I am offering two doctoral positions (65%) in the Junior Research Group “Sustainability in Translation” (buff.ly/HULoKXy) at the University of Würzburg in Germany. 1. buff.ly/6M9fEyk 2. buff.ly/Mq4uuAm (both until 06.01.2026) Please share widely. #TranslationStudies #ClassicalReceptionStudies #DH

I am so excited to share news of this volume, which is soon to be released online, which I have co-edited with Alex Kirk for HEBAI 'Does Wisdom have a Sense of Humour?: Exploring Humour in Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes, and Cognate Literatures'.

Next Monday!

Feel so seen...

At a Coldplay concert reading the 8th volume of Gerhard Kittel’s Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament and shaking my head the whole time so the people who see me on the Kiss Cam know I disagree with it.

Come and join us for our next conference, in Metz - 5-6 November 2025 : Transmission, Variation, Transformation of Deuterocanonical Literature. @univlorraine.bsky.social @theologies.bsky.social

Mal nebenbei keine problematischen Stereotype über das AT reproduzieren - für die evangelische Zentrale für Weltanschauungsfragen ein unmögliches Unterfangen.

1977 divided by 3 is 659 with no remainder

And this will be part 2 of my short, sweet return to Old Greek Job!

Very excited for next week's conference! etfat.univie.ac.at/news/aktuell...

#ancientbluesky #romanhistory #skystorians In AD 197, one Gemellus Horion, a farmer in Karanis, Egypt, filed a series of petitions in which he describes a terrifying series of events. Two men, Julius and Sotas had, he claimed, come onto his land and attacked his labourer with something awful. 🧵

Liebe deutsche/Schweizer Bibelwissenschaftskolleg:innen: Ich suche jemanden vielleicht auf der fortgeschrittenen PostDoc-Stufe, der/die als Spezialgebiet Qumrantexte hat? Für eine kleine Fortbildung für Neutestamentler:innen. Meine Recherche/Anfragen waren nicht sonderlich erfolgreich bis jetzt.

And here it is, my greatest article title to date: “The Booty Call: Plundering as (Dis)assemblage in the Book of Judith.” Here Katia and I get into a range of meanings that plunder and artefact manipulation for Judith’s capture and dedication of Holofernes’ items brill.com/view/journal...

"Mit ihrem Buch ist den Autorinnen ein wichtiger Beitrag zur kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte gelungen. Angesichts des um sich greifenden Niedergangs an den theologischen Ausbildungsstätten, fragt man sich, ob es nicht längst an der Zeit ist, auch anderen Konstellationen ein solches Denkmal zu setzen."

I got my copy of Speaking to Job in Greek signed by the author! @maxavenariolus.bsky.social @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social #IOSOT2025

IOSOT main paper by Prof Yuval Gadot (Tel Aviv University) on Jerusalem excavations here in Berlin #IOSOT2025

On my way to #IOSOT and @ioscs.bsky.social !

Having enjoyed a few such threads, let’s do a “for every like I’ll post something I find interesting about ancient Judaism” thread.

When AI people dream of PhD level performances, this is what they have in mind: a heavenly connected, winged writing hand.

Why do you hate free books? Oh, you don't? Then why haven't you downloaded mine yet? It's free, you can nab it even if you never intend to read it! Then one day maybe you find it nestled snugly in your hard drive, open it, and lose yourself in its intoxicating academic prose.

Biblical scholars love to find an inscription that says “Only the LORD is God” and say “Actually, that presupposes polytheism.”

Here we are at #LXXD25 in schöne Städte Wuppertal with beautiful German summer weather. Today and tomorrow are parallel sessions. Lots of LXX and @ioscs.bsky.social friends here and new faces. Thank you, KiHoWuppertal!

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.

Stuttgarter Psalter, f.27r Ps 21(22),22LXX σῶσόν με ἐκ στόματος λέοντος καὶ ἀπὸ κεράτων μονοκερώτων τὴν ταπείνωσίν μου. "Save me from the mouth of the lion, and from the horns of the unicorns my humbleness" digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/index.php?id...

Stuttgarter Psalter, f.27r Ps 21(22),22LXX σῶσόν με ἐκ στόματος λέοντος καὶ ἀπὸ κεράτων μονοκερώτων τὴν ταπείνωσίν μου. "Save me from the mouth of the lion, and from the horns of the unicorns my humbleness" digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/index.php?id...

📢 Einladung zum Vortrag: "Ideale Weiblichkeit in sumerischen Frauenstreitgesprächen" 🗓 14.07.2025, 18:15 Uhr 📍Am Bruderhof 1, Burkardushaus & online 🎙 Prof. Dr. Jana Matuszak (University of Chicago) www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/altorientali...

Aus Eduard Königs Theologie des AT, 3. Aufl 1923: "Denn das in den Schwingungen des Äthers zu uns getragene und oft in sieben Farben sich differenzierende Licht setzt außer dem Medium, in welchem es schwingt und zerlegt wird, noch etwas voraus, und das ift der Anstoß zu jenen Ätherschwingungen.

Come study with us! Fully-funded Ph.D. scholarship opportunity to work on the Late Antique translation of texts. www.acu.edu.au/research-and...

My review of Jennifer Brown Jones' book "Translation and Style in the Old Greek Psalter: What Pleases Israel's God" has been published by RBL. My verdict: An important contribution to the study of literary features in LXX texts and moves the conversation forward. www.sblcentral.org/home/bookDet...

You: take 2 hours to run 20 kms. Me: take 12 minutes to drive 20 kms in my Dodge Grand Caravan. And then I drink beer for 108 minutes.

You're asking the wrong questions, dear critics.

“I asked chatgpt” “I asked grok” I asked the diseased liver of a sacrificed lamb. We are not the same.

We'd probably get close to finding out where P ends

die Klippdachse - ein schwaches Volk, dennoch bauen sie ihr Haus in den Felsen

Looking forward to discussing Joel's book on the LXX Covenant Code on Monday! It is indeed "von außergewöhnlicher wissenschaftlicher Qualität und dürfte einen nicht geringen Einfluss auf die weitere Entwicklung der Septuaginta-Forschung haben" (E. Otto, ThLZ 2024/9)

Joseph Zieglers "Einheit der Septuaginta zum Zwölfprophetenbuch" ist forschungsgeschichtlich ein Meilenstein; aber dass die ursprüngliche Veröffentlichung als "Beilage zum Vorlesungsverzeichnis der Staatl. Akademie Braunsberg/Ostpr." erfolgte, zeigt doch, wie viel sich beim Publizieren geändert hat

I'm looking forward to this exciting conference in beautiful Leuven next month! "Power and Leadership: Biblical, Anthropological and Practical-Theological Perspectives" theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...

Virtual Seminar: The Septuagint in Modern Research, May 26, 2025, 15:00 BST: Joel Korytko will present on "How LXX Exodus Adapts the Covenant Code towards Greco-Egyptian Law"

Here, have a fierce looking thirteenth century unicorn San Giovanni Evangelista, Ravenna

Feb 2026! 😍 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

Update: Past Wednesday I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation “A Human God? A Comparative Analysis of the Anthropomorphisms of the Hebrew and Greek Pentateuch”, and I now am a Doctor in Theology 🤩 beyond grateful to all those who supported me throughout this journey 💖

Unfortunately today @copticscript.bsky.social received a notice that our NEH grant has been cancelled. Please be assured that we are not pulling down our sites! We hope to have more information soon as we figure out our next steps

"Lesefrüchte", "Miscellanea", "Observationes aliquot" ...

“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.” A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.

Wann bringt die ZAW einzelseitige Artikel mit Titeln wie "Spr. 10,1. 25,1" (16/1896, S. 122), oder "Sonderbare Psalmenakrosticha" (ebd., S. 40) zurück?

My favorite example of pre-determined fields of study is Jürgen Einhorn's art historical work on the unicorn:

Very excited for this upcoming series!

Virtual Seminar: The Septuagint in Modern Research, March 10, 2025 15:00 GMT: Beatrice Bonnano will present on "The Septuagint of Ruth"