Early career scholars in religious studies: Consider applying for the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise! The deadline for the 2027 Award is June 15, 2026. The Award is given to 10 scholars, and each receives a prize of € 3,000. More details: fiit-heidelberg.de/awards/laute...

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Gerard Rouwhorst, editor of the journal and series Vigiliae Christianae. His brilliance and kindness will be dearly missed, and our thoughts are with his family in this difficult moment. 3eenheidparochie.nl/2026/01/09/b...

📜 A Holistic Reading of Chronicles with a Samoan Hermeneutic 🌏 By Samasoni Moleli Alama. An extensive and scientific study re-reading Jabez’s story from the perspective of #Chronicles as a whole, in conversation with similar realities in #Samoa. 🌺 🔗 brill.com/display/ti...

Very pleased that I decided to work from the office today - walking the snowy banks of Leiden's Polderpark Cronesteyn, right across from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, is a rare treat. Happy new year!

📚 10 highlights from 2025 ✨ The year is coming to a close – a perfect chance to show off some of the books published this year in our #Religion, #Bible and #Theology program! 📜 Let's dive right in… 🧵

🎉 Congratulations, @josephscales.bsky.social! If you also can't wait to see what Dr. Scales does next, why not dive into his previous work? ⬇️ 📗 Galilean Spaces of Identity 🔗 brill.com/display/titl... 📜 The Booty Call: Plundering as (Dis)Assemblage in the Book of Judith 🔗 doi.org/10.1163/1568...

Writing a piece on the Historical Jesus? The "Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus" is the right place for your work. Consider submitting your work here: 🔗https://brill.com/jshj #callforpapers

Only one month to go until the Annual Meeting of @sblsite.bsky.social & @aarweb.bsky.social 🎉 We’re excited to see you all in #Boston on 22-25 November to share ideas and show off our latest publications. Will we see you at booth #619? 📚 #AARSBL #SBL2025 #AcRel 📜

Out now! 📚 Moleli Alama’s Holistic Reading of Chronicles with a Samoan Hermeneutic 🌏 This strikingly original work discusses themes of land tenure, sovereignty & the divine, engaging with Chronicles while firmly grounded in the Pacific context. 📜Read more:🔗 brill.com/display/ti... #AcRel #Samoa

🎧 New podcast alert! 📢 Our author Cooper Smith spoke with Michael Morales of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about allusion and the Elihu speeches in Job. Listen to the episode here: 🔗 newbooksnetwork.com/... And read the book: 🔗 brill.com/display/ti... 📜 #BiblicalStudies #AcRel

📜 Why a ‘New Testament’? 🤔 Levi Baker explores how and why first-century Christians began receiving recent Christian texts as ‘Scripture’, on par with the Old Testament. Have you also always wondered the same? Read more here ⬇️ 🔗 brill.com/display/ti... #AcRel #EarlyChristianity

🎉 Out now! 📕 Travel among Early Christians by Jason Borges traces how travel and movement between churches functioned as a formative practice for group identity in early Christian communities. Read more here ⬇️ 🔗https: //brill.com/display/ti... 📜 #AcRel #EarlyChristianity

🎉 New volume in Brill's #Digital #BiblicalStudies series! 📗 Paul Robertson and a team of experts demonstrate the utility of statistical and computational approaches to the study of Paul’s letters. 💻 Dive right in ⬇️ 🔗 brill.com/display/ti...#Digital#BiblicalStudies📜 #AcRel #NewTestament #DigitalHumanities

Out in hardcover today! 🔗 brill.com/display/titl...

On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, I am very saddened to hear of the passing of Prof. Jordan S. Penkower (פרופ' יצחק שרגא פנקובר ז"ל), esteemed bible scholar and author. Our thoughts are with his family. ת.נ.צ.ב.ה.

Our author @mmonier.bsky.social has received his copies of "When Jesus Rose Early", and we couldn’t be more excited! You don’t need to wait to read it – it’s available to all in #OpenAccess! 📚📜 🔗 brill.com/display/titl...

📚🎉Now also out in print! Get your hardcover here: 🔗 brill.com/display/titl... @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @mmonier.bsky.social #criticalbible #OpenAccess #AcRel

📢New release! 📜 John Healey presents a re-edition and translation of 3rd-century #Syriac legal parchments from Upper Mesopotamia, with extensive commentary. These documents constitute our earliest significant evidence of the Syriac language and script. 🔗 brill.com/display/titl... #acrel #Aramaic

🎉 New publication! 📚 Memory Formation in Isaiah 40–55 📜 Megan C. Roberts explores the phenomenon of collective memory and its connection to comfort in Second Isaiah’s poetry. 🔗 brill.com/display/titl... #acrel #biblicalstudies #memorystudies

🎉 New #OpenAccess publication! 📚📜 In "When Jesus Rose Early", @mmonier.bsky.social utilizes the full potential of the digital revolution in manuscript research to study text and paratexts in the Gospel of Mark. Hardcover out Aug 28th; #OA e-book out now: 🔗 brill.com/display/titl...

Did you know that @katherinesouthwood.bsky.social is the new series editor of our Biblical Interpretation series? We’re seeking proposals - especially those engaging with new methodologies and hermeneutics! Got a book idea or manuscript ready? Get in touch with me! www.brill.com/BINS

Or if you're at #SNTS2025 this week, check it out here. 😉

📢New release! 📗📜 Athanasios Despotis offers a detailed commentary on Jesus's long speeches in John 1-12, revealing how the Gospel of John engages with the religious and philosophical discourses of its time. Check it out here: brill.com/display/titl... #criticalbible #AcRel #NewTestament

New publication! 🎉Constructing Femininity in the Book of Jubilees 🙋‍♀️ 📕 Chontel Syfox interrogates the motives and priorities that informed the rewriting and heightened visibility of the matriarchs in Jubilees. Curious? Read more here: brill.com/display/titl... #biblicalstudies #AcRel #genderstudies

🎙️ New podcast drop! Just out on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social an interview with Beth M. Stovell on her monograph "Mapping Metaphorical Discourse in the Fourth Gospel" (🔗brill.com/display/ti...). 🎧Listen to the interview here: newbooksnetwork.com/... #NewEpisode

☀️ Summer #sale at De Gruyter Brill! Save 40% on our books and eBooks through August. Whether you're prepping for fall courses or expanding your personal library, now's the perfect time to save big. Browse our recommended reads and get shopping now! 🔗 marketing.degruyterbrill.com/summersale20...

Very exciting new release – and in Open Access no less! 🔗 brill.com/display/titl... 📜 #biblicalstudies #AcRel #SBL #CriticalBible

Coming soon in Open Access (release date this July)! brill.com/display/titl...

New from BINS 📕 Harrowing the Gospels 🌾 Kristofer Coffman engages in a unique Cambodian (American) reading of agriculture and agrarian life in the Gospels. Read more here ⬇️ brill.com/display/titl... #postcolonial #biblicalstudies #AcRel @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Navigating the World of Academic Book Publishing (AO25-200) Join De Gruyter Brill editor Aaron Sanborn-Overby in a tour through the book publishing landscape, covering topics from proposals to AI tools and more. This is a session at the AAR Online conference. Link 🔗 eppro01.ativ.me/appi...

Another new volume from VCS 🎉💙 John C. Solheid’s “Pedagogy of the Heart” presents a detailed and accessible analysis of the recently discovered Greek “Homilies on the Psalms” preached by Origen in the late 240s CE. Check it out here! ⬇️ brill.com/display/titl... #ISBL #EABS #AcRel #Theology #SBL

New from VCS 🎉 “Reincarnation in Clement of Alexandria” 🔄 Against international scholarly consensus, Sami Yli-Karjanmaa finds Clement’s position on reincarnation to be one of acceptance. Curious to know more? Check out the book here ⬇️ brill.com/display/titl... #ISBL #EABS #AcRel #Theology #SBL

🆕 Fresh from the printers! 5 volumes of our "Formulation and Interpretation of #OldTestament Literature" series are now available in #paperback! 🔗https://brill.com/page/fiot #CriticalBible #BiblicalStudies #aarsbl #sblaar #eabs

🎉New from VCS 📘 Papers presented at the Third International Conference on Clement of Alexandria, focused on the Paedagogus and its surprisingly profound theological undercurrents. Check it out here: brill.com/display/titl... #AcRel #BiblicalStudies #Classics @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social

📘 Nothing to read? A new issue of #NovumTestamentum just dropped — with several #openaccess articles! Browse it here: shorturl.at/e2hsX. #BiblicalStudies #NewTestament #aarsbl #sblaar

NEW edited volume from TSEC 📗 10 leading scholars explore the works and legacy of Dionysius bar Ṣalībī, 12th-cent. bishop dubbed the "Guardian of the Syriac Orthodox Tradition". Read more here: brill.com/display/titl... #CriticalBible #BiblicalStudies #AcRel #Syriac @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social

New issue of Vigiliae Christianae Vol. 79, No. 3 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social

If you'd like to learn more about the Encyclopedia of Early Christianity or get your own copy of the set (or the e-version), see our website for details! brill.com/display/seri... #NAPS2025

We're at #NAPS2025 in Chicago! Come by the De Gruyter Brill booth to say hello and check out our latest releases. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social

🆕📖 Textentstehung und Texttradition im Numeribuch by Kirsten M. Schäfers. Volume 9 of "Supplements to the Textual History of the Bible" offers new insights on non-linearity, variance & tradition in the Pentateuch. Check it out ⬇️ 🔗 brill.com/display/titl... #BiblicalStudies

🆕📚 Studies on the Children of Abraham ➡️ Green and Laato et al study the Jewish and Christian reception of Genesis and how concepts of “universalism” and “particularism” are used in the Noah, Abraham and Jacob stories #biblicalstudies #AcRel brill.com/display/titl... @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social

🆕In “Early Christianity on the Lower Maeander”, Ulrich Huttner explores the religious authorities in the microcosm of the Maeander Valley (Asia Minor), and the conditions under which the Christian communities developed from the 1st to 5th centuries brill.com/display/titl... #BiblicalStudies #AcRel

🆕📚 Alicia Hein’s “The Prophet Is the People” offers a literary analysis of the Elijah texts in the Hebrew Bible and early Jewish and Christian literature, tracing the development of the Elijah tradition and the progression of its early interpretation #biblicalstudies #AcRel brill.com/display/titl...

📚 New Series Alert! We've just launched the series "The Gnostic Imagination", edited by April D. DeConick & Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta. Interested in submitting a proposal? Find out more about the series here: 🔗 brill.com/tgi

New in STAS 📕 “Studies in Targum Isaiah: Textual Witnesses, Translation Techniques, and Theological Explorations” by Alberdina Houtman is the culmination of 30 years of in-depth research into Targum studies @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social brill.com/display/titl... #CriticalBible #sblaar #aramaic

Come work with us! We’re hiring a Jr Acquisitions Editor for Early Christianity in Leiden, NL. de-gruyter.onlyfy.jobs/job/vjq9tidh... @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @loesschouten.bsky.social #CriticalBible #sblaar #AcRel

New 📖 from LBS 🎉 “The Prestige Language of Christianity in the Book of Acts”. Sung Min Park applies sociolinguistics to understand early Christian communities and their linguistic practices. brill.com/display/titl... #CriticalBible #sblaar #BiblicalStudies #AcRel @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social

🎙️ New Podcast Alert! Just dropped: Jonathan Bryant's "Compassion and the Characterization of the Markan Jesus." Join us as we explore how compassion shapes the portrait of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark. 🎧 Tune in here: tinyurl.com/yry2ccwy. #Podcast #BiblicalStudies #Theology #aarsbl #sblaar

🆕 TSEC 📗 Divine Participation 🙏 Wagdy Samir examines humankind’s union with God by two fathers, Cyril of Alexandria and Matta al-Miskīn, in their commentaries on the Gospel of John. brill.com/display/titl... #CriticalBible #sblaar #BiblicalStudies #AcRel @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social