My office co-worker is lazy 🐇

⏳🎉📯D-day -7 Our Zoom workshop on the transmission of knowledge is this coming Sunday! For details and registration (compulsory), scan the QR code or write to me privately. Don't miss out !

#FrescoFriday takes us in a procession of #children to pay our respects to the goddess #Diana, in a #fresco from #Ostia now in the #VaticanMuseums. It's from a building with a painted #calendar dating from 209-211 CE. This scene represents #August, when Diana was celebrated. #AncientBluesky 🏺

With contributions by @zafulotus.bsky.social @mauat.bsky.social, Julie van Pelt, Barbara Crostini and yours truly.

The thematic section of Judaica on "Nature Miracles and Paradoxography in Biblical Reception of the First Centuries CE" has been published! For the open-access issue go to: judaica.ch/thematic-sec... For those interested more generally in Late Antiquity, a special issue in SLA will soon follow!

#NewPublication #OpenAccess #Syriac #ChristianEast www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

Today I cancelled a paper I was invited to give in July at one of these big international conferences; I could not come in person and the panel organizer kindly agreed to let me talk *on zoom*. But then, surprise surprise: registration fees: +/ 300 Euros 😲. For Zoom attendance. Nope.

The libraries of Alexandria and Caesarea: two of antiquity's most iconic collections and the story connecting them. Prof. M. Niehoff and myself will be discussing exactly this (in Hebrew) at the NL in Jerusalem on April 29th Registration below @romanaerc.bsky.social👇 www.nli.org.il/he/visit/eve...

Did early Christians have a sense of humour 🧐? More than we tend to think---This is what I will argue in one of the two plenary sessions at the North American Patristics Society meeting in Chicago. Looking forward to the conversation! Program below 👇

Le petit cadeau est bien arrivé.

* ha ha ha ha * The year is 1503, and this jester is laughing at you from his woodcut, reader!

SPECS it is 👓

Proofs! "Search the Scriptures Because They Testify About Me" (John 5:39): An Alexandrian Misquotation of the Fourth Gospel

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 16 April (4:45 CET): Andrew Wilson (Oxford), The Archaeology of the Third-Century Crisis. In person and online - as always.

Vor einem Jahr durfte ich die beeindruckende Große Synagoge in Rom bestaunen, die 1986 Schauplatz eines zentralen, symbolischen Ereignisse in der jüngeren Geschichte des jüdisch-christlichen Verhältnisses war. Heute widmet sich das DLF Kalenderblatt diesem Ereignis, dem Besuch von Johannes Pauls II.

One of the researchers, Prof. Alain Martin, was my Greek and Papyrology teacher in Brussels. His teaching was the one I enjoyed the most during my 'licence' in Classics. So interesting and always delivered with wit.

Academia then and now: Σχολαστικὸς εὐτράπελος ἀπορῶν δαπανημάτων τὰ βιβλία αὐτοῦ ἐπίπρασκε· καὶ γράφων πρὸς τὸν πατέρα ἔλεγε· Σύγχαιρε ἡμῖν, πάτερ, ἤδη γὰρ ἡμᾶς τὰ βιβλία τρέφει.

Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Tazria (תַזְרִיעַ) with a dog chasing its own 'golden' tail. #ParashahPictures Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.65v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Home sweet home

For his 'Utopia', Thomas More devised a Utopian alphabet. In one of our copies (R3A12099), a reader has transcribed a number of place names in the margins using this alphabet. Our thanks to the participants at last month’s Neolatinists’ Day for this nice discovery!

Hello there Roma

Last day of free download! 😱

Parte alia titulum Pauli uia seruat Ostiensis Qua stringit amnis caespitem sinistrum. Regia pompa loci est, princeps bonus has sacrauit arces Lusitque magnis ambitum talentis. Bratteolas trabibus subleuit, ut omnis aurulenta Lux esset intus ceu iubar sub ortu. #SanPaolofuorilemura #Roma

Congrats @romanaerc.bsky.social !!

This red-figure kylix (cup) features a tondo of an Athenian schoolboy trudging to school, holding his wax writing tablets. He wears a laurel wreath, perhaps for winning a poetry competition. Plus ça change …🏺 Greek, Attic, ca. 460 BCE, attributed to the Painter of Munich 2660. #MetMuseum 📸 me

I will leave Roma with a new illness: the carciofi syndrome.

Congratulations to Dr. Adele Reinhartz (McMaster PhD 1983) on the publication of her edited volume (in collaboration with Oded Irshai), In Praise of Wisdom, a Festschrift in honour of Paula Fredriksen!

Hearing that the splendid Dame @averilcam.bsky.social has passed. She was an amazing scholar. She will be missed. Please note her memoir and remember to cite her as one of the pivotal founders of the field we now call Late Antiquity. www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

Bad news and good news about our April 26 workshop, The Transmission of Knowledge in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Bad: we've had to move online. Good: that means you can join us from anywhere. A Zoom link will be circulated — PM me if you'd like one.

Free download until April 21st: Stéphanie Binder’s “Tertullian and the Jews”! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Hot off the press! 📕🖨️ This new book explores the Sibylline Oracles across overlapping cultural worlds (Jewish, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Christian) offering fresh insight into their meaning and a reassessment of their place in ancient Mediterranean literature. brill.com/display/ti...

*takes big breath and belts in Jean Valjean* 🎶 ONE DAY MOOOOOOOOOOORE! 🎶

Kenny Harris~Artist

2 days left! download your PDF for free now!

My ability to focus is inversely proportionate to the number of missile alerts on my app.

Rereading *Josephus and Jesus* in preparation for our event on Monday—a debate btwn T. C. Schmidt & Giovanni Bazzana! For a FREE PDF of this Open Access book = josephusandjesus.com/purchase-page/

Our offices have moved to Rome

Happy Easter to everyone celebrating today! 🐰 Have a wonderful day. 📷 aprilmunday.wordpress.com/2022/06/19/t...

If you don’t hear from me, I am hiding some place in Italy.

About last night: waiting for Leo at the Colosseum www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

My plans for Friday night in Rome

San Clemente. when the floor is just as incredible as the murals.

Truly honored to receive the 2025 J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award alongside Jake Benson. Thank you to everyone who supported this research journey! #ManuscriptStudies #PhDLife

So this just happened... I saw the pope passing right in front of me in his papamobile!!!

in case folks are wondering what I hope to be talking about in November: