I'm currently thinking about contrasts between holiness & wilderness in Latin Christian thinking, & this depiction of John the Baptist encapsulates some of the main features of this contrast in a very beautiful way. [Charleville-Mézières - BM - ms.0107, f.361]

In May, Jonathan Klawans published a piece in AJR calling for the retraction of published Dead Sea Scroll fragment forgeries. One volume has officially heeded his call: www.bloomsbury.com/us/gleanings...

Gleanings from the Caves has been retracted (via Jonathan Klawans) #post2002DSS

Ledig stilling som leksikograf ved UiB, med arbeidsoppgaver knyttet til de tre ordbøkene Norsk Ordbok, Bokmålsordboka og Nynorskordboka. Søknadsfrist 18. november! www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...

Later today (at 1pm CET): Chance Bonar (Virginia), "Onesimus: Apostle and Martyr in Eastern Mediterranean Literature"

"ChatGPTs siste versjon slipper ut like mye CO₂ som 30.000 fossilbiler, men når kunstig intelligens diskuteres i akademia handler alt om juks og læring." #ChatGPT www.khrono.no/reagerer-pa-...

"One collector claims that three months before Kando’s death in 1993 he purchased from Kando 2,000 Dead Sea Scroll fragments, which he now keeps in a London vault." H.Shanks,“Magnificent Obsession:The Private World of an Antiquities Collector,”BAR 22.3 (1996):22,24–25,27,30–35,62–64 #Kando #DSSVault

Looking forward Charlotte Hempel's lecture, The DSS and the Rural Economy on Oct 21. Follow the link for details and to register. jewishstudies.umd.edu/events/dead-... #dss #qumran

I loved, loved, loved the conference @dhko.bsky.social . It strangely restored my excitement about the academic life 😆

NAPS! Call for papers! 13 (!!) amazing looking thematic sessions to apply to, plus the general call for papers! www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...

Postdoktor i språkteknologi for norsk fagspråk: www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

Brent on 7Q5 and Hunger

Starting a new thread to collect critical perspectives on AI, as they are articulated dozens of times every day and appear repeatedly on my timeline. I can't read everything right away, but if, like me, you want to stay up to date, then this might help a bit:

#NewResearch #ArabicBible #OpenAccess @mmonier.bsky.social

A short version of my latest article: link.growkudos.com/1ed0q4c7e9s #translationstudies #biblicalstudies #Bibletranslation #virginbirth

Via @mortenbeckmann.bsky.social

Some runological advice to Norwegian citizens who are voting today: "Think over your plans".

In Revue Biblique, I have an article on the provenance of the "Nazareth Inscription", an Early Roman-period text that has been often linked over the last century with the earliest Christians. What can we actually say about it? 🧵

Corruption101

Today!

Betteridge's Law of Headlines -- "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no" -- remains undefeated

In a sense the powerful have always been above the law, but 1 thing that has changed is the illusion: the gap between rhetoric & reality, between symbolism & action, is now so obvious and extreme that the illusion has been openly shattered. (From June) www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...

My author’s copy has arrived from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social . Very nice to see in person. I wrote an entry with Laura Quick on developments in women’s ritual bathing in ancient Judaism.

Did you know that @katherinesouthwood.bsky.social is the new series editor of our Biblical Interpretation series? We’re seeking proposals - especially those engaging with new methodologies and hermeneutics! Got a book idea or manuscript ready? Get in touch with me! www.brill.com/BINS

Call for papers til årets konferanse gikk ut til mailinglista forrige uke! Nå er den også tilgjengelig her og på Universitetet i Innlandet sine websider: 🟠 Årets tema: Infrastruktur og grensesnitt 🟠 Deadline: 15. August 🟠 Tid og sted: 15-16 okt, 2025, Campus Hamar, INN. Spre ordet!

#DeadSeaScrollsofBuddhism #Loot

This weeks destination: @humboldtuni.bsky.social We are happy to be part of #IOSOT 2025 and - as always - we have lots of books to browse and buy at our stand. 📚📚📚

Having enjoyed a few such threads, let’s do a “for every like I’ll post something I find interesting about ancient Judaism” thread.

Aaaaaand ....submit! Now what????

I took part in the #SNTS2025 excursion to the memorial site of the former concentration camp Flossenbürg today. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed here by the Nazis on April 9th 1945. It was a deeply touching visit for me and I'd like to share two thoughts with you that our wonderful guide shared: 1/3

When I went to my office yesterday to get some books, I noticed that all the signs in Divinity Hall have small pieces of white paper taped over wherever any references to "diversity" or "inclusion" used to be...

“The Green Collection ... revealed that it purchased the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, which contains what is perhaps the earliest complete versions of Jonah and 1 Peter, at an auction last year.” brentnongbri.com/2025/08/06/c... #SchøyenCollection #MOTB

📢New release! 📗📜 Athanasios Despotis offers a detailed commentary on Jesus's long speeches in John 1-12, revealing how the Gospel of John engages with the religious and philosophical discourses of its time. Check it out here: brill.com/display/titl... #criticalbible #AcRel #NewTestament

The truth here is so ever relevant, is so simple and profound. I think I might pop it into my next book. Sharing yet again:

The full list of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, in video form. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Been silent for a while due to terrible bout of Covid & the brain-fog it’s giving me But I’m thinking clearly enough to know this is going into my Wisdom literature-slides

#Loot #Gilgit

This website update is shared as a reminder that if you are interested in writing for the Anchor Yale Bible Series (a monograph or a commentary) you should contact me and not the previous editor John Collins... yalebooks.yale.edu/the-anchor-y...

This is just the start of a five year project funded by the @erc.europa.eu: AI STORIES: Narrative Archetypes for Artificial Intelligence. We aim to test the hypothesis that LLMs will generate certain types of plot structure and that this may flatten cultural diversity. w3.uib.no/en/cdn/16971...

New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...

Job posting: Associate/Full Professor, Endowed Chair in the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Times and Contemporary Media at University of California, San Diego. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04338