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?

Looking forward to this conversation! Come join us!

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.

SBL friends, join us for a field trip! 🎒

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.

This year at #AARSBL, the #AncientEducation and #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 1/

Professor of New Testament, Wycliffe College, Toronto, Canada. FT. Deadline: December 12, 2025. nt4ox.link/wycliffeTO26

Delighted to dive into this new monograph from Sam Johnson: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

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:

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!

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...

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...

Exegesis and Reception of the Psalms, 1st International Göttingen Conference on the Septuagint, September 2–5, 2026 septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/conference20...

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...

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...

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...

Working on some aspect of clothing in #LateAntiquity? Going to NAPS? Submit a proposal to the @catacombsociety.bsky.social organized panel!

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

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)!

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 papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;...

amid fascinating work on 12th c. developments in Chinese & Japanese poetic exegesis, there's a really clever suggestion here on the future of #philology THE WIND THAT MELTS THE ICE: REFLECTIONS ON THE SCALE OF PHILOLOGY - Lurie - @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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)

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...

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) www.vergiliansociety.org/symposium-ve...

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/...

What’s better than Nancy Partner in History & Theory reflecting on Philology? Open access too! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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 @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Our new volume 📖 , Writing Enslavement, is out now—physical and digital. the editors, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, @candidamoss.bsky.social, and @illdottore.bsky.social, put an amazing amount of work into a volume that is both slavery studies and book history. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Archivist position at The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe: careers.harvard.edu/job/archivis... #historyjobs

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...

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...

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...

Excited to be presenting at this conference at UCLA this weekend! www.cmrs.ucla.edu/event/post-c...

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

NAPS! Call for papers! 13 (!!) amazing looking thematic sessions to apply to, plus the general call for papers! www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...

Excited to be presenting at this conference at UCLA this weekend! www.cmrs.ucla.edu/event/post-c...

"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"

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!

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 #BlueSkyClassics

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

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.

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 & much more.

Reposting because this ought to get more views.

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 muse.jhu.edu/search?actio...

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

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/...

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...

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

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