A couple of my Tabor College students are in the UK on a biblical and theological studies research trip… look what they found at @tyndalehouse.bsky.social! Two fresh studies on GJohn, both by Erics! What a fun “in the wild” book spotting 📕👀 Honored to share the shelf with Eric Zito.

New release 📚 John as Divine Romance 💌 Eric Foster-Whiddon compares how recognition, beauty, travel, and love function as intertextual frames frames that pressure the reader to infer meaning in the Gospel of John and the Greek novel Callirhoe. Read more here 🔗 brill.com/display/ti...

News from the Bible & Theology department at Tabor College. taborcollegebibletheology.substack.com/p/bt-newslet...

News from the Graduate Studies in Ministry program at Tabor College. taborcollegegsm.substack.com/p/gsm-newsle...

Heading back to the UK soon for graduation and a few research presentations. Many thanks to London School of Theology and the Schools of Divinity at University of St Andrews and University of Aberdeen for having me. Paper titles below… (1/3)

Happy and humbled to report that my doctoral thesis will be published in the Biblical Interpretation series. Fingers crossed that “John as Divine Romance: Reading the Fourth Gospel with the Ancient Novel” makes an appearance at SBL 2025! @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social

Looking forward to this, both the tea and the read! ☕️📖 @andyjudd.bsky.social

Every academic right now

How I love ending feedback on exegetical papers with “You should be proud of this.”

Real-time reactions from grading papers… a freshman in my 100-level Intro to NT class (who is not a Bible & Theology major) references Stendhal and discusses the Damascus road Christophany as Paul’s prophetic call (contra conversion) and I AM SO HAPPY! Huzzah! She found this via her own research!

Instead of listening to papers at #SBLAAR24, I’m grading a stack of papers… most of which are the first attempts of undergrads at doing a baby exegesis assignment. It’s actually encouraging; lots have made good effort and are showing progress!

Bible nerds… what NT (or other BibStudies-related) books are you excited about this year that should be on my radar? I’m missing #SBLAAR24 but plan to assuage the FOMO by taking advantage of publishers’ online discount codes.

Anybody made a BibStudies starter pack yet?

An unexpected benefit of the PhD journey is the secondhand elation I feel when a friend passes a viva or lands an academic job. It’s a nice counter-balance in a space that can be so anxiety ridden.

~1400 words today, thinking about the Odyssey, Callirhoe, and the Gospel of John. It’s slow, tedious, fun work.

~500 words yesterday, ~1100 today. Feels good to see months of research shape up into an argument on a page. It’s been unusually hard to get into a writing headspace for this chapter.