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/

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-...

Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset on 22 September 2025: #RoshHashana BL Harley MS 5794; Maḥzor, a service-book for the New Year's feast according to the German rite; 1614 CE; Germany; f.70v

Carmina figurata: text written in the form of a king #RoshHashanah BL Oriental 2733; Mahzor for Rosh ha-Shanah, Franco-German rite; 14th century; France; f.51r

Ihave not made up my mind yet but this is def worth reading. Thank you @petertarras.bsky.social medisi.hypotheses.org/7839

and the podcast is up! sorry I'm in such dim light it's, uh, the mystery of biblical conspiracy surrounding me www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9o1...

A scribe’s effort to correct an omission. The words that were accidentally left out are pulled along by one man who passes them to another who waits between the fourth and fifth lines to receive them - c. 1300, English Book of Hours, Walters Ms. W.102, f. 39v

The oldest Jewish cemetery in the UK, dating back to the Norman Conquest, was just discovered. www.jpost.com/history/arti...

Our book in honour of Liba Taub is (finally) out. I'm so pleased we could celebrate Liba in this way!

It is argued that 'claricia' who is depicted swinging from the initial 'Q'(uid) at the beginning of Psalm 51, is the illuminator. Walters Ms. W.26, Claricia Psalter; late 12th - early 13th century; Germany (Augsburg); f.64r

Yesterday paper's recording: Ángel Narro (València), •Thecla’s Increasing Authority from Early Christianity to Late Antiquity• genaut.univie.ac.at @angelnarro.bsky.social

📣📣📣📣📣 If you are a PhD student or a post-doc and your interests converge with those of ROMANA, look closely: Azrieli International Fellowships - Calls for Applications (2026) The Azrieli Fellows Program is pleased to announce the call for applications for two prestigious fellowship opportunities:

New issue of Journal of Late Antiquity Vol. 18, No. (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55589 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @jmrcolvin.bsky.social

You know him for /Against the Christians/, /Homeric Questions/, /On the Cave of the Nymphs/, the /Isagoge/, and /On Not Eating Animals/. More from Porphyry coming soon! Like the Pearlsong, this volume will be available as an open-access PDF and a beautiful hard copy.

This week I finished typesetting the next 4T book, Fabien Muller on Porphyry's Letter to Anebo & Philosophy from Oracles: Greek & Latin fragments, Eng. translations, glossaries, and short commentary. Stay tuned if you're interested in gods and daemons, theurgy, and oracles in dactylic hexameter!

Announcement! Ancient Jew Review is the new host of Models of Piety (MOP), the annual meeting of scholars of religion in late antiquity. If you regularly attend SBL/AAR, come join us at this year's cocktail hour. More info here:

Catullus’s rudest poem, my new translation. You know you want to read it. You can even hear it read. open.substack.com/pub/armandda...

📢New release! 📜 John Healey presents a re-edition and translation of 3rd-century #Syriac legal parchments from Upper Mesopotamia, with extensive commentary. These documents constitute our earliest significant evidence of the Syriac language and script. 🔗 brill.com/display/titl... #acrel #Aramaic

The latest installment of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae is finally in print. From "reus" to "robustus".

Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

#Event | Bridges and Boundaries, Australian Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, on February 8-9, 2026 in Sydney, Australia | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... #Jews #Christians #relations #AAJS #Jewishstudies Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2025

Do Pamphilus and Eusebius count as a power couple or rather as a bromance, or both? They certainly ruled my life lately...

Our Greek-English edition of Cyril of Alexandria's Five Books/Tomes Against Nestorius is now for sale! Order your copy on our website: luxpatrum.com Includes the authoritative critical Greek text by Eduard Schwartz, along with the only complete translation of the work available in English.

This arrived unexpectedly today!

New in CHR: “Fragments of Greek Patristics in Eusebius’s Historia ecclesiastica and Their Readers in the Latin West.”

The 2025 Semester 2 schedule for the BECS Global Seminar is set, with presentations by Bernadette Brooten (Brandeis), Amelia Brown (MQ and AAA), Paul Trebilco (Otago), Ben Edsall (ACU), and Paul Roche (Sydney).

Das Buch zu diesem tollen Cover ist nun OA erschienen, d.h. es kann heruntergeladen & gelesen werden. Korrigieren begreifen wir darin als Kulturtechnik, die Produktionsverhältnissen unterliegt, aber auch selbst zur Produktion & Veränderung von Texten beiträgt. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/3 look at this roundtable on "the ways that never parted"!

CfP DIGITAL CLASSICIST SEMINAR BERLIN 2025/26: “Potential and Limits of Digital Methods”. All info here: digital-classicist.bbaw.de/cfp #digiclass

🎈Lively conversations at our Meet the Author event with Hizky Shoham at the #WCJS2025 in #Jerusalem! We’ll be here until Thursday and look forward to talking with you about past, current, and future projects. Come say hello! 💰P.S. Don’t miss the 40% discount on all our English books!

We were so delighted that Michal Govrin, co-editor of the PJTC volume "But There Was Love – Shaping the Memory of the Shoah" came to our booth! This important volume grew out of a working group she led at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. 🔖The book is #OA! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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!

The hard copy is printed on luxurious paper (70# Sundance Linen in Natural) and incl. a cover with a snake and pearl, plus the dust jacket you see ⬇️. Available here and elsewhere:

Um ... what? Did they not own the NYC building? (if they did, they're rich now) I keep running into their coins in the collections of the Getty Villa and the Met. Love the one below. flic.kr/p/2ri5QTL

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

Spanish discovery suggests Roman era ‘church’ may have been a synagogue www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Hi everyone, just so you know, it's Pamphilus, not Pamphilius...There is no i after the l... Just sayin' after seeing this everywhere. FYI, Pamphilius is not a Christian scholar but "a genus of leaf-rolling sawflies within the Symphyta belonging to the family Pamphiliidae" according to Wikipedia

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

My book is out online! It won’t feel real until the print book comes out in September, but I’m excited to see it out in the world at last.

We have extended the call for applications to July 30th for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven Project “Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus.” The successful candidate would not necessarily need to move to Frankfurt to take up this position.

Writing and Learning used to be a physically violent business. Scribal punishment in the Cathedral of Durham. *Afficitur plagis qui non vult discere gratis* more on scribal abuse here: medievalfragments.wordpress.com/2014/01/31/s...

Upcoming International Workshop on The Notion of the Self in Seneca's Writings, sponsored by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the ERC project Romana. Time: June 25, 10:15-12:00 (GMT+3). For any enquiries, please contact [email protected]

Our ISF project Josephus Christianus, in partnership with E-lijah lab, will be presented at the International Israel conference of the humanities, social sciences, and the digital humanities on June 10th! Our PhD student, Dima will introduce our topic and methods.

Shavuot begins at sundown on Sunday 1st June. Here is depicted the giving of the Tablets of the Law to Moses on Mount Sinai. #Shavuot BL Add 26968; Forli Siddur; 1383 CE; Italy, Central (Romagna, Forli); f.145r

Summer readings here I come www.theguardian.com/books/articl...

"A review written in transparent prose can be translated via Google or Deepl with great accuracy" Not sure whether forcing your colleagues to use AI just because language skills among Anlophones is collapsing is really a good look. bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.05...

My book on the Pearlsong, inaugurating a new series (4T), is available for pre-ordering 😎 Has (vocalized) Syriac and 2 Greek texts w/ facing English translations, glossaries, and a wide-ranging commentary. Come for the story, Syriac, and Greek — stay for the Coptic, Mandaic, Parthian, and more!