Passed! Yesterday I passed my viva. Thank you to Professor Salvesen and Dr Kantor for such a wonderful conversation. Thank you to Marieke and @nathanmacdonald.bsky.social for all your support and encouragement to get me to this point!

Made it back safe and sound!

The journey begins now. Cambridge here we come!

Happy birthday Lucki! 🎂

New #openaccess Literary Papyri from the Bodleian Library and Other Collections (P.Lit.Var.) / Lucio Del Corso, Raffaele Luiselli books.fupress.com/catalogue/li... @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

New publication and open access! books.fupress.com/catalogue/li...

This is going to be so good! Perhaps required reading for future courses!

It's officially publication day! Mirah is helping me promote the book since she has served as editorial assistant from birth. If you plan to acquire a copy, use code P327 for 30% off princetonupress.bsky.social. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Now this makes sense if you don’t think about it…

Χριστός ἀνέστη!

Bio updated!

Assistant Professor Religious Studies job with Georgia Southern University, specialization in biblical studies

Regius Professorship of Divinity at University of Cambridge www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT740/r...

Wilderness wandering…

Accepted! Looking forward to seeing many of you in Boston! 🎉

I guess its official now. The Keenans are moving to Canada this summer! We are so excited to be joining the @CrandallU community! www.crandallu.ca/2025/04/16/a...

Feb 2026! 😍 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

Audiobook Giveaway! Folks, retweet and like to enter into a draw to win 1 of 2 copies of the new audiobook to *A Jewish Paul*! @tantoraudio.bsky.social

Very sad news!

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Albert Pietersma, who had a significant role in the leadership and development of the IOSCS over many years. A full obituary is available on the IOSCS website: septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/ioscs/news/84/

Viva date set for May 9! Here we go.

Abstract for the IOSCS section at SBL submitted! Co-presenting a paper with Joshua Parker (Cambridge) on a Greek origin of ἀκροβυστία. Hope we can present something cutting edge. 🤣

Just published open access "Rabbinic Evidence for the Spread of Roman Legal Education in the Provinces" by Yair Furstenberg This looks fantastic! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Thanks for sharing @ioscs.bsky.social! We are still so excited to have announced our new series!

New book series from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social: Studies on the Septuagint within the History of Greek www.degruyter.com/serial/sshg-...

Lecturer in Hebrew Bible job opening at King's College London

🚨 NEW MONOGRAPH SERIES ON THE SEPTUAGINT WITHIN THE HISTORY OF GREEK 🚨 massive congrats to Klaas Bentein, Marieke Dhont, Trevor Evans, Andrew Keenan, and Robert Walker for putting together what is sure to be a – nay, *the*? – go-to series on all things septuagint.

🚨news I am very pleased to be able to finally share that Robert Walker and I have 2 related projects in the works. First I am so excited that Robert and I alongside Trevor Evans, Marieke Dhont, and Klaas Bentein have launched a new Septuagint series through @degruyterbrill.bsky.social.

Tyndale House is looking for a Library Assistant to start as soon as possible. tyndalehouse.com/jobs/library... #jobs #jobvacancy #tyndale_house #librarian

This massive "Festschrift" in two volumes with almost 2,000 pages honours the exceptional and pioneering scholarship of Geoffrey Khan. Some of our former and current members have also contributed articles (#OpenAccess): ⬇️

The Beginning and End of Philosophy existentialcomics.com/comic/593

Some really interesting stuff in here!!

Wow! These volumes look tremendous. Two volume Festschrift! A real testament to the depth and breadth of his contributions.

Happy #worldbookday! This is what’s on my to do list.

The British New Testament Society is now on Bluesky!

Just published from Bruce Longenecker! This looks fantastic! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ha!! Start calling him Governor Trump too?

"Neologism" of the day: WhatsAppitis - physical injuries and pain relating to overuse of the popular social messaging app WhatsApp (From 2014, but has recently resurfaced)

Viva will be in late April or early May…

Pottery evidence for Egyptians at Megiddo in Josiah's time

From Jenny Cromwell on the bird site! “New Oxyrhynchus papyrus database! You can search for images, publications, current projects, and explore the exhibitions page that provides background to the site, its texts + history, etc. It's looking great!” oxyrhynchus.web.ox.ac.uk/home

Ran into this on the bird site; thought folks here might be interested. Open access book, "Linguistic Theory and the Biblical Text". williamaross.com/2023/09/25/b...

I feel this!

wake up, new Indo-European language just dropped. “the Hittite ritual text refers to the new idiom as the language of the land of Kalašma.” www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

Every time I feel like I am including too many memes in my lecture slides, I add more.

Can I tell you why this text matters? Narrowly, it's an example of abstract use of the ἐκ X εἰς Y construction (re: the SOURCE-PATH-GOAL image schema). Big picture, though its about how digital humanities can never have enough richly tagged text. Let me explain... 🧵

The Postclassical Greek Network just announced their second conference which will take place October 12-14. A link for remote attendance will be provided serveral days in advance! More info here: www.lit.auth.gr/en/tcgll_01