Come and become my new colleague: Two fully funded PhD positions (3yrs, start 9/2026) advertised at the Faculty of Theology (all disciplines) at #UniversityofCopenhagen, deadline: 16 March 2026 employment.ku.dk/phd?show=154...

“Cambridge Amplify Grant to support under-represented early career scholars from diverse backgrounds and geographic locations as they work toward the publication of their first book.”

Calling all drama professionals, drama students, and peace storytellers! We are teaming up with theatre company NMT Automatics to deliver a FREE interactive workshop on Jan 22nd @uniofstandrews.bsky.social on dramatising peace! apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/08/p...

Over at @ics.bsky.social we are on the hunt for a Lecturer in Classical Studies (Research, Training and Partnerships). This is an open-ended, open-field T&R lectureship. Please pass on the word - and consider applying if you would like to come and work with us! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Folks, I need ideas on how to promote a free English platform on ancient Judaism & NT from Germany to the English-speaking Biblical & ancient language scholars & PhD students. My thoughts: conferences, AGADE & Liverpool mailing lists, some articles on our field in JBL or EC, what else? 1/2

@josephscales.bsky.social – brings both brilliance and Norwegian fashion to the forefront! www.nrk.no/sorlandet/fa...

Two fully paid PhD positions at Lund University! One in Hebrew Bible and the other in Jewish studies, focus late antiquity. Gorgeous location and gorgeous colleagues. Don't sleep on this! (Set filter to HT to access these two in particular.) lunduniversity.lu.se/vacancies

The second is earmarked for research on ancient Christian ascetic and monastic literature from its emergence to the 6th century CE. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Come work in Bergen!

Some news: www.uia.no/forskning/fo... The Research Council of Norway has awarded me a grant to examine concepts of violence in ancient Jewish war narratives. More soon, including a postdoc position hire.

Some news: www.uia.no/forskning/fo... The Research Council of Norway has awarded me a grant to examine concepts of violence in ancient Jewish war narratives. More soon, including a postdoc position hire.

Lund's Centre for Theology and Religious Studies is advertising PhD positions in Jewish Studies, Hebrew Bible, Philosophy of Religion, and Practical Theology. Come work with us!

Happening this Friday! Anyone in the Nottingham area is welcome to join in person. Email the address at the bottom if you would like to join online.

Looking forward to participating in this

Bringing ancient and modern peace studies into dialogue... To launch the Ancient Peace Studies Network, we are hosting an inaugural workshop @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @staclassics.bsky.social 20-22 January 2026. More info here: apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/

Join us on Wednesday for the first in a series of three online workshops on Teaching Ancient War and Peace: arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/visualising-...

I have a query from a colleague looking for someone who can talk theology and politics in US Catholicism, and no names are springing immediately to mind. Any suggestions?

The University of Nottingham's latest round of financial restructuring involves suspending our Theology & Religion BA course with a view to its permanent closure. Please support our staff and students by signing this petition c.org/MQVjrMwXq8

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