Jeremiah Coogan
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Gospels, material texts, philology, Late Antiquity | Assistant Professor of New Testament
By the way, this raises lots of questions for me: Why shorthand? What intended reading practices fit with that choice of script/writing system? What kind of shorthand? Who could actually read it? Who actu wrote it?
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Looking forward to this conversation! Come join us!
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Jacqueline Hidalgo
8 days ago
An amazing and essential book for our times! I am grateful to be in the room for this set of panelists and their conversation about the
#apocalypse
and
#immigration
in the USA.
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Monika Amsler
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SBL friends, join us for a field trip! 🎒
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This will be of particular interest for
#AARSBL
folks who work on Eusebius’s reception and the place of Eusebius in our imagined histories of early Christianity and of the Christian Bible.
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This year at
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#AncientEducation
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#BookHistory
program units are teaming up to host an off-site session at the Boston Athenaeum, just a short walk from the Convention Center.
bostonathenaeum.org
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Home - Boston Athenaeum
The Boston Athenaeum is a unique combination of library, museum, and cultural center in a magnificent landmark building.
https://bostonathenaeum.org
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NT at Oxford
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Professor of New Testament, Wycliffe College, Toronto, Canada. FT. Deadline: December 12, 2025.
nt4ox.link/wycliffeTO26
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Delighted to dive into this new monograph from Sam Johnson:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
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Ancient Jew Review
2 months ago
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:
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MOP — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
Announcement Bar
https://www.ancientjewreview.com/mop
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Ellen Muehlberger
2 days ago
Putting together my schedule for AAR/SBL, and this is literally the first thing on it---if you're there on Friday, friends, come on out!
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Sarah E. Bond
about 17 hours ago
I have been playing with the open source "UMap" along with CAWM & DARE Maptiles of the Roman Empire to help people make their own maps for websites, teaching, and books using ancient world data. Is there any interest in learning the basics of DIY maps?
umap.openstreetmap.de/en/map/ancie...
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If scholars are going to cite or assign an English translation of Eusebius's Church History, it really ought to be Jeremy Schott's excellent work, which is a significant improvement on anything else available—and is also priced extremely accessibly.
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-hi...
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The History of the Church by Eusebius of Caesarea - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-history-of-the-church/paper
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IOSCS
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Exegesis and Reception of the Psalms, 1st International Göttingen Conference on the Septuagint, September 2–5, 2026
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International Catacomb Society
4 days ago
We are now accepting applications for the 2026-2027 Shohet Scholars Grant for research on the Ancient Mediterranean! Awards range from $2,000-$30,000. Deadline is Feburary 1, 2026. More information:
www.catacombsociety.org/shohet-schol...
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Ellen Muehlberger
5 days ago
The Text and Transmission Research Seminar hosts a Youtube channel, so you can see past lectures--- here's me from yesterday, talking through a condensed version of a chapter in Things Unseen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kH9...
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TeTra | Ellen Muehlberger "Character Building: Tracing the Voice of Mary of Egypt"
YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kH93lpqG8U
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Ellen Muehlberger
6 days ago
I think it's live---I just downloaded a chapter from my new book, Things Unseen, to test the OA link, and it worked deprime, lege
luminosoa.org/chapters/m/1...
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Arthur Urbano
6 days ago
Working on some aspect of clothing in
#LateAntiquity
? Going to NAPS? Submit a proposal to the
@catacombsociety.bsky.social
organized panel!
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Mina Monier
7 days ago
Ausschreibung der Stelle einer Universitätsprofessur für Bibelwissenschaft des Neuen Testaments. Am Institut für Bibelwissenschaften und Historische Theologie der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Innsbruck ist eine
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Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird
9 days ago
We’ve so been looking forward to making this official. Mathias (
@mhanses.bsky.social
) and I have just signed a contract for our book, Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race, with Yale University Press (
@yalepress.bsky.social
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him)
8 days ago
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Sarah E. Bond
9 days ago
November 3, 182 CE: An enslaved child named Epaphroditus (8) falls from a window straining to see the castanet-dancers at a festival in the village of Senepta in Roman Egypt (P.Oxy. 3 475). A public physician (accusative: ‘δημόσιον ἰατρὸν’) is called for & a proper burial
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Christopher Smith
10 days ago
amid fascinating work on 12th c. developments in Chinese & Japanese poetic exegesis, there's a really clever suggestion here on the future of
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THE WIND THAT MELTS THE ICE: REFLECTIONS ON THE SCALE OF PHILOLOGY - Lurie -
@histandtheojrnl.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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THE WIND THAT MELTS THE ICE: REFLECTIONS ON THE SCALE OF PHILOLOGY
The global history of philology, like that of writing systems and other technologies, is characterized by diffusion and adaptation. These processes are made more difficult to grasp if we maintain a p...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hith.70006?campaign=wolearlyview
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Arthur Urbano
12 days ago
Late Antiquity/Early Christian Studies scholars: how many different "imaginations" has our field explored? I'm thinking: sensory imagination, olfactory imagination, corporeal imagination. Which others am I missing? (context: I'm proposing another in my next project, so am compiling this list)
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him)
12 days ago
my already pretty reasonably priced LIFE OF THECLA translation/introduction is now UNreasonably cheap with the code CONFSHIP! $9.50! I think it includes US shipping? stocking stuffers for all of your apocrypha lovers!
wipfandstock.com/978166674640...
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The Life of Thecla- Wipf and Stock Publishers
Thecla was one of the most venerated saints in late antiquity. One of her followers created the Life of Thecla as an act of devotion in the fifth century, re...
https://wipfandstock.com/9781666746402/the-life-of-thecla/
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Melissa Kutner
15 days ago
CFP sure to be of interest to many: Slavery and Humanity Revisited: The Impact of Slave Systems on Personal Experience (for the Symposium Vesuvianum at the Villa Vergiliana)
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Symposium Vesuvianum 2026 - The Vergilian Society
Slavery and Humanity Revisited: The Impact of Slave Systems on Personal Experience Villa Vergiliana, Cumae (October 7 – 11, 2026) Organizers: John Bodel, Brown University; William Owens, Ohio Universi...
https://www.vergiliansociety.org/symposium-vesuvianum-2026/
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Penn Religious Studies
15 days ago
A reminder that we have no colloquium event this week! However, our affiliated program, the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins, is holding a book event on Zoom with Prof. Ellen Muehlberger (Michigan) from 6:30–8:00 pm on Thursday, Oct. 30. Details here:
rels.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...
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Annette Yoshiko Reed
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What’s better than Nancy Partner in History & Theory reflecting on Philology? Open access too!
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HISTORY AND THEORY AND PHILOLOGY NOW: TOGETHER IN THEORY
In English-speaking academe, philology has virtually disappeared as a defined discipline, although its traditional array of skills and techniques for reading, editing, and interpreting texts are indi...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hith.70010?campaign=wolearlyview&ai=2b2j&ui=63rs6&af=H
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Ennius
25 days ago
18th October is the feast of St Luke the Evangelist. Here is his symbol and the initial 'q'(uoniam) of his gospel in the 'Echternach Gospels'. BnF MS Latin 9389; the 'Echternach Gospels'; c.700 CE; ff.115v-116r
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Sarah E. Bond
25 days ago
Our new volume 📖 , Writing Enslavement, is out now—physical and digital. the editors,
@jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social
,
@candidamoss.bsky.social
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@illdottore.bsky.social
, put an amazing amount of work into a volume that is both slavery studies and book history.
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Sarah Porter
26 days ago
Archivist position at The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe:
careers.harvard.edu/job/archivis...
#historyjobs
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Ellen Muehlberger
28 days ago
Please reskeet: CFP is open for the North American Patristics Society meeting, May 21-23, 2026 in Chicago Submit abstracts either for the general call or to a pre-arranged theme, or you can submit a whole planned session! Deadline is Nov 19th, details at link:
www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...
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Call for Papers – NAPS – The North American Patristics Society
https://www.patristics.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/
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Yale Divinity School
27 days ago
If you missed last week's Beecher Lectures by the amazing Hortense Spillers, or you simply want to hear them again, here's your chance. Video of all three lectures now released on the YDS YouTube channel.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Beecher Lectures
The Lyman Beecher Lectureship was founded in 1871 by a gift from Henry W. Sage of Brooklyn, NY, as a memorial to the great divine whose name it bears, to spo...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbQINmUy3n7Yzm9pO4gO1BnZFAr14j5Ng
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Dr. Chance Bonar
27 days ago
God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with
@universitypress.cambridge.org
! I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy! Book info here:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
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Excited to be presenting at this conference at UCLA this weekend!
www.cmrs.ucla.edu/event/post-c...
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Post-Classical Libraries Conference - UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
Libraries occupied a central place in the organization and reproduction of pre-modern knowledge cultures. Texts had been assembled in archives of various kinds from the Bronze Age, but most were...
https://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/event/post-classical-libraries/
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Christy Cobb
28 days ago
My recent volume, Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts, is currently on sale through Amazon for only $4. If you’re interested, here’s the link!
a.co/d/2CiYMh6
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https://a.co/d/2CiYMh6
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him)
29 days ago
NAPS! Call for papers! 13 (!!) amazing looking thematic sessions to apply to, plus the general call for papers!
www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...
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Call for Papers – NAPS – The North American Patristics Society
https://www.patristics.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/
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Excited to be presenting at this conference at UCLA this weekend!
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Post-Classical Libraries Conference - UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
Libraries occupied a central place in the organization and reproduction of pre-modern knowledge cultures. Texts had been assembled in archives of various kinds from the Bronze Age, but most were...
https://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/event/post-classical-libraries/
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Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop
28 days ago
"In 4 exploratory essays a seasoned historian
@emuehlbe.bsky.social
examines the mechanisms by which ancient people came to have knowledge—not of the world and its myriad processes but abt something more intimate...the individuals they encountered in close quarters, those they knew in everyday life"
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Ellen Muehlberger
29 days ago
Usually, to show an author love, the first rule is: buy the book. And, you can totally buy this book---but, it's also available OA, which means you can in a few weeks' time get it for free.
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
So, the updated rule: to show an author love, get her book and read it!
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Things Unseen | University of California Press
How do you know the nature of another person: who she is, or what she is capable of? In four exploratory essays, a seasoned historian examines the mechanisms by which ancient people came to have knowl...
https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
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Dr Lewis Webb
30 days ago
I am deeply honoured that the American Journal of Philology awarded my article 'Spectatissima femina: Female visibility and religion in urban spaces in Republican Rome' the AJP Best Article Prize for 2024. Citation:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
#AncientBlueSky
#ClassicsBlueSky
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Rare Book School
about 1 month ago
The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at RBS invites applicants to its 2025 cohort of Junior Fellows. Applications are due 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿. For details about this & other RBS scholarships & fellowships, visit
tinyurl.com/Apply-SoFCB-2025
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Lauren Randall
about 1 month ago
CFP: “Shaping the Word: the Form and Use of Biblical Manuscripts in the Early Medieval West” at Durham University in July 2026. We are interested in a wide range of papers exploring ways in which scriptural texts (produced roughly c. 500-1000) were presented and used.
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Sarah E. Bond
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The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! This week, art historian Lachelle Oglesby discusses obelisks, Roman colonialism, & the AAR summer school. Then, a video game on repatriation, the Nubian ivory trade, a new Roman wood workshop, new ancient world journals by
@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social
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Pasts Imperfect (10.9.25)
This week, art historian and AAR Classical Summer School attendee Lachelle Oglesby discusses obelisks, Roman colonialism, and lived experiences in ancient Rome. Then, a new video game allows you to "r...
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperfect-10-9-25/
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James Harland
about 1 month ago
Reposting because this ought to get more views.
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Sarah E. Bond
about 1 month ago
In the new issue of the Journal of Early Christian Studies (JECS), ancient med scholar Katherine Beydler & I have a new review of _Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean 500 BCE–600 CE: A Sourcebook_ by Kristi Upson-Saia, Heidi Marx, & Jared Secord
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him)
about 1 month ago
hey, my review of Paula Fredriksen's ANCIENT CHRISTIANITIES is out in the new Journal of Early Christian Studies! (spoiler: it's good)
muse.jhu.edu/article/970939
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Project MUSE - <i>Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years</i> by Paula Fredriksen (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970939
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Frédérique Rey
about 2 months ago
6 years POSTOC in Biblical Studies - Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) at Humboldt University Berlin More details here:
haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) auf dem Gebiet der Biblischen Theologie max. befristet für 6 Jahre gem. WissZeitVG - E 13 TV-L
https://haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/stellenausschreibungen/an33425
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Alexi Chantziantoniou
6 months ago
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...
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Paul within Paganism: Restoring the Mediterranean Context to the Apostle
Leading and rising scholars introduce a burgeoning new approach to the study of Paul, which situates the Jewish apostle to gentiles within the wider world of ancient Mediterranean religion.
https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9798889834267/Paul-within-Paganism
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Sarah E. Bond
about 2 months ago
The Association of Ancient Historians meeting will be in Iowa City from April 16-18, 2026. For those new to the AAH, we have preset panel themes; you pick 1 to apply to. The theme overall is Ancient Exchanges in a Global Antiquity. See CFP: abstracts are due by December 1.
aah.conference.uiowa.edu
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AAH Annual Conference 2026 | The University of Iowa
The 2026 AAH Annual Meeting will take place in person at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA from April 16-18, 2026. We invite abstracts for papers of 15-20 minutes in length. Please submit anonym...
https://aah.conference.uiowa.edu/
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Jennifer Barry
about 1 month ago
Also, if you are a
#NAPS
member, I have linked to a live stream. It was supposed to posted on the website, but for some reason it is not there... hm. It is 5PM EST so please send a DM if you'd like a link
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