frank's Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023) #lateantiquity

New pod! Mike talks to Derek Krueger about Monastic Desires If you're enjoying the show, please rate and review podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... open.spotify.com/episode/4K5E...

Simcha Gross shares insights into Talmud scholarship and the shift toward historical considerations. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/3/...

New essay in a forum on Bavli studies from Yitz Landes, who brings Book History to the study of the Talmud's reception. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/3/...

We are publishing the 2025 AJS panel devoted to Bavli Studies, kicking off with Alyssa Gray's suggestion for a dual agenda of formation and reception.

New pod! Mike talks with Jake Nabel about The Arsacids of Rome podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j... open.spotify.com/show/6uGXkAl...

Today on AJR, D. Clint Burnett reviews the edited volume, Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, Volume V: Galilaea and Northern Regions @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/12...

Today Jodi Magness takes us through her career and offers a retrospective on the significance of archaeology to the study of the ancient world.

New pod! Mike talks with Moulie Vidas about The Rise of Talmud podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... open.spotify.com/episode/3iFZ...

A new publication preview of “Listen to the Sibyl”: The History, Poetics, and Reception of Sibylline Oracles (Brill, 2026).

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New review of Berkovitz, A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity out today!

New pod! Beth Berkowitz on What Animals Teach Us About Families podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... open.spotify.com/show/6uGXkAl...

New publication preview from Beth Berkowitz! Learn more of the vegan ethics that motivated What Animals Teach Us about Families: Kinship and Species in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature.

Missed any of AJR's forum "Secondary Scholarship"? Then catch up this weekend! The series highlights experiences of academics who have found a home teaching and researching in high schools. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/1/25/secondary-scholarship-teaching-amp-researching-in-secondary-education

AJR's forum, "Secondary Scholarship," closes today with a reflection from Religious Studies scholar Elena Dugan, who shares how her journey to and through a private secondary boarding school has made her a "braver, more curious scholar." www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/1/...

New pod! Mike talks with Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga about The Chronicle of John of Nikiu. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... open.spotify.com/show/6uGXkAl...

AJR's forum, "Secondary Scholarship," highlighting the experiences of academics working in high school contexts, continues today with a reflection by Del A. Maticic describing a snow day spent in the life of a Classicist-turned-High-School-English-Teacher. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/1/...

AJR's forum on teaching and researching in high school contexts, "Secondary Scholarship," continues today with a piece from Religious Studies scholar Alex Kocar, who currently teaches at The Lawrenceville School, a private boarding school in New Jersey. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/1/...

Today on AJR we begin a forum on the experience of academics who have chosen to teach in secondary education. Classicist Jonathan Warner kicks off the forum, "Secondary Scholarship," with his reflection on teaching Latin in a public high school. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/1/...

Catch up on the latest posts from AJR: the full #forum on the new translation of Origen's Contra Celsum is now available:

In the final installment of our forum on Origen's Contra Celsum, Samuel Pomeroy writes about "Origen as Political Theologian"

Today on AJR: Mark Randall James contributes to our forum on a new translation of Origen's Contra Celsum, "Contra Celsum as Socratic Philosophy"

Our forum on the new translation of Origen's Contra Celsum continues with a piece from David Satran, "Plato, Politics, and Faith" #lateantiquity #Origen www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/9/...

New pod! Mike talks to Christopher Bonura about A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination If you're liking the show, please rate and review! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... open.spotify.com/show/6uGXkAl...

Our forum on Origen's Contra Celsum continues with a piece from Teresa Morgan, "In Defense of Celsus" www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/9/...

Our forum on Celsus' Contra Celsum continues with an article from Robin Darling Young, "Contra Celsum from Caesarea to Constantinople: The Travels of a Byzantine Book"

Today on AJR, we begin a forum on the preparation of a new translation of Origen's Contra Celsum with a piece by one of the translators, Joseph Trigg: www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/9/... #lateantiquity #Origen

New pod! Mike talks to Susanna Elm about The Importance of Being Gorgeous

New pod! Mike talks to Johannes Zachhuber and Anna Marmodoro about Gregory of Nyssa's On the Hexaemeron open.spotify.com/show/6uGXkAl... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

New pod! Mike talks to Susan Harvey about Ministries of Song podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... open.spotify.com/show/6uGXkAl... And if you're enjoying the show: subscribe, rate, and review. It helps others find us!

New pod! Mike talks to Maia Kotrosits about After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Late Antiquity

New at AJR! Herman Arnolus Manoe engages Candida Moss' God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/godsghostwriters

Traveling to Boston for SBL on Friday? Join Models of Piety (an association of scholars for religion in late antiquity) at an informal happy hour at the Lenox hotel from 5-6pm.

Today on AJR: a #publications article from Ian N. Mills on his new book, The Hypothesis of the Gospels: Narrative Traditions in Hellenistic Reading Culture #newtestament @iannelsonmills.bsky.social @fortresspress.bsky.social

Did you miss any part of the review forum featuring Yosefa Raz's The Poetics of Prophecy? Find every essay here:

We conclude our review forum on Yosefa Raz's _The Poetics of Prophecy_ with a response from the author. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11/2/response

Are you planning your SBL 2025 schedule? Check out the lineup of panels from the Rabbinic Literature and Culture section.

Putting together my schedule for AAR/SBL, and this is literally the first thing on it---if you're there on Friday, friends, come on out!

Our review forum of Yosefa Raz's _The Poetics of Prophecy_ continues with a contribution from Raphael Magarik. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11/2/review-of-yosefa-raz-the-poetics-of-prophec

In May, Jonathan Klawans published a piece in AJR calling for the retraction of published Dead Sea Scroll fragment forgeries. One volume has officially heeded his call: www.bloomsbury.com/us/gleanings...

Today's contribution to the Raz forum is written by Karma Ben-Jonanan. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11/2/modern-mirrors

We are pleased to host a forum for Yosefa Raz's 2024 book, _The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition._ Today's post is a review by Yael Fisch. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11/2/review-of-yosefa-raz-the-poetics-of-prophecy-modern-afterlives-of-a-biblical-tradition

Today on AJR, Alex P. Jassen previews his new book exploring the diverse ways social contestation and violence were perceived and imagined by the Dead Sea Scrolls Sectarians! www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/10...