The Kone Foundation @koneensaatio has awarded me a three-year grant for research on the role of the Bible in the identity construction of the Finnish Roma. Thank you all who have helped and supported me throughout the design of this research project! koneensaatio.fi/apurahat-ja-...

Anyone willing to coauthor an article on Pseudo-Clementines and John Woo’s Face/Off?

Independence day of Finland is not a bad day for a #proofsday! The book handles minoritized people and the biblical studies. It is written in language (🇫🇮) that is rather marginal in academic publishing. I have learned a lot as a co-editor of this volume 💙

My new Open Access article! For some reason it felt relevant to discuss the Bible and the LONG history of leaders telling stories about how things used to be great before moral, ethnic, urban, gender, and family corruption bigly happened. #EduSky #Election #Bible journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We are happy to announce that AABNER 3.3 is now available, a thematic issue on Global and Local Culture in the Roman East, guest edited by Hakola and Nikki. Issue and article pdfs available from our website.

It’s time for ”article published” post! This is what happens when you take the awesome prose of @maiakotro.bsky.social and then oversimplify things. ”Letter from Martyrs of Lyons and Vienne as A Diaspora Quest for Authenticity,” open access: aabner.org/ojs/index.ph... PS @aabner.bsky.social = ❤️❤️

"A world without trans people has never existed and never will" Poster spotted in Olympia, WA

It's SBL abstract time again. Here's the CFP for the Religious Competition program unit. Send your abstract our way!

This holy vessel of G&T symbolizes the doctoral defence that is now over.

Shameless self-promotion continues: my doctoral dissertation ”The Cultural Evolution of Cultic Expertise in Ephesus” is now freely downloable for each and everyone! urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978...

Unfortunately, there is a plan to close the study programme of Ancient Culture in the Uni. Helsinki. The programme focuses on ancient material culture, and I have been coordinating it. There is now a petition to continue the programme, so please sign it.

Proof day! 🤩