If you have not yet registered, you can still register today for the SBL Annual Meeting to be held 22-25 November in Boston, MA.

Badge printing instructions have been emailed to all registrants for the Annual Meetings — be sure to print your badge before arriving in Boston! We can’t wait to welcome you to Boston for #AARSBL2025

If you have not yet registered, you can still register today for the SBL Annual Meeting to be held 22-25 November in Boston, MA.

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Phyllis Trible. We appreciate the contribution this esteemed scholar has made to the guild. buff.ly/RypG2JX

The Institute for Signifying Scriptures invites you to join our virtual seminar conversations, Scriptures Everywhere, happening the first Friday of each month at 10am PT.

If you have not yet registered, you can still register today for the SBL Annual Meeting to be held 22-25 November in Boston, MA.

We are proud to partner with Pine Street Inn. Together, we will be supporting a restaurant-style dinner service for guests residing in their emergency shelters. If you would like to join please contact [email protected].

Shabbat meals and services will be available off-site during the Annual Meetings 2025. Please contact [email protected] for more information about the meals and how to register.

Travel guidelines are available on the SBL website and will be updated as needed for members traveling to the United States for SBL related meetings and events. You are encouraged to consult these guidelines as well those issued by your home country. buff.ly/oHjHIx4

If you have not yet registered, you can still register today for the SBL Annual Meeting to be held 22-25 November in Boston, MA.

The Institute for Signifying Scriptures invites you to join our virtual seminar conversations, Scriptures Everywhere, happening the first Friday of each month at 10am PT.

Congratulations, Paul Rainbow, Megan Roberts, George Savran, and Sami Yli-Karjanmaa, on your recent publications! Rainbow: buff.ly/jBSBoJC Roberts: buff.ly/pwieER2 Savron: buff.ly/Kk6bLrn Yli-Karjanmaa: buff.ly/nGLufkQ

Congratulations, Silas Klein Cardoso, Michael Floyd, Julien M. Ogereau, and Joel Pless, on your recent publications! Cardoso: buff.ly/DGilAUR Floyd: buff.ly/ESMugnP Ogereau: buff.ly/9AAsMFn Pless: buff.ly/rVENcfy

Michael Satlow is the recipient of a 2025 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his project, “Knowledge Transmission and Cultural Interactions Among Communities Through the Ages.” Congratulations! buff.ly/C9t3tCE

Congratulations to Alexander Chantziantoniou, recipient of the Paul J. Achtemeier Award for New Testament Scholarship for his paper: “The Politics of Paul's Image Parodies: Material Epiphany, Human-Divine Reciprocity, and Social Power.” buff.ly/hgmIVlC

Congratulations to Jeremiah Coogan, recipient of the A. R. Pete Diamond Award for Integrative Scholarship for his paper “Synoptic Work: Compositional Practices, Invisible Labor, and the Synoptic Problem.” buff.ly/cGfwZes

Congratulations to International Travel Award recipients, Roxana Flammini and Ihor Kuryliak. We look forward to seeing you in Boston! For more information about SBL Awards please visit our website buff.ly/M9mbS9Y

Congratulations to Magnus Rabel and Medhat Youssef for the conferment of their doctoral degrees!

Congratulations to Robert Costello, Philip Thomas Mohr, and Joseph Mueller for the conferment of their doctoral degrees!

Read the essay “Endangered Benefaction in Galatians” by David Wyman in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

Read the essay “Roman Provincial Coinage and the Epistle to the Galatians” by Michael P. Theophilos in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

Read the essay “The Augustan Triumphal Arch and Sebasteion at Pisidian Antioch: Imperial Propaganda, the Res gestae divi Augusti, and the Epistle to the Galatians” by James R. Harrison in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

Read the essay “Any Excuse for a Party: Zeus and Hermes and Human-Divine Interactions in Asia Minor and Acts 14:8–20” by Alan H. Cadwallader in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

The Doctoral Futures Project sponsored by the ACLS with support from SBL started its work. SBL has lead responsibilities for the Pathways and Inclusion Committee that explores innovations in preparation and admissions practices for humanities PhDs.

The Call for Papers for the 16th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa is open! The conference will be held at Duke University 9-12 June 2026. Abstracts should be submitted by 01 October 2025.

Today's the day! All are invited to Biblical Public Scholars(hip) in Perilous Times, a webinar that explores shared concern of the increasing vulnerability of biblical scholars who engage in public scholarship. buff.ly/jzsmwpT.

Register Today for the SBL Annual Meeting to be held 22-25 November in Boston, MA. For more details on dates, exhibitors, schedules, and travel please go to our website or follow us on Instagram, Bluesky or LinkedIn.

Travel guidelines are available on the SBL website and will be updated as needed for members traveling to the United States for SBL related meetings and events. You are encouraged to consult these guidelines as well those issued by your home country. buff.ly/KIzNbqi

Read “‘No Longer Male and Female’ in Galatians 3:28 and Anatolian Indigenous Androgyny” by Susan M. (Elli) Elliott in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

Check out the essay “ὠδίνω in Greek Epigraphy and Galatians 4:19” by D. Clint Burnett in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

Check out the essay “Benefaction in Galatia: A Proposed Solution to the Galatian Problem” by Wesley Redgen in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

Scholars of Biblical and Related Literature welcomes proposals for the annual meeting of the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, to be held 6–8 March 2026 at the Marriott Dallas Las Colinas. The call for papers is open until 01 October 2025.

The Doctoral Futures Project sponsored by the ACLS with support from SBL started its work. SBL has lead responsibilities for the Pathways and Inclusion Committee that explores innovations in preparation and admissions practices for humanities PhDs.

All are invited to Biblical Public Scholars(hip) in Perilous Times, a webinar that explores shared concern of the increasing vulnerability of biblical scholars who engage in public scholarship. Register Today! buff.ly/jzsmwpT.

Register Today for the SBL Annual Meeting to be held 22-25 November in Boston, MA. For more details on dates, exhibitors, schedules, and travel please go to our website or follow us on Instagram, Bluesky or LinkedIn.

Read "Who Lies Beneath? Revising Paul Holloway’s Angelic Interpretation of Philippians 2:6–11" by Phillip Munoa in #JBL144.2. Your SBL membership gives you access to JBL issues when you log into the SBL site tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55

Check out the essay "The Cities of North and South Galatia in Epigraphic and Archaeological Perspective" by James R. Harrison in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

Check out the essay "The Cities of North and South Galatia in Epigraphic and Archaeological Perspective" by James R. Harrison in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

Check out the essay “Did Paul Write for Asterix? The Extent of Celtic Ethnicity in Galatia and the Audience of Galatians” by Peter Oakes in First Urban Churches 8: Galatia and Lycaonia. buff.ly/UnJ2TNx

Travel guidelines are available on the SBL website and will be updated as needed for members traveling to the United States for SBL related meetings and events. You are encouraged to consult these guidelines as well those issued by your home country. buff.ly/KIzNbqi

The Call for Papers for the 16th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa is open! The conference will be held at Duke University 9-12 June 2026. Abstracts should be submitted by 01 October 2025.

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) welcomes applications for their fellowship programs. The ACLS has more than ten open fellowships with varying award amounts, requirements, and deadlines. buff.ly/5wyIhWf

All are invited to Biblical Public Scholars(hip) in Perilous Times, a webinar that explores shared concern of the increasing vulnerability of biblical scholars who engage in public scholarship. Register Today! buff.ly/jzsmwpT.

Register Today for the SBL Annual Meeting to be held 22-25 November in Boston, MA. For more details on dates, exhibitors, schedules, and travel please go to our website or follow us on Instagram, Bluesky or LinkedIn.

Scholars of Biblical and Related Literature welcomes proposals for the annual meeting of the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, to be held 6–8 March 2026 at the Marriott Dallas Las Colinas. The call for papers is open until 01 October 2025.

Use your SBL username and password to access all the articles in #JBL144.2. tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55

Your SBL username and password gives you access to all the articles in #JBL144.2. tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55

Access all the articles in #JBL144.2 using your SBL username and password buff.ly/M9s5iXg

Read "Don’t Feel It, Don’t Heal It: Ezekiel 24:15–27 and Divine Dissociation" by Alexiana Fry in #JBL144.2 by logging in with your SBL username and password. tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55

Read Drinking as Slaughter in Obadiah 16 by Anthony R. Petterson in #JBL144.2. Use your SBL username and password to access JBL issues. tinyurl.com/a6cbyh55