Sarah E. Rollens
@apocalypsenow5.bsky.social
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College. PhD in the Study of Religion (EC&NT), University of Toronto & Centre for Jewish Studies (2013).
Congratulations to all contributors to Judeophobia and the New Testament: Texts and Contexts! We’re honoured to have been awarded 1st place in the category of Scripture — Academic Studies in the Catholic Media Association’s 2026 Book Awards. 🏆📖🍾 @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social @evandeneykel.bsky.social
Indeed, it’s beautiful!
Dr Meredith JC Warren@drmjcwarren.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe are thrilled with this gorgeous cover for our forthcoming book, Avoiding Antisemitism: A Guide for Christians! Thanks to the team at @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social for making it happen (again!) @evandeneykel.bsky.social @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social
Posting again for visibility: Rhodes College is hiring a 2-year VAP, cross-appointed in Religious Studies and Africana Studies. Review of applications starts Mar. 9. Please share with your networks! Thank you! rhodes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Rhodes...
SBL annual meeting CFP is up! Here’s the Historical Jesus unit CFP. Please take special note of #2 (bc there's a lot of space for innovative approaches/topics! Also, keep in mind that JSHJ is interested in work on reception history too!). And as always, an open session! The call closes Mar. 4.
My department is hiring a 2-year VAP in Religious Studies & Africana Studies (cross-appointed in both programs). Interdisciplinary teaching is a huge plus! rhodes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Rhodes...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies
Job Title: Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies Department: Urban Studies Job Description: The Religious Studies Department and Africana Studies Program at Rhodes Col...
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I read the RBL review of _Judeophobia and the NT_ about 3 times to make sure I didn’t overlook an incisive critique of something we got wrong. But each time, all I found was a kind, complimentary reflection 🥹 Deepest thanks to Paula Fredriksen for this review—and to the many contributors! ❤️
If someone in your life is a teacher or school support staff, make sure they have this new resource from @unitedwedream.org, @nilc.org, @aft.org on how they can create a safe and supportive environment for all their students. It’s so good.
Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff
This guide was created for educators, school support staff and service providers who teach, mentor and help open the doors of opportunity for immigrant students and families. Educators, school support...
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Psssst! Just dropping by with a periodic reminder that if you’ve written anything about Jesus (including historical, metacritical, and reception-focused work), we’d love for you to submit it to JSHJ! Refresh yourself on some of our current interests here: brill.com/view/journal...
a painting of jesus with the word no underneath him
ALT: a painting of jesus with the word no underneath him
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Circulating this growing list of women NT/EC scholars again if any one else wants to add their name! Please share if you can! tinyurl.com/WomenNTECsch...
Women Scholars of NT and Early Christianity
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I was on Biblical Time Machine talking about our book, Judeophobia and the New Testament — take a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @evandeneykel.bsky.social @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social
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Podcast Episode · Biblical Time Machine · 05/26/2025 · 52m
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No words. “Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status,” the US Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.” www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u...
Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students | CNN
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, marking a sharp escalation in the ongoing back-and-forth between the White House and the uni...
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Italy CFP! The unit that I co-chair invites you to think about how biblical resources both contain and also have been used for (i.e., reception history) various forms of social and political conflict. In other words, the options are...wide-ranging, to say the least! cissr.net/call-for-pap...
Programme Units
For general information about the CISSR Annual Meeting on Christian Origins, see “Annual Meetings”. For registration and application procedures, see “Come partecipare” (in Italian) or “How to Parti…
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If anyone needs a short, accessible “why the Jesus movement is apocalyptic” piece for an undergrad class, look no further (I mean, it’s focused on Q, but you can bracket that part if you’re not into it 😆):
CenSAMM@censamm.bsky.social · last yr."Many elements of this prophetic discourse are couched in an apocalyptic framework...." @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social on Sayings Source Q in our Critical Dictionary: www.cdamm.org/articles/say...
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
Behold, the most collaborative writing of all time! We literally sat around my coffee table and went sentence-by-sentence to write this 🥳
Eric Vanden Eykel@evandeneykel.bsky.social · last yr.Here’s a short post on the Eerdmans blog about @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social, @drmjcwarren.bsky.social, and my forthcoming book on Judeophobia and the New Testament. Available for preorder and shipping soon!
Just got my copy of Judeophobia and the New Testament w @evandeneykel.bsky.social & @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social. I am so proud & grateful to our contributors. I continue to be in awe at the careful, critical, & important work that went into each chapter. Thank you, & to Eerdmans for supporting us.
I’m traveling so haven’t seen my author copy yet, but it looks beautiful from afar! 😍 So happy to see this project come to fruition!
Eric Vanden Eykel@evandeneykel.bsky.social · last yr.Four years after initial inception, and we have a hard copy! I cannot express just how grateful I am for the work that our contributors put into this volume. Cheers, @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social and @drmjcwarren.bsky.social!
Four years after initial inception, and we have a hard copy! I cannot express just how grateful I am for the work that our contributors put into this volume. Cheers, @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social and @drmjcwarren.bsky.social!
Latest issue of the _JSHJ_ is out. My brief editorial is open access for anyone who is interested. Thanks to all contributors! brill.com/view/journal...
New issue of Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus Vol. 23, No. 1 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
Check out the CFP for this year's CISSR conference in Italy. Please do observe how incredibly broad the unit run by myself and James is--anything that thinks about biblical texts as conflicted/conflicting resources is appropriate! 😍 [Repost to earn my unending respect 😁!] cissr.net/call-for-pap...
Programme Units
For general information about the CISSR Annual Meeting on Christian Origins, see “Annual Meetings”. For registration and application procedures, see “Come partecipare” (in Italian) or “How to Parti…
cissr.net
If you want to send a message to Pres Zelenskyy that we are embarrassed at the clown in the Oval, here’s a way you can do that meaningfully. This is his fundraising site. What I saved by not shopping today is going to Ukraine. Share and piss off the 🤡 administration as a bonus. u24.gov.ua
UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine
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When JD Vance can go to Dachau and immediately follow it by all but endorsing the far-right, Holocaust revisionist AfD, and Marco Rubio can go to Yad Vashem and immediately follow it by defending Vance's support for the AfD, we need to ask big questions about what Holocaust remembrance is even for.
@taylorweaver.bsky.social will have a review of Alan Kirk's latest book in the next issue of JSHJ (teaser below). Kirk, one of my doctoral siblings, offers a rigorous, careful study of the role of memory in gospel composition, this time geared toward the field's fixation on sources:
Doing my research on antiquity seems like the least important thing right now.
![NT/EC scholars who identify as women [at any career stage], please consider adding yourself to the Google Sheet I have created below (I’ve put myself first as an example). I’ve been part of several projects in the last few years where I and/or my fellow editors have struggled to achieve gender diversity in our project (which is, admittedly, only one dimension of diversity). How much easier it would be if we had a list to consult, especially if it connects us to people who are not in our typical networks. Feel free to share this post!
Don’t worry, you’re not committing yourself to anything by putting your name on the list! You can always say no if you get invited to something thar you aren’t able to commit to.
[It’s just that I just thrive on lists 😁]
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