I have had such productive exchanges, including major grant writing, with colleagues from Exeter. If you have not already done so, consider signing this petition for theology and religious studies (docs.google.com/document/d/1.... ) and for the humanities (c.org/JFDSQr2WYV).

Just over a week left to apply! www.kuleuven.be/lectio/event...

It's true! Villanova is hiring a tenure-track position in Eastern Christianity! Please share far and wide. aarsbl.org/job/tenure-t...

Heute ist Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften #lndw @bbaw.bsky.social Bei uns gibt es eine Führung (21:30/22:30 Uhr): Was machen wir eigentlich, wenn wir spätantike Texte edieren? Welche Methoden wenden wir an? Und welche Rolle spielt moderne Computertechnik? www.tagesspiegel.de/themenspezia...

📖New book! Edited by John-Paul Ghobrial, Michael A. Reynolds, Christian C. Sahner & Jack Tannous, it reimagines the history of the region by integrating Christian experiences and sources📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-christi...

Come work with the CLAIM team in the new ERC project in Vienna! Apply here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct... Details CLAIM.univie.ac.at/ @erc.europa.eu | @univie.ac.at | @etf-univienna.bsky.social

Come join us in Leuven for our Summer School on translations!

Our team at KU Leuven is organizing a Workshop on Letters & Epistolary Culture in Syriac Christianity at the Oxford Patristic Studies Conference (2–6 Aug 2027). We will be happy to receive proposals for papers by 30 June 2026 ([email protected]). Details in the attached file.

Christians in Middle Eastern History Ghobrial, John-Paul, Michael Reynolds, Christian C. Sahner & Jack Tannous (eds.). 2026. Christians in Middle Eastern history: Strangers no more (Edinburgh Studies in Middle Eastern Christianity). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. The dazzling array of…

Proofs have arrived. Looking forward to the end product in early July!

Tomorrow!!!

Free access link to my own contribution - on why Gregory of Nyssa has quite so much to say about cinnamon: online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article/...

Great project (Women in Syriac Christianity, 1500-1800) directed by Lucy Parker (Oxford), looking for a postdoctoral researcher interested in Arabic manuscripts my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

The Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, has been extended to 11:59PM ET on March 9. Don't miss this chance to engage the global community of biblical scholarship. buff.ly/4hRL28M

Last day to submit a proposal!

Still a few days to submit a proposal for the Syriac Studies program unit at SBL, including a joint session with the Religious World of Late Antiquity program unit!

Come work with some of my fantastic colleagues in @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! A full-time, four-year PhD vacancy in Latin Patristic Literature/Theology KU Leuven. Please spread the word! theo.kuleuven.be/apps/joboppo... @kuleuventheology.bsky.social

PhD Scholarship in Theology, Religious Studies or Slavic Studies at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of KU Leuven: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

I have been informed by the good folks at @gorgiaspress.bsky.social that my translation of the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch (aka 2 Baruch) is officially in print, though I don't have a hard copy yet. Here's a link: www.gorgiaspress.com/maccabees-3-...

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.

One more week to apply!

I am happy to share an advertisement for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven project "Commentary on John of Ephesus's Ecclesiastical History." The deadline is 23 July 2025, and the position is to be filled from 1 October 2025. Please feel free to contact me or Hartmut Leppin with questions.

For about the last five years, I have been working on the translation and translation cultures of Christian communities in late antiquity, seeking especially to bring together the Latin and Greek evidence with that found in eastern Christian languages. The first two articles have finally appeared.

Next week in Palermo!

Very glad to see this volume, which I had the honour and the pleasure of co-editing with Julia Doroszewska, the prime mover of the project, from the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw, being released today by @brepols.bsky.social

L’Académie Belge pour l’Étude des Langues Anciennes et Orientales (ABELAO) a le plaisir de vous inviter à son école d’été, qui se tiendra à Louvain-la-Neuve du 29 juillet au 8 août. Plus de détails et inscriptions sur www.abelao.eu

Very much looking forward to the visit of the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, Mar Awa III, to Leuven on Monday, February 24th! If you are in the area, please feel free to come (you can register via this website through February 20th). theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...

Looking forward to the conference "In Search of Moderation: Reassessing the Theological Center in the Post-Chalcedonian Christological Debates" starting today at KU Leuven! Poster and program are attached below.

Delighted to celebrate our faculty colleague Jos Verheyden, who has been bestowed with an honorary doctorate—a well-deserved recognition of his career and of his sharp, critical, yet always constructive perspective! Congratulations! 🎉 #HonoraryDoctorate romkat.ro/2024/11/22/b...

Most of you here probably already have a degree, but if you know students interested in a(nother) degree in theology and religious studies, check out the KU Leuven Webinar Days (Nov. 27-28) and explore our Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies (Nov. 27, 4 pm; Nov. 28, 9 am) t.co/0vyamr6ZaR

Looking forward to the workshop "Translations in Coptic Egypt" at KU Leuven 24 June 2024 (with @danbatovici.bsky.social @greggiven.bsky.social @drkimfowler.bsky.social Luise Frenkel, and Nathan Carlig)

One more day!

Just under a week until the submission deadline! Please send me a message with any questions.

I am happy to announce a vacancy for a full-time PhD Position at the Faculty of Theology at KU Leuven focused on the Letters of Philoxenus of Mabbug. Applications will be accepted until May 22, 2024. For more information see: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

New issue of Journal of Early Christian Studies-Volume 32, No. 1 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/52259 @hopkinspress.bsky.social

The new issue of the Journal of Eastern Christian Studies has just been published! Studies on the reception of Aristotle in medieval Syriac theology, relations between the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches, and recent Ukrainian Orthodox history: t.co/xTck4C6vgu

Looking forward to this workshop in Leuven next month!

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