Hot off the press! The new issue of JECS! muse.jhu.edu/issue/56477

Some more info about the Addison Wheeler postdoctoral fellowship scheme @durham.ac.uk. There will be up to 6 positions across all subjects, and each department can only nominate 3 candidates, so we will need to run a preliminary stage to make our selection. 1/3 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

@zacharyherz.bsky.social explains his new book in this engaging conversation: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

friends! come work with me and the amazing folks on this team at UVA! happy to answer any questions about the position, feel free to reach out! jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

For #CoffeeWithACodex on February 26, curator @leoba.bsky.social#CoffeeWithACodexwill bring out a selection of manuscripts from Ethiopia, including a prayer book, an illustrated protective roll, and a liturgical book. (The mss are 19th c but still #medievalsky) Register here: https://bit.ly/3MAE2oE

Tomorrow (2/19) I’ll be presenting on “Synoptic Work: Roman Slavery, Gospel Writing, and Historical Imagination” at Duke’s Elizabeth A. Clark Center for Late Ancient Studies. Please join us if you can! See the attached poster (or alt text) for details.

Visited the Cairo Geniza collection in the Cambridge UL for the first time today. Almost lost for words at the amount and diversity of materials, languages and scripts. Herewith my photo of a Hebrew primer used in 10th century Egypt to teach kids to write

2026-28/29 Postdoc in Early Christian Studies, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Part of project "Ethnicity and (In)Equality in Early Christianity". FT/fixed term: 2 years renewable for Year 3. Deadline 8 March. nt4ox.link/radboud-PDF26

The Institute for Ideas and Imagination has posted a lecture I gave in September on extractivism, ”AI”, and book slavery in Ancient Rome on their podcast feed. open.spotify.com/episode/5cGH...

Many thanks to Columbia Classics for the opportunity to present some of my current research on Friday as part of their departmental lecture series! It was a delight to have such an incisive and engaged audience. classics.columbia.edu/events/2026/...

‘We like lists because we don’t want to die’, said Umberto Eco. What drives our deep fascination with lists? PhD researcher Michael Hensley explores the meaning of Ethiopian and Eritrean book lists, offering glimpses into communities that would otherwise be lost: uhh.de/csmc-hensley

Heads up! Our next VECSS meeting is just around the corner

📯It's (already) #SBL2026 Time!⏰ The SBL Unit "Ancient Education" led by @monikaamsler.bsky.social @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social Coogan has a terrific program, and will host three sessions: Letter-Writing and Education; Magical Texts and Education; Education and Emotion. Send us an abstract!

The Digital Medievalist Postgraduate Committee invites you to Coding Codices Live: Medieval March - a series of beginner-friendly workshops to help you start using digital methods with medieval sources. Open to MA students, PhDs & early-career researchers. 🗓️ Register by Feb 23 🔗 lnkd.in/dbJS2YhE

My analysis of the integral and overlooked relationship between religion and detective fiction, focusing on Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man, is now live on @plough.bsky.social's website! www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

This article, published a couple of years ago, co-authored with @au.dk's Elisa Uusimäki and part of @kelsbot.bsky.social's special issue on pseudepigraphy is now fully Open Access (thanks to Elisa's ERC project ANINAN)! Take a look. www.mohrsiebeck.com/artikel/trav...

Hi, I am trying to access a manuscript held at the (Greek Orthodox) Jerusalem Patriarchal library. I wrote and received no response. Does anyone have experience with this library or know someone I can contact, please?

CfP on a marvelous topic, imho, especially because I organise the conference myself (with Sébastien Moureau): "Verbositas Arabica, implicatio Graeca, paucitas Latina. Multilingual Text Traditions in the Middle Ages (8th–14th Century)" (20–22 Jan 2027). #medievalsky hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...

Katherine McDonald’s truly marvelous “Four footprints, two languages, one tile”deserves your time: “Two slaves, working in conditions that were no doubt very difficult, taking a little time to mess about as friends and enjoy each other’s company.” katherinemcdonald.net/2016/01/14/f...

February 4, 134 CE: A collective of nine scribes 🖋️ —named Diogenes, Euporos, Mystes, Marion, Sarapion, Sabinus, Herakleides, Harpokration, and Heliodoros—in Ptolemais Euergetis (Roman Egypt) sign a contract to copy gvmt tax & census lists (P. Mich 11 603): papyri-prod.lib.duke.edu/ddbdp/p.mich...

proofs! thanks to @greggiven.bsky.social & @danielpicus.bsky.social for inviting me to their show!

The Royal Ontario Museum added thousands of objects to their only museum catalogue last year—which now totals almost 90,000 objects. My favorite remains this late antique child’s sock from Roman Egypt. 🧦 collections.rom.on.ca/objects/3736... The ancient world was full of kids and color.

The Department of Theology at Marquette University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in New Testament beginning August 2026. employment.marquette.edu/postings/242...

If you missed Ann Blair’s @ransomcenter.bsky.social Pforzheimer Lecture last night, you can check it out on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/u16QHaI... I think you’ll agree that it’s both sharp and a lot of fun.

Very pleased to be able to finally announce "The Critical Edition in the Infrastructure of Philology," a special issue of Philological Encounters edited by me and @danielpicus.bsky.social out this Spring.

Our forum on the new translation of Origen's Contra Celsum continues with a piece from David Satran, "Plato, Politics, and Faith" #lateantiquity #Origen www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/9/...

New pod! Mike talks to Christopher Bonura about A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination If you're liking the show, please rate and review! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... open.spotify.com/show/6uGXkAl...

📖 Reflections on Bibliographical Work: What Is a Bibliographical Note? 📖 Learn more in @wynkenhimself.bsky.social's article in the December 2025 issue of PBSA. Read the full article in our latest issue: Link in Bio 🔗 🔍 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738983

Please share widely! 3-year Postdoc in Early Christian Studies. Deadline: 8 March. Let me know if you have any questions or want to nominate a colleague.

The most exciting #BookHistory talk of the season is coming up next week! Join us @ransomcenter.bsky.social or online as Ann Blair delivers the 2026 Pforzheimer lecture. This talk has Erasmus, Gessner, and volumes both large &small! Learn more: www.eventbrite.com/e/pforzheime... #booksky 🗃️📜📚

Early career scholars in religious studies: Consider applying for the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise! The deadline for the 2027 Award is June 15, 2026. The Award is given to 10 scholars, and each receives a prize of € 3,000. More details: fiit-heidelberg.de/awards/laute...

travis proctor is going to visit my demonology seminar this term, and talk about a silver lining, y’all. check out his book:

Congrats to all @scsclassics.bsky.social outreach award winners last night! Outreach sustains our field and grows our community to include everyone interested in the ancient world. Can’t thank @candidamoss.bsky.social, Anne Groton, @lexie-henning.bsky.social, & @tastinghistory.bsky.social enough.

Pasts Imperfect is back from break! This week, we focus on AI ethics and labor with @illdottore.bsky.social, Christine Johnston & Leigh Anne Lieberman. Then, ancient bees in jawbones, Roman camels in Basel, a book on temple robbery, new ancient world journals @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & much more

Apply to be the 2026-7 Munby Fellow in bibliography and history of the book @theul.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ688/m...

It’s here! I’m delighted to share a new theme issue of @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social, “Philology Now.” Valeria López Fadul and I edited this issue, featuring smart contributions by Emily Apter, Peter de Bolla, Alan Durston, Cymone Fourshey, Claire Gilbert, Anthony Grafton… historyandtheory.org/64-4

Seeing lots of folks incorporating "critical university studies" lessons into their spring classes. For what it's worth, my 2022 Redesigning the Academy class site is totally open, and I've got a bunch of relevant (open) Arena channels, too... [1/2] redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/

My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com

2026 Grawemeyer religion award honors ‘God’s Ghostwriters’ Biblical scholar Candida Moss wins the 2026 Grawemeyer Award for "God’s Ghostwriters," highlighting enslaved collaborators who helped shape the New Testament. @candidamoss.bsky.social

So excited to see Susan Harvey's new book out this month! And it's available for free download! www.ucpress.edu/books/minist...

A compelling interview with the brilliant Ellen Muehlberger about her new book. So many great insights!!

Die Uni Frankfurt richtet ein neues LOEWE-Zentrum „Dynamiken des Religiösen: Ambivalente Nachbarschaften zwischen Judentum, Christentum und Islam in historischen und gegenwärtigen Konstellationen“ ein, und hat zur Zeit 25(!) Promotions- und Postdoc-Stellen ausgeschrieben, viele auch offen für […]

Congratulations to James Ker, Andrew Laird, and Julia Mebane, this year's recipients of the Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society for Classical Studies! And thanks to Andrew Riggsby and the rest of the committee for their work!

Call for Papers: Scribes, Transmission, and Bilingual Traditions: A Fresh Examination of GA 629, 10-12 June 2026, Irish College, Leuven. Proposals due Dec 31, 2025.

I’ve put together a list of funding sources for graduate students in biblical studies and early Christianity. Most of these are only available to students in the U.S. but many of them don’t have citizenship requirements. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

📣Did you read someone's great first article from either 2024 or 2025? Is the author a NAPS member? Would they like cash money? Nominate them by sending a PDF of their piece to [email protected] by January 31, 2026 Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!

Interesting review of what seems like a fascinating book. One of the major conclusions-- that painters were flexible, small-scale, and itinerant and could not make enough to live on just a Pompeii-- fits well with increased attention to mobility & with Kim Bowes'... bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.12...

⭐ The inaugural RAFFAELLA CRIBIORE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING TRANSLATION from the Society for Classical Studies has just been announced ⭐ C. Luke Soucy, *Ovid's Metamorphoses* (University of California Press, 2023).