I dreamed I was excavating and ghosts from the area were helping me record the finds. Put this on the list for when we figure out ghosts, ghost relations, etc

seeking summer reads: historical nonfiction to read on my kindle when i'm tired = for popular audiences & prob won't need to cite later. previous successful examples include the bright ages, blitzed, & lizzie wade's apocalypse. would esp love something on history of islam!

YES. And also there's a difference between 'critical fabulation' and just having a historical imagination that lets you think with context, it's doing specific types of recovery work to deal with problematic archives. So a) don't make shit up and b) do critique the systems behind the sources, too

i have never been so humbled as i am now, trying to track down PDFs of my own work through my institutional library

As the SBL program starts firming up, I'd like to encourage unit chairs to keep track of committee members and accepted presenters who are unable to attend the meeting due to the increased cost. Please consider submitting those numbers to SBL.

garamond, 12pt, single spaced

women's ordination in the early church! one of those "surely there is a Feminism here somewhere" moves that is characteristic of a 20-year-old exvangelical.

"a dynasty of gravediggers whose documents record aspects of their everyday lives over roughly 80 years (c. 237–314 AD)." !!!

when library says i can download the whole book as a pdf 🥰

Exploring each step of Roman Egyptian magical books, from production to use to collection, this article from West 86th explores their physical details, iconic, semantic, and expressive features. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/chvs50YzMOu.

whew, looks like an incredible issue

It's @sarahebond.bsky.social day at Gonzaga!

New pod! Mike talks to Derek Krueger about Monastic Desires If you're enjoying the show, please rate and review podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... open.spotify.com/episode/4K5E...

hivemind, where would you direct a student researching ancient criticisms of early Christian asceticism? i'm thinking of the council of gangra and libanius's complaints of "the black-mobbed crowd" in antioch, but has anyone written good articles or books on this?

Parts of Antioch's cemeteries were erratically excavated in the 1930s. I gathered that data and published it, most of it for the first time. If your research touches on Antioch's cemeteries, have fun exploring this piece and the supplementary appendices! ajaonline.org/article/exhu...

2-yr Postdoc: Indiana University, Bloomington, Center for Religion and the Human Deadline: 3/30 The postdoctoral scholar will serve as managing editor for the project "American Religion in 100 Objects," pursue their own research and teach one course per year. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32226

submiiiiiiit #aarsbl26 #sblaar26 #affectivespaces #ancientreligion

good work on the feed today, y'all, feels a little like vintage twitter on my RELI tab

andrew is living in a dark academia book

i've an anonymous question box in my early christianity class since students range so widely in background. this week's most interesting Q was: "did ancient Jewish people believe that Adam & Eve were historical figures?" i'd say no but wanna help me answer? paging @andytobo.bsky.social

the Muehlberger Method (tm) @emuehlbe.bsky.social

just in time for course planning on apocalypse next semester!

The Apostle Paul:

January 9, 400 CE: Eudoxia is made Augusta. She was the only daughter of Bauto the Frank, later married Arcadius & was lifted up as Augusta after having two daughters. She would die of a miscarriage in October 404. Since the Severans, abortion had become increasingly criminalized (Digest 48.8.8).

This. Is. Brilliant.

why hasn't anyone liked this yet

My book, _An Exotic Apocalypse: Revelation and the Appropriation of Judaism in the Roman Empire_, is officially forthcoming with Penn State University Press. It'll be the inaugural book in their _Religions in the Ancient Mediterranean_ series.

"Christian archaeology is a school of the senses [...] a school of humility [...] a school of hope."

archivists and users of archives! this is an archaeological fieldbook in french. i am having trouble with a word. can you help me discern it? see alt text for more. #history #french

On this World AIDS Day, I would like to recommend a spectacular podcast about #theChurchWithAIDS. Lynne Gerber has created "When We All Get to Heaven," which is available through Slate and details the Metropolitan Community Church in the Castro during the AIDS crisis. slate.com/podcasts/whe...

Bloomsbury - AAR-SBL-25 Cambridge University Press - 107989 Eerdmans - AARSBL2025 Oxford University Press - EXAAR25 Mohr Siebeck - AAR-SBL-2025 Peeters Publishers - AARSBL2025 SBL Press - AM2025

did anyone make a roundup of book discount codes for this year's #aarsbl25 #sblaar25 ?

This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred

Head to a Pavement location instead! Boston business w/ unionized baristas. Their shops on Newbury St and Boylston are both just a couple of blocks from Hynes Convention Center.

always a pleasure to peek into @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social's archives. today i was trying to find a woman who worked as cataloguer at antioch for a bit - florence day - & sure enough, stumbled across these conversational descriptions of the first cohort of junior fellows www.doaks.org/newsletter/n...

today as i was soliciting answers in class i said ... ... ... waddup. WHY DID I SAY THIS, DID I BLACK OUT

Pleased to say that for the next year I'll be a Publisher for our Religion list at Routledge books, covering all areas of religious studies and theology. I'd welcome anyone researching or teaching in this space to get in touch if you'd like to discuss a book idea 📖

Archivist position at The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe: careers.harvard.edu/job/archivis... #historyjobs

assigned @emuehlbe.bsky.social's "perpetual adjustment" to a small group of students and wooo there are a LOT of exclamation points in their annotations this week!

🚨 Postdoc at UT Austin Religious Studies in Religion, Healing, and Magic in Late Antiquity (2 years)! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UTstaf...

the analysis is too boring to even type out

'Sutton Hoo & Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?' This is one of the most exciting things I've written (so far..!). Thanks to everyone who helped. academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Leo XIV comes out swinging hard in his first Apostolic Letter, esp §§80-81, insisting on the centrality of social movements and structural change and not JP2’s restrictions of liberation theology to individual dimensions. Vatican 2 and Medellín are back. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Faith groups have filed suit against DHS for violating their 1st and 4th amendment rights, arguing that by targeting faith-based demonstrators "with violence," ICE agents are enacting a policy that “substantially burdens their exercise of religion” and violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

I’ve put together a list of funding sources for graduate students in biblical studies and early Christianity. Most of these are only available to students in the U.S. but many of them don’t have citizenship requirements. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This is great, so glad this is happening. news.artnet.com/art-world/ci...

hat tip to @ismipratima.bsky.social, wtf