Fantastic detective work from @michaeldpress.bsky.social - tracking down the forged letter used to fake an old provenance for recently looted cuneiform tablets! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Årstein Justnes
@arsteinjustnes.bsky.social
Professor, University of Agder
I'm delighted to announce “Susanna and the Elders,” a special issue of the Journal of Ancient Judaism 17.2. Grateful to co-editor Noam Mizrahi, the journal’s editors, and our authors for bringing this collection to life. brill.com/view/journal...
I am deeply honoured to have received this prize. I’ll write up some posts specifically about the book later today and the contribution I hope to make to understanding ancient Judaism through its arguments. Thank you @biajs.bsky.social
British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies@biajs.bsky.social · 3w agoThis year's book prize invited submissions focussed on topics relating to ancient and medieval periods. Our winner is @josephscales.bsky.social for 'Galilean Spaces of Identity: Judaism and Spatiality in Hasmonean and Herodian Galilee' @degruyterbrill.bsky.social brill.com/display/titl...
My book The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby releases today and I woke up to a glowing review in The New York Times! A dream come true and such validation after four years of blood, sweat, and tears! I’m stunned. #nonfiction #booksky #newrelease #ChristianNationalism www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/b...
Book Review: ‘The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby,’ by Michael Blanding (Gift Article)
A new book by Michael Blanding chronicles the history of Hobby Lobby and its billionaire founder’s campaign to promote conservative Christian values.
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#Coptic #DigitalHumanities folks: I'm finalizing my bibliography for my state of the field plenary at the upcoming Congress. PLEASE check out my Zotero library and let me know what I'm missing. Thanks!!! www.zotero.org/groups/66174...
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
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Are we entering a post-literate age? A long but very important read. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
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Melissa Sayyad Bach reviews Charlotte Hempel's *The Community Rules from Qumran: A Commentary* for RBL. Definitely one of the best commentaries on the Community Rules available. @fortresspress.bsky.social www.sblcentral.org/home/bookDet...
Please take a moment to read and sign this petition on behalf of the Theology and Religion Department at @exeter.ac.uk. Their outstanding scholarship needs our support.
Francesca Stavrakopoulou@proffrancesca.bsky.social · last mo.I’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition below! c.org/NpvY4sR9gH
Remarkable and detailed description of a chat between a junior lawyer and a chatbot where the bot generated letters to the court with fake quotes of laws, told the lawyer to verify, lawyer still didn’t. There are so many stories like this now… caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2026...
*The Bible and Violence* is live on @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social Theology & Religion Online (TARO) platform. Several chapters are open access. Sadly, my chapters are not. Be sure to check out this amazing project. Volumes due out in this November. www.theologyandreligiononline.com/the-bible-an...
PhD with skills in medieval MSS & Latin needed! Post-doctoral Research Fellow for 30 months (with the possibility of extension) to support the AHRC-Funded project 'Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain, c.1200-1500’ jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow: AHRC Project ‘Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain’
The University of Southampton is seeking to appoint a post-doctoral Research Fellow for 30 months (with the possibility of extension). The Fellow will support the AHRC-Funded project 'Strange Geograph...
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We're hiring 2 postdocs at @uio.no on my ERC-Cog project on how authoritarian regimes shape scientific knowledge. 3–4 years, U. of Oslo. Deadline: 10 Sept 2026. Great dept., terms, well funded, bustling & green Scandi capital. Apply! 👉 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303060/postdoctoral-fello
Postdoctoral Fellow (303060) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (303060), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, September 10, 2026
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Working on revisions of my dissertation for publication and pulled my copy of John Trever’s *The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Personal Account* (a 1977 revised edition of his 1965 *The Untold Story of Qumran*) and forgot that it was signed!
📢 Online Talk | Agder Forum for Translation Studies @ UiA We’re pleased to invite you to an online talk by @ecoarts.bsky.social on Comparison & Computation: Rethinking Digital Humanities through Translation. 🔗 The Zoom link will be provided upon registration (QR-code). #dh #digitalhumanities
A Medieval Coptic translator was confronted with a dilemma: the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is not attested in his exemplar. He visited archives in Cairo & Damascus to collect its versions in Coptic, Syriac, Greek, &Arabic. what did he find? Join his facinating journey in this new article
A Quest for the Pericope Adulterae: A Historical Assessment of ibn Kabar and ibn al-ʿAssāl’s Notes | Harvard Theological Review | Cambridge Core
A Quest for the Pericope Adulterae: A Historical Assessment of ibn Kabar and ibn al-ʿAssāl’s Notes - Volume 119 Issue 1
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