🗣️ PLEASE SHARE 🗣️ I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator! spot.fund/dn8t744sc

IT’S ALIVE! today i received my advance copies of 𝘗𝘢𝘶𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮 ahead of publication next month. it just dawned on me last week that people might actually buy and read this book. which is mildly terrifying. yay?

this book just came out and i *already* cannot stop talking about it with students! it’s become a staple in my book of revelation course. (i literally referred to it again in class this morning.)

At a Coldplay concert reading the 8th volume of Gerhard Kittel’s Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament and shaking my head the whole time so the people who see me on the Kiss Cam know I disagree with it.

Proofs.

my book_smoke & mirrors_ is out on oxford scholarship online. i have many feelings, mostly good! this was a difficult write for many reasons. so i hope you find something useful in it if you read it.

Penn Press and @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social are delighted to announce that @thejqr.bsky.social will become fully Open Access beginning with the winter 2026 issue (coming in January)! www.pennpress.org/blog/jewish-...

im obsessed 😍

aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

One of the most hotly anticipated biblical studies books of 2025 drops today! Mark Goodacre's *The Fourth Synoptic Gospel John’s Knowledge of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.* @goodacre.bsky.social @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social www.eerdmans.com/978080287513...

Duke UP has put the Introduction to my book online! See here: bit.ly/42yhObv

My second album, "The Flutters and the Feels," comes out this Friday and I'm very excited to share it with you all! You'll be able to find it everywhere music can be found, but if you follow me on Spotify or Apple Music (or YouTube Music) you'll get the album on your new music playlist automatically

It's time to tell you to pre-order this! $34.95 for a handy lil' paperback! www.ucpress.edu/books/things...

this one’s a doozy folks! massive congrats to Dr. Soon for making a really exciting contribution to such an important topic.

Friends who work with old (and illegible) manuscripts: Do you know of software where I can put in PDF digitizations of manuscripts where I can play with contrast/tone/saturation etc globally (not just page to page)?

The Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration Database is live at historyofincarceration.com. Both the platform and the data are very much a work in progress, and we will continually update it over the coming years. I hope that it is useful, and if you would like to contribute, please do be in touch.

We’re delighted to welcome Dr. Annalisa Phillips Wilson (back) to the department! Dr. Phillips Wilson completed her PhD at Durham in 2021, so it’s a pleasure to have her back with us from September. A specialist in Pauline studies, Dr. Phillips Wilson will join our New Testament team.

was thrilled to find that @paultsloan.bsky.social's new book finally arrived in my office this morning! cannot wait to read ahead of my life of jesus course this semester. it has all the markings of a game-changer.

It's out, and now free to download for the next 2 weeks! Go give my new book a read (it's short enough to finish in a sitting) and then share it far and wide to your friends who live for the connections between myth, ritual, and economics (all of them)!

Excited to announce that after a lot of editorial work our volume "Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE" is out now. @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social @illdottore.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/60683

Hey, it's here! My weird little Cambridge Element is here! Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like the open access download is working right, but go take a look if you have institutional access!

it's here! it's here! @vox-magica.bsky.social's amazing new Element in Religion in Late Antiquity is live and ⚡free⚡ to download for the next two weeks! get it! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

i've been preparing a course on the book of revelation for fall 2025, and, i really gotta say, @saremanuel.bsky.social's 𝘙𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘦 has been inspiring, insightful, and genuinely enjoyable. i've read plenty on revelation this summer but Dr Emanuel's work really stands out. everyone should read it!

this a MASSIVE win for westcott house. cambridge is better place with Dr Gathergood there. any cantab student would be privileged to have her as a supo!

Proofs for my forthcoming book. Out in November. See here: dukeupress.edu/after-transf... #ancientbluesky #byzantinebluesky

ah, i was waiting for these; they're finally here. this mini-monograph needs a final proofs check, but it's coming soon - like in a few weeks soon. and it'll be free to download for about two weeks once it's released.

🚨 new song alert! 🚨 this entire album is so so fun. been listening on repeat. i’ve been waiting impatiently for it to drop so i can send it to all my friends and tell them i know the artist irl.

Ooooooh, my forthcoming Element now has a web page and publication date. Get excited! https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/reading-creation-myths-economically-in-ancient-mesopotamia-and-israel/FB232A57D83E91577D25BD674343AB11

✨proofs day✨ for "Jewish Interconnectivity and Diasporic Unrest under Trajan" in the Journal of Ancient Judaism

my jsnt article comparing paul's claims about christ as an image of god with other ancient evidence about images of gods (literary, artistic, epigraphical, etc.) is now really truly published in the latest issue of the journal! does this mean it's really real?? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

and you can preorder my second book too! though i might wait. i’m hoping OUP gives me one of those special discount codes.

CONGRATS DR KEENAN

This was a real pleasure to develop together with @isaactsoon.bsky.social. We offer a pedagogical approach for analyzing ancient texts in religious studies classrooms, complete with a downloadable assignment template (PDF), guidelines for an in-class seminar activity, and tips for teacher feedback.

𝘗𝘢𝘶𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮 has a cover and a website! Conceived as a companion to PwJ (Fortress, 2015), this is the first go-to introductory resource on PwP (Fortress, 2025). The publication date is set for 4 Nov 2025, just in time for SBL. www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...

Paul within Judaism, Paul within paganism, Paul within this, Paul within that. Maybe the real Paul was the Paul within the friends we made along the way.

Book #3 is under contract with @fortresspress.bsky.social! I’ll be writing _From Slave to Saint_, a reception history of Onesimus from antiquity to modernity across Afroeurasia and the US. Onesimus’s apocryphal storyworld is huge & rarely explored, so I’m hoping to shed a little light on it.

✨ proofs day ✨ for God, Slavery, and Early Christianity! I’m thrilled that the dissertation-turned-book will be out in the world some time this fall, and hope that folks enjoy wading through hundreds of pages about the Shepherd, slavery, spirit possession, and the formation of Christian ethics.

she's got an amazon page (!!): www.amazon.com/Jesus-Other-...

Our team at Fortress has expanded recently and we’re eager to read proposals in a variety of areas, including: late antique and medieval Christian history; Judaism; Islam; & religious studies broadly conceived. Please reach out if you’re working on a project! www.fortresspress.com/info/submiss...

New issue of Journal for the Study of Judaism Vol. 56, No. 2 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @alexichantz.bsky.social

looks like a little bit more of cambridge is coming to crandall. and a septuagint scholar no less! i am VERY excited to welcome Andrew to crandall university later this year and to work with him to make the religious studies department something truly special.

Today, @christycobb.bsky.social and I’s JSNT article dropped! Go read “The Rhetoric and Ethic of Translating and Representing Enslaved Persons in New Testament and Early Christian Studies” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

everyone mark your calendars! my book _smoke & mirrors_ is going to be published in october, just in time for libra season. 💜

as if his teaching prowess and publication record weren’t impressive enough, @isaactsoon.bsky.social just released his debut album. i’ve been listening to YEUNG’s music on repeat for months now, and enjoying every minute of it. i’m so so excited that everyone else can finally enjoy it now, too.

Happy and humbled to report that my doctoral thesis will be published in the Biblical Interpretation series. Fingers crossed that “John as Divine Romance: Reading the Fourth Gospel with the Ancient Novel” makes an appearance at SBL 2025! @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social

Does Paul the apostle's gospel have room for artificial intelligence? In this *open access* publication I argue that it's possible. If you're interested you can find it free to read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

y’all, i know we can’t change this overnight, but: if you’re an SBL type who doesn’t feel safe traveling, but you need that CV line, i will 💯 read your paper for you. it’s not much, i know. but it’s something i can do.

New book series from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social: Studies on the Septuagint within the History of Greek www.degruyter.com/serial/sshg-...

over break, i got word that my mini-monograph, _magic and heresy in ancient christian literature_, is officially accepted and in queue for press. it's part of this CUP series edited by the brilliant and amazing @drewjakeprof.bsky.social. check out the super-smart company i get to keep:

🚨 NEW MONOGRAPH SERIES ON THE SEPTUAGINT WITHIN THE HISTORY OF GREEK 🚨 massive congrats to Klaas Bentein, Marieke Dhont, Trevor Evans, Andrew Keenan, and Robert Walker for putting together what is sure to be a – nay, *the*? – go-to series on all things septuagint.