another one bites the dust

So, I think the (professional) copy editor has introduced a number of grammatical errors into my manuscript - presumably caused by not understanding the sentence, and possible prompted by an AI grammar checker. 1/

proofs day! (first article on Luke, hopefully not the last - although unlike @dorhamidbar.bsky.social I don't already have a prequel lined up)

is it me or has LOEB online gone up in price dramatically? I am no longer allowed to buy it in USD, but have to buy in pounds or Euro.

AI is not powerful enough to dominate. Right now a lot of its biggest investors are panicking because it doesn't work as promised. So they're trying to offload their debt onto consumers by making AI seem inevitable. It's a Ponzi scheme, and once they get their money back the marketing will stop.

new blogs in the theology/bible space xenos-theology.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-fr...

book recommendations wanted please: what are the key important eco-theology / creation care books / resources that a theological library should have in stock?

great thread. obrigado!

Draft of an AI statement for future syllabi (building on what others have done & shared)

I never really researched Nuremberg, so I was unaware until today that the famous “Nuremberg Defense” (“we were just following orders”) was not, in fact, the only defense offered by Nazi criminals at Nuremberg. (1/5)

need to sample this for a bass synth! also, yay for kākāpō!

Far out. 400 Euro for a monograph (even as Ebook) - new level of lunacy reached or is this tariffs?

Book Review ouch: "There is a basic historiographical nettle here which Strelan refuses to grasp, or grasps so weakly that he comes away badly stung." 1/3

yep. i don't care how many crimes a person has committed this kind of punishment is a crime against humanity. there should be heavy sanctions from right thinking nations against the USA and El Salvador over this.

My latest uninvited intervention in Pauline Scholarship. 😜 (link in next skeet)

Frank Cole Babbitt in 1936 forgot that when translating Plutarch's Greek into English, the English should be easier to read than the Greek!

genius. this needs an update to include the use of AI. possibly on the topic of Vegetative Electron Microscopy. Happy Birthday Tom.

The Revelation Reception Network has a website!

no, you cannot rely on public domain translations from yesteryear where the translator was more concerned with his rhyming scheme than the meaning of the Greek. Monograph citing Athenaeus's Ἄρτεμιν, ἃ γυναικῶν μέγ᾿ ἔχει κράτος but relying on Yonge's 1854 translation. 🤦‍♂️

Archaeoethnologica: Conversing with Chaos in Antiquity - Book / Conversando com o Caos na Antiguidade - Livro +INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/04/conv... #AncientHistory #Enviroment #ClassicalArchaeology #Archaeology #chaos #Greece #Rome #HistoryofReligions #books #AncientBlueSky

article i'm reading is full of bizarre typographical errors, but i'm quite taken with the idea that Paul taught Eor daily for two years, that could explain his later depressive state in the Poo books.

oops

ok, i hadn't thought about it like that. hmmm.

one part of me think 👼, stay out of all the pointless culture war antagonism online, the other part of me 😈, I'm saving this meme for later!

This week on the blog, I court controversy by suggesting that our understanding of history has in fact improved over the decades #history #academia salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2025/03/20/n...

always love it when a journal offers me an open access charge for publishing a book review.

It's proofs day! :-)

sometimes only some ALLCAPS insanity will do the trick

How to opt-out of Cambridge University Press emails inviting authors and editors to allow their work to be given to provides of AI (heading usually includes "AI subsidiary aggregation addendum") Open the email and then follow these steps: (1/3)

Um, every time i find a typo in a Brill volume or on the website i think, "so that's where all the money goes!" not on copy-editing anyway.

CFP: book chapters for a forthcoming volume: “Place as Presence: Time, Country and the Bible.” seeking indigenous / post-colonial / ecologically aware contributions. mcusercontent.com/201e1aeaca73...

CFP Asia-Pacific Early Christian Studies Society. "Scripture in Early Christianity." apecss.wixsite.com/apecss/call-...

CFP Evangelical History Association in Australia. "Discerning Patterns in History." David Bebbington keynote. www.evangelicalhistory.org/2025-confere...

$1000 Essay prize on "AI and the Quest for Wisdom". 1 each for student and open category. Use of AI not allowed. events.nd.edu.au/ai-and-the-q...

If Word is no longer letting you "save as" PDF with using Adobe (bloodsucking leeches) you can still use the export and/or print to PDF function to make a PDF.

new CFP just dropped and it's post-apocalyptic! popularcultureandtheology.com/2025/02/03/c...

I made my students take selfies with one book that they got from the campus library to cite for their first paper. I also banned all websites (except for online databases like JSTOR).

some fun & free resources for biblical Greek teaching/learning here scripturial.com/blog/

This isn't the flashiest segment of a Neo-Assyrian palace relief, but I absolutely love it. It shows two scribes, one writing on parchment (probably Aramaic), and one writing cuneiform on clay. Little details like this make my heart sing!

Neu im IxTheo-Zweitveröffentlichungservice: Ab sofort sind zahlreiche Publikationen von Prof. Dr. Peter Lampe (Neues Testament, Universität Heidelberg) unter ixtheo.de/AuthorityRec... recherchierbar und viele sind #OpenAccess !

Ancient Greek for Everyone. Just found this creative commons open access/source introductory Greek textbook, looks really good on first glance. And also looks like a very useful platform for creating textbooks. pressbooks.pub/ancientgreek/

*How to publish in Biblical Studies/Theology journals for PhD Students and ECRs* [recycled historic thread from the other place] My response to Chris Tilling's post on Facebook has been getting a lot of love, so I thought I'd turn it into a 🧵 here. click on my friend . . . 👇👇👇 1/

I still harbour a secret ambition to study something at the Manukau Institute of Technology so I can tell people I graduated from MIT.

Congrats to the Australian College of Theology being awarded university status!! 🎉🎓👏 Henceforth, will be known as Australian University of Theology (AUT) [hopefully won't get confused with Auckland University of Technology (AUT) too often🤔] www.actheology.edu.au/australian-c...

🚨New open access book🚨 Purity in Ancient Judaism www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/puri...

In Roman-era Palestine was every pool a mikvah? Often taken as taxonomic of a kind of Judaism closer to "ours" (medieval, Rabbinic, or modern), these studies sound a note of caution and open other possibilities.

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

Today's hot take: if you don't pronounce both Rs in February you are an unmitigated vulgarian

so apparently my work on the Gospel of Mark has been making big waves in the field of . . . high energy physics (to the uninitiated, if you are a published scholar you get a lot of this sort of spam, but usually for fake/predatory journals within some reach of your actual interests)