friends, it's an incredible honor to be part of the elizabeth a. clark lecture series at UMW. thanks so much to @jennisifire.bsky.social for the invite! i hope to see some of you VA folks next week.

A senior approached me on campus today because he recognized me — I was his Intro to Bible professor at BC during his first year, and now we’re both at UVA 🤯

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Scientist behind Trump’s Tylenol claims was paid $150K to give evidence against drug maker The Harvard academic Andrea Baccarelli gave an ‘unreliable’ testimony on the links between autism and paracetamol. www.thetimes.com/article/aa7f...

Submit your abstracts on Christian apocrypha and come hang out with us at UVA this spring!

Conference announcement/call for papers! You’ll note that there’s no theme beyond “new research on apocryphal Christian literature.” We truly just want to hear about whatever interests you most in apocryphal Christian literature right now. More info here: www.nasscal.com/meetings/

It’s Rapture Day and Bisexual Visibility Day - so if you're still here tomorrow, congratulations, you're bi and fabulous!

Looking forward to learning from this new book, ft. the work of my friend Azmeera Hammouri-Davis

My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women. It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

new EO dropped. I mean, the very first sentence is wrong: “Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

"Soit, puisque vous insitez. Mais grouillez vous car on doit tout démolir et on n'a rien à fiche des antiquités qui ne sont pas hébraïques" www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-of...

🚨CFP for #ResDiff7 is now available!🚨 Res Difficiles 7 will take place on 13th March 2026 with Dr Samuel Agbamu as our keynote speaker. Submit an abstract by 12th January 2026: resdifficiles.com/cfp/

Absolutely! Volumes of the CSWR's new series, Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T), are released concurrently as open-access PDFs and affordable, but appealing, hard copies. My book is already avail., and the next (Muller, Porphyry) will be by year's end.

My department is hiring an associate/full professor of Early Modern/Modern Jewish History. Please apply and please share within your networks. I have been told to say we're very interested in the early early modern. Note: I am not involved in the search but am happy to answer general questions.

📣Now available📣 We are pleased to announce that An Urban Roman Dump from 270+ AD (Tarraco – Carrer de Castaños, 1) by José Carlos Quaresma is now available! This book discusses the assemblages from an urban dump in order to obtain an image of consumption trends and a chronology for the context.

I made an early Christian studies group---come join! hcommons.org/groups/early...

“Paused” majors at Syracuse include Classics, Modern Jewish Studies, and Religion, as well as French, German, Italian, Russian

Gabriele Rausse Winery (ft. Gabriele Rausse in the background)

Re-upping for the weekend crowd: my book is out and I’d love to hear your thoughts/reactions/complaints!

The Association of Ancient Historians meeting will be in Iowa City from April 16-18, 2026. For those new to the AAH, we have preset panel themes; you pick 1 to apply to. The theme overall is Ancient Exchanges in a Global Antiquity. See CFP: abstracts are due by December 1. aah.conference.uiowa.edu

Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.

I am Mahmoud from Gaza the sole provider for my family of 12.😔 For weeks, I have been appealing to the world and to kind-hearted people to help my family secure the basic necessities to buy a tent and cover the costs of the forced displacement imposed on us by the army.💔 Help me🙏 gofund.me/4d8d741d

Hello, I’m Kamal from northern Gaza 💚 My family and I face severe siege—no food, water, or electricity. Our home was destroyed, and seeing our children hungry is heartbreaking. Any donation, big or small, brings food, water, and hope. Thank you for your support chuffed.org/project/kama...

The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you. www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

6th annual Erich S. Gruen Prize for best graduate student paper on multiculturalism in the ancient Mediterranean world. Deadline for submissions: September 30. Spread the word! Or, better: throw your hat in the ring!

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At 5000 followers I’m revealing the secrets of the Shepherd of Hermas (I’m at 5000 followers)

Everything is very heavy, extremely heavy on me, endless responsibilities in this ap hard times, I appreciate every single support I appreciate every repost. In this time on my life I supposed to be software engineer and endless ambitions but this world just unfair

Wait until you all see what I have planned to celebrate this fantastic news next week...

OMG YAAAAAAY WE ARE SO HYPE!!!!!

The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you. www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

Congratulations to my fellow @chancebonar.bsky.social on the publication of his new book!

Check out my new article in @traj-journal.bsky.social ! traj.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

this is tomorrow and i am so excited for my first VECSS!!

“No Kings” should include Jesus Jimmy Hoke reflects on the "No Kings" protests and considers how progressive Christians might imagine Jesus beyond kingship — as part of a democratic movement. @jimmyhoke.com @houseofhopepres.bsky.social @welcome-to-united.bsky.social 🔗: buff.ly/PTDPSyp

Author copies have arrived from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social ! At long last, I’ve achieved my dream of placing my own book in my library of books on Julian. I recorded an unboxing video so you can share the experience.

Loyola Marymount just declared its faculty union doesn’t exist anymore. Non-tenure track professors say the Catholic university walked away from bargaining talks using a religious exemption to avoid federal labor laws—something labor advocates say has never happened before.

In local news, my hometown is once again debating whether to vote for a levy to fund our subpar school district, in which only ~35% meet state math standards and less than half meet state reading standards

There has been virtually no news from Gaza in the past six hours due to a communications blackout caused by ongoing Israeli attacks. This is deeply alarming.

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

BREAKING: Judge orders Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to Algeria or Syria, alleging he omitted information from his green card application.

If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.

another set of department closures at another public flagship. i'm from WV; my heart breaks every time because i *know* what that means for students like me and my high school friends. full disclosure: i went to college out of state to a country club school with lots of money for scholarships. 1/?

Was it a bad idea to leave the martyr syllabus on the back burner in the midst of *waves hands in all directions*

This refugee student is in the final months of his dissertation after a long journey out of war. Helping him helps assure the future of Syria. There's a lot of darkness in the world right now, but this is how we bring the light. No amount is too small (or too large lol)! 🙏 💖 givebutter.com/fgQG3V

The Trump administration demanding that UCLA screen international students for their political opinions and deny the existence of trans people is a fascist move plain and simple