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Just published: Marieke Dhont, ed., T&T Clark Handbook of Hellenistic Jewish Literature in Greek (T&T Clark: 2025) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tt-clark-...

Join us in London in July! CALL FOR PAPERS NOW LIVE #BIAJS2026 “Space and place in Jewish studies” 13-15 July Birkbeck bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2025/11/03/c...

Every Halloween, I share my spookiest article: works.hcommons.org/records/fayf...

Working some more on this today. Does anyone have anything they think I should cover in an introduction workshop? I’m closing with a big list of recent books publications so please promote away

Second Temple Early Career Academy Autumn 2025 Events (online) stecaonline.wordpress.com @stecacareers.bsky.social

Is anyone who’s familiar with SBL citation style interested in a small copy editing gig? A dissertating friend of mine needs some help going through footnotes to keep her sanity.

@tbsailors.bsky.social I’ve had a bounce-back email for the address I had for you, do you have an updated email?

I have just accepted a position as a postdoctoral fellow in Ancient Studies (with the Ancient World research group) at @unibergen.bsky.social. I'm hugely excited and looking forward to moving up there and getting started in the new year. More details on the project to follow next year

I have just accepted a position as a postdoctoral fellow in Ancient Studies (with the Ancient World research group) at @unibergen.bsky.social. I'm hugely excited and looking forward to moving up there and getting started in the new year. More details on the project to follow next year

I’ll be running an online introduction to Josephus in November. Sign up if you have interest or pass on to students if you think they might

For some (glorious) reason this is now open access. Please enjoy the content as well as the title

A temporary solution to try and limit academia[dot]edu taking my work for AI development and other commercial uses. I think I saw someone suggest this yesterday but have forgotten who.

A lot of the terms also specify use of materials for AI generation. I think I’ll remove what’s on there this week although perhaps the data has already been plundered

Anyone have any suggestions for scholarship on Philo’s discussion of slavery in Every Good Person Is Free?

I have a now venue-less book review for one of the recent Josephus commentary volumes. Does anyone know of a good place for this or should I just self publish it on Knowledge Commons and/or zenodo?

I have a now venue-less book review for one of the recent Josephus commentary volumes. Does anyone know of a good place for this or should I just self publish it on Knowledge Commons and/or zenodo?

A house being dark and spooky doesn’t make it haunted

As part of my Dead Sea Scrolls class at the seminary, they asked my to try to connect my class to the topic of (modern) social justice. I never really thought about this: does anyone know any good resources?

And here it is, my greatest article title to date: “The Booty Call: Plundering as (Dis)assemblage in the Book of Judith.” Here Katia and I get into a range of meanings that plunder and artefact manipulation for Judith’s capture and dedication of Holofernes’ items brill.com/view/journal...

And here it is, my greatest article title to date: “The Booty Call: Plundering as (Dis)assemblage in the Book of Judith.” Here Katia and I get into a range of meanings that plunder and artefact manipulation for Judith’s capture and dedication of Holofernes’ items brill.com/view/journal...

Re-upping in case anyone wanted any more tidbits from my relatively niche interests

My author’s copy has arrived from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social . Very nice to see in person. I wrote an entry with Laura Quick on developments in women’s ritual bathing in ancient Judaism.

Having enjoyed a few such threads, let’s do a “for every like I’ll post something I find interesting about ancient Judaism” thread.

Forty is a nice number to have done, but I could easily do forty more…

On these last two points, see my recent article "From Togas to Turbans: Jewish Male Head Coverings between the Roman and Sasanian Worlds," free download here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Having enjoyed a few such threads, let’s do a “for every like I’ll post something I find interesting about ancient Judaism” thread.

My contribution to the EBR’s entry on Place, Space is now available (at least to me as an author). I give a brief overview of the theme from concepts to some examples in Second Temple Jewish literature www.degruyterbrill.com/database/EBR...

The STECA bluesky account is live now - thank you, Tupá @tupaguerra.bsky.social ! Follow Second Temple Early Career Academy blusky for news and activities: @stecacareers.bsky.social

What did Jesus wear—and why does it matter? Join @katieturnerphd.com for a deep dive into 2nd Temple period Jewish clothing and how dress shaped identity, power, and piety in Jesus’s world. Live online talk. Register here: www.religiondepartment.com/jesus-wear

Are you new-ish to academic conferences? Good etiquette and honest reflection help ensure a good conference presentation. This blog is slightly old but I meet new PhDs every year: t.co/JlLjTr4ctW

Article eight: Susanna and Callirhoe www.lectio.unibe.ch/de/archiv/jo...

Next week I'll be giving a live webinar on "What Did Jesus Wear?" for Religion for Breakfast. Come along for a fun intro to the wonderful world of ancient textiles, Jewish dress behaviour, and why knowing about any of this matters. 21 July @ 9:30am EST. Register at the link below

Delighted to have my first book review from George Brooke in the SOTS book list for my Galilean Spaces of Identity brill.com/display/titl... “It is a major achievement in updating the discourse about the diverse character of Jewish ways of living in Galilee in the three centuries before… 70 CE.”

I am seeking academic and sectoral partners to join a consortium for a Horizon (EU) 2025 funding bid for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network focused on Jewish Cultural Heritage. #Jewish #Heritage #Museums #Tourism #Culture www.b2match.com/e/radiance-m...

I’m at the airport en route to #EABSBL, so it feels like the perfect time to send a copy of my book, Reimaging the Magdalene, on a journey too! 💛 like and 🔁 RT and I’ll draw a winner on the feast of Mary Mag (22/07, heathens) Let’s see where it ends up… #Giveaway

I've just published an open-access article about the best teaching techniques for Biblical Hebrew: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Sadly Nottingham's Biblical Hebrew programme is under threat, but you can sign a petition to save it here: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...

Hey, does anyone have access to this?

Are you a scholar of religion with a passion for public scholarship? Want to share your work with an enthusiastic, global audience hungry for deeper learning? We’re inviting scholars to give lectures in a live Zoom series hosted by Religion for Breakfast. More here! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Random book rabbithole of the day: Can anyone point me towards scholarship Roman soldiers and wills?

Det ser ut som en tysk konferanse

Tomorrow! #STECA25 Second Temple Early Career Academy online short papers. Keynote by the wonderful Charlotte Hempel. I'm giving a paper on Ben Sira. Register for the zoom link. aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Goodbye my two year streak. It was a helpful supplement to my language learning but dra i helvete med dette valget

Me: Depending on who you ask, the gap and dash mark is to signal a new section, indicate the conjunction of two sources, or hop over an imperfection in the surface of the material. I’ve never seen anything else in the corpus quite like it. I ultimately don’t have a good answer

As we sneak towards the end of term/semester, it’s a great time to look back at books that have been useful for your teaching this academic year. They can be old favourites or new staples, but please share some of the books and articles that have helped you this year! ⤵️

Roman Historian friends—wondering if you can help me out here on the Julio-Claudian dynasty. I’m researching Antonia the Younger and wondering what you consider the most primary discussions of her? Thinking along the lines of major monographs or pivotal sources on her.

Can anyone point me to anything written on the significance that the host in Judges 19 is an “old man”? Maybe @alexianafry.bsky.social ?

The skeetings will continue until morale improves

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