finally submitted that long overdue book review. now I can...tackle that stack of corrections....😩

Cambridge Elements do not get reviewed often (I guess the format is to blame) so I am even more chuffed to see Louise Blanke discussing Monasticism and the City in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages for JMMS. Really honored by such kind words from a giant in our field!

Every so often I wonder if I'm overreacting for committing to no more US travel under the current regime (I'm Canadian and usually go to a few conferences a year) And then something else like this happens Sorry folks, it's virtual talks only for the time being.

Bit of news here: genaut.univie.ac.at/?p=1595 @erc.europa.eu #ERCCoG

Just put the finishing touches (for now) on a co-authored piece that I quite literally could never have written without the specific expertise of my co-author. Feeling totally invigorated, and looking forward to the next opportunity to collaborate in this way.

Two fully paid PhD positions at Lund University! One in Hebrew Bible and the other in Jewish studies, focus late antiquity. Gorgeous location and gorgeous colleagues. Don't sleep on this! (Set filter to HT to access these two in particular.) lunduniversity.lu.se/vacancies

Please share! Two new postdoc positions have opened in the RADHEART project at the University of Bergen. The first is on ancient Rabbinic literature from the 2nd – 7th century CE. #AcRel #sblaar #AncientBlueSky www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Does anyone here do freelance indexing, or know someone who does? I've got a manuscript that needs an experienced indexer with a relatively quick turnaround. Message me here and we can talk details.

Nordic New Testament conference call for papers! www.gu.se/en/literatur...

A cancelled meeting feels just as good today as it did a couple decades ago as a BA student when a lecture was cancelled

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

A curious trend in my intro to Scripture test is that it's almost exclusively female students who noted the shift in how women were presented in Paul's letters and those written later in his name...a feature I highlighted explicitly as evidence that Paul is likely not the author of the 'pastorals'

I'm sure the author of John's Gospel would have been delighted that nearly half the students in my Intro to Scripture module identified his prologue (which begins, 'in the beginning was...') as Genesis on the final test...

Time to look into your settings, folks.

Somehow I didn't twig that this beautiful @cua-press.bsky.social volume on Origen's Homilies on the Psalms (found only in 2012) is out! It was such a pleasure to join the other contributors with my contribution on Origen's comments on the prosopon of the Psalms. www.cuapress.org/978081323966...

Open postdoc position (2 years) in religion and migration in my ERC project ”Faith-Based Refugee Relief in Europe: Connecting the Empirical and the Ethical”. Deadline 15 Jan 2026 - come work in a fabulous team!

FFS! Canada Post is NOT a business. It is a public service, like parks and fire departments. Decide what services it should provide and fund it properly. Are we expecting police departments or highway maintenance to turn a profit?

It was my pleasure to present some research on Theodoret of Cyr's use of scripture and imitation of scriptural authors for the @trsglasgowuni.bsky.social biblical studies research seminar on Friday afternoon. Lovely questions and helpful feedback!

Such a pleasure to be back @au.dk for a workshop on ancient historiography hosted by Christian Thrue Djurslev in the History Department/Antikmuseet! I got generous comments on my paper on Theodoret and learned LOADS from colleagues in Classics, History, and Theology.

Let's show our support!

LET THE PEOPLE SAY AMEN!

Last evening I had the pleasure of attending the opening of an exciting new @chesterbeatty.bsky.social exhibition, *Manuscripts & the Mind* led by curator, Jill Unkel and the Mapping the Mind project PIs, Garrick Allen, @kelsbot.bsky.social, and Christoph Scheepers.

Is anyone who’s familiar with SBL citation style interested in a small copy editing gig? A dissertating friend of mine needs some help going through footnotes to keep her sanity.

😯OK!

🚨AMARC GRANTS: upcoming deadline🚨 We give grants of up to £500 to projects that promote the accessibility, preservation and study of manuscripts and archives. 📅Deadline: 1 November Read more on our website: amarcsite.wordpress.com/grants/

Published today on #WorldHomelessDay: my book Debt Trap Nation – a deep dive into how government policy is driving families into homelessness & debt. All royalties to @seacharity.bsky.social 💜 Families aren't failing. They're being failed. 📖 www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... #DebtTrapNation

Assistant or Associate Professorship i Digital Methods at Department of History and Classical Studies - Vacancy at Aarhus University international.au.dk/about/profil...

A lovely interview with the co-editors of this @cua-press.bsky.social volume on Origen's homilies on the Psalms to which I contributed some years ago. An honour to have been part of this. Congratulations, Joseph Trigg and Robin Darling Young! www.cuapress.org/2025/10/02/i...

Just saw my first MA student through to completion. Couldn't be more proud of the excellent work she did!

Sharing this on behalf of George Kiraz: There will be an introductory Syriac course at Cambridge in the winter term (January 2026). Please share with anyone who might be interested!

Conference announcement/call for papers! You’ll note that there’s no theme beyond “new research on apocryphal Christian literature.” We truly just want to hear about whatever interests you most in apocryphal Christian literature right now. More info here: www.nasscal.com/meetings/

I'm in here three times! Do follow through on this, fellow authors.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

3 papers were philosophically-oriented: @dublincityuni.bsky.social PhD student, @antilla.bsky.social on home and pilgrimage, @tcddublin.bsky.social's Cathriona Russell on a 'cosmology of habitability', and DCU colleague, Joseph Rivera on an existential view of home and world. Fab day!

Brilliant seminar yesterday, featuring papers with close readings of the mobility of gods and people in the Hebrew Bible by @au.dk's Elisa Uusimäki, of Hagar as foreigner by @dublincityuni.bsky.social PhD student Abigail Sines, and patristic authors' understanding of scripture as home by myself.

I have a now venue-less book review for one of the recent Josephus commentary volumes. Does anyone know of a good place for this or should I just self publish it on Knowledge Commons and/or zenodo?

A week today, I'll host a small @entirl.bsky.social-funded seminar on 'home' in biblical, theological, and philosophical perspective at @dublincityuni.bsky.social's School of theology, philosophy and music. Guests include Cathriona Russel of @tcddublin.bsky.social, and Elisa Uusimäki from @au.dk.

I am hiring! 1-2 post-docs to join my project on political violence in democracies at @uupeace.bsky.social!

Somehow I've managed to avoid teaching Koine Greek up until this coming semester...Any recommendations for an intuitive yet thorough textbook?

Dear colleagues, my new book on Mark's ending is now available for free (Open Access) thanks to the @snsf.ch Open Access grant number 235752. Please feel free to download and read. Enjoy! doi.org/10.1163/9789...

A very pleasant couple of days @chesterbeatty.bsky.social for our @researchireland.ie New Foundations project on 'home' and late antiquity. @mbinzurich.bsky.social @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social @kelsbot.bsky.social

Private viewing today of a variety of artefacts from late antiquity in the @chesterbeatty.bsky.social collections! From Coptic amulets and monastic papyri, to Ephrem's commentary on the Diatesseron, the Medinet Madi material, and the Panopolis papyri!

We'll have a private viewing today of some 4rd and 5th century manuscripts in Dublin! Finally some time alone with the Manichaeans viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/image...

Chers amis de Blue Sky : Ma belle-mère a perdu une petite portemonnaie contenant ses appareils auditifs, à Châlons-en-Champagne. Probablement tombée sur la route hier soir. Petit sac beige. Des appareils auditifs minuscules qui améliorent considérablement sa qualité de vie. Merci de republier! 🙏

The team features @tcddublin.bsky.social's Rebecca Usherwood and Daniele Pevarello, @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social, @kelsbot.bsky.social, @mbinzurich.bsky.social, Nils Hallvard Korsvoll of UiAgder, Christos Tsirogiannis (University of Amsterdam), and of course, @chesterbeatty.bsky.social's Jill Unkel!

In less than two weeks, I'll be hosting this @researchireland.ie New Foundations event @chesterbeatty.bsky.social and @dublincityuni.bsky.social! Very much looking forward to working with a fab team on ideas about 'home' and the late antique artefacts in Beatty's collections!

Exciting news! 🎉 We’re now accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships starting in September 2026. 👉Find out more and apply here: shorturl.at/c8WIW

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...

Consider submitting that paper you just presented at that conference a few weeks ago here 👇👇 I know from experience that the editor (@seanhannan.bsky.social‬) is great to work with! journal.equinoxpub.com/RST