If you're hankering for a taste of what my new book "The Authentic Paul" is all about, the front matter and Introduction are now available open access! www.mqup.ca/filebin/pdf/... @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

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A free chapter of my book, The Bibles of the Far Right, is currently available! academic.oup.com/book/59602/c...

We've got 13 new books out this month! Check out the full list: buff.ly/hZdxuNA

Dropping in June 2025 with @oupprimary.bsky.social in the Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean series.

If you're hankering for a taste of what my new book "The Authentic Paul" is all about, the front matter and Introduction are now available open access! www.mqup.ca/filebin/pdf/... @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

Curious about the connection between philology and heresiology in Roman antiquity? Do you wonder why everyone hated Marcion? www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/a... Thanks @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social for the chance to explore these questions!

Challenging philological and critical understandings of authenticity, The Authentic Paul tells the story of numerous critical scholars, from antiquity to the modern period, who have laboured to make a book of Paul’s letters free from textual variation and forgery. buff.ly/nNkVMjQ

From Religious Studies at York Twitter account: The administration at York University has suspended admissions to the Religious Studies program . . . The faculty have written this statement. We ask you to will distribute it widely and write to York's administration to protest this decision.

Here's why I think you should read @robertamazza.bsky.social 's newest book "Stolen Fragments" - published in the Review of Biblical Literature www.sblcentral.org/home/bookDet...

Honoured and excited to be part of this conversation at #aarsbl25 ! Time to move beyond the status quo on the authorship/authenticity of the Pauline epistles 📨

Forthcoming from OUP, early 2025 (featuring Peter from GA 1751)

Coming April 15, 2025, but now available for pre-order! www.mqup.ca/authentic-pa... @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

Posted purely for the PHOTOGRAPH of an ACTUAL SABER-TOOTH KITTEN

Tired of the Zionist highjacking + butchering of ancient & medieval Palestinian history? We got you covered: #EOPalestine offers 20 short, clear & myth-busting posts from an international group of scholars. Enjoy! 🔗 everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/eopalestine/

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📢 Expect to see a special issue on early Christian authorship in the first 2025 volume of "Early Christianity," edited mea manu! With contributions of the viri mulieresque illustres, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, @danbatovici.bsky.social, @worldlyscribe.bsky.social, @gpfewster.bsky.social, and myself

How did so many Egyptian antiquities end up at @romtoronto.bsky.social ? We know a little more about this process now thanks to two letters of BP Grenfell, which I have now published and contextualized. Have a read: doi.org/10.3138/mous... #museums #archaeology #papyrology #antiquities #oxyrhynchus

oooh STOLEN FRAGMENTS coming this fall from Roberta Mazza! www.amazon.com/Stolen-Fragm...

Join us next week to think about overlapping libraries and moving texts in late antiquity!

How are Antiquity scholars and organizations responding to Israel's campaign of annihilation of Gaza’s past, present and future? For some insights, check out the archive I assembled ahead of tomorrow's Res Difficiles conference everydayorientalism.wordpress.com?p=5812&previ...

An article on an 18th-century handwritten manuscript of Voltaire’s French translations of apocrypha & other related works coming your way soon… I hope….

Inky paw print on a sherd from Thebes, Egypt, recording Maieuris paid their taxes at around 94 CE. I've flipped the image so the paw print is facing up & the text is inverted. My guess is this was a cat, it's a cat kinda thing to do no? But I'm not an expert. 6.5x6.4cm #MuseumWork #RomanEgypt #Cats

It's out! Early Christianity just published a special issue on Pseudepigraphy built from a colloquium I hosted last February thanks to a grant from the @britishacademy.bsky.social and @leverhulme.bsky.social. It includes +

Grateful to @kelsbot.bsky.social for the invitation to participate in a fantastic workshop last year on pseudepigraphy in the ancient Mediterranean, which is now a special journal issue! Check out the other great contributions too (Early Christianity 14.4)

Joining the other wonderful contributors to @kelsbot.bsky.social's Early Christianity special issue "Perceptions of Pseudepigraphy across the Ancient Mediterranean", I'm really happy to have this piece included. I'll also be very glad to DM any interested folks a PDF.

Honored to be included among esteemed colleagues in @kelsbot.bsky.social's special issue of Early Christianity, "Perceptions of Pseudepigraphy across the Ancient Mediterranean." Let me know if you need a PDF and I'll be happy to send one your way—whenever I myself manage to download it 🙃

Aldine edition of the Ancient Greek Epistolographers: special number of the Bulletin of the John Rylands library: out now … and soon to appear online

A couple years old now, but if you are into incorporating material artifacts into your teaching on ancient religion, this should interest you! everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2021/10/08/a...

New Journal of Religion incl Yaniv Feller on “The Specter of Marcion: Decanonizing the Old Testament in Twenty-First-Century Germany” www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...