Candida Moss
@candidamoss.bsky.social
Professor. Writer. Columnist. Erratic historian. Typo Queen.
There's a whole ecosystem of people who reach out to authors offering to make things like "book trailers". I told my son (14) about it, and he said 'I can do that" so he did. Book trailer for Why Odysseus: Survivor, Scoundrel (Anti)hero youtu.be/UEeSR_9QSYU?... via @YouTube
Book trailer for Why Odysseus: Survivor, Scoundrel (Anti)hero
YouTube video by Joel Christensen
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Read the Odyssey in Greek, with Tim Whitmarsh www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNg-...
Read the Odyssey Ancient Greek
YouTube video by Classics at Cambridge
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The word "Satan" (الشيطان) written with an inverted letter nūn (ن) in the Arabic version of the Book of Job in MS Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. ar. 468.
A toy ball from #Roman Egypt, made from linen with strips of reed (painted red & green), & with stone chips inside so it would rattle when used. First played with some 1600+ years ago... (📷 British Museum) #AncientBlueSky
I don't mean to brag but my kid called me and said "I don't have a lot of time to talk but I have to share my feelings about the Odyssey." He then went into a ten minute rant about things that are different from the poem.
That time I got to interview Tom Hiddleston about Pompeii and he gave an incredible defense of classics and the use of imagination in history www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
Why Tom Hiddleston can’t stop thinking about Pompeii
In a new National Geographic docudrama series, the award-winning actor unveils the latest insights into the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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There is a new Cambridge elements out today, _ Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible_ by Ilan Peled. It is free to read for the next two weeks, so get reading. 🪄 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible
Cambridge Core - Biblical Studies - Old Testament, Hebrew Bible - Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible
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Michael Blanding's The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby brentnongbri.com/2026/07/19/m...
Michael Blanding’s The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby
When I began this blog back in 2017, the mysteries surrounding Hobby Lobby and its biblical manuscripts were really driving some aspects of my research. Over the last decade, there has been thoroug…
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Congratulations Sabrina, this looks great! @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social you know you have really made it when scholars put your concepts in the titles of their books!
Sabrina Inowlocki@sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · 3w agoand it's out! OA thanks to @romanaerc.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Classics programs being closed across the globe. Meanwhile poised to be the year's biggest blockbuster:
Walking Odysseus
Alt: Walking Odysseus through a forest followed by his men. From the Christopher Nolan movie
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Reading: Tamara Lewit, "“Not Just a Housekeeper: A New Look at the Work of the Roman Vilica.” Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2026, 1–37 (open access) doi.org/10.1017/S104... Adding this to my ancient slavery reading list.
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People seem to think Odysseus was a tortured hero. The truth is quite different. Check out my latest on Joel Christensen @sentantiq.bsky.social 's new book. Comments from @profarumpark.bsky.social, @sarahebond.bsky.social, @eleanormartin.bsky.social www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
Was Odysseus actually a hero?
For centuries, Homer's epic poem and central character Odysseus have been misunderstood, but these are the main ways people get it wrong.
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Now that he has seen the Odyssey movie can someone do a wellness check on @sentantiq.bsky.social ?
Me, suddenly supportive of my husband's comic book collection...
Catherine Clarke@cathamclarke.bsky.social · 3w agoDemon balls! I'm so excited to be involved in a project organised by @hellomizk.bsky.social, pairing medievalists with artists to produce brand new #comics. I'm working with the amazing Dan Berry, on the story of #Guthlac. Dan just sent me this - inspired by a demon in the #medieval Guthlac Roll 1/2
An important paper about protecting science from political interference. Europe needs to defend its science against the kind of attacks unfurling in the US. By Martin McKee, Christina Pagel & Tiago Correia in the European Journal of Public Health: academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...
Europe must learn from America’s assault on science
In June 2026, several prominent diabetes researchers, including Steven Kahn, editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, were removed by police from the annual meeti
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A game board from the forum of Timgad (Algeria) is a more Roman spin on the trite ‘Live, Laugh, Love’ sign. Replacing hunting w/cheese & and I am in, y’all. ‘venari lavari / ludere ridere / (h)oc{c} est / vivere’: ‘to hunt, to bath, to play, to laugh — This is to live!’ (CIL VIII, 17938). 🛁
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Barbie and the Bible
This edited collection invites fresh readings of play and storytelling in the Barbie movie (2023) through the lens of the Bible and theology. For Christopher B.…
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Candida Moss@candidamoss.bsky.social · 4w agoThe Barbie and the Bible volume by Christopher B Hays and Meghan Henning is here! I got to write the foreword which is a rare excuse to write about Perpetual again!
The Barbie and the Bible volume by Christopher B Hays and Meghan Henning is here! I got to write the foreword which is a rare excuse to write about Perpetual again!
My latest for National Geographic's Stones and Bones is on new research the Amarna letters www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
The eccentric pharaoh and the ‘Wikileaks of the Bronze Age’
Intrigue, whining, and negotiations—all these and more can be found in one of the greatest troves of ancient diplomatic communications.
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You guys an Augustinian Pope is facing off against rigorists ordaining their own bishops. It's the Donatist Schism all over again. apnews.com/article/vati...
Defying Pope Leo XIV and risking schism, traditionalists go ahead with Latin Mass consecrations
A breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics has directly defied Pope Leo XIV by consecrating four bishops without his consent. The Society of St.
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June 29 is the feast of Saints Peter & Paul—patron saints of Rome. It’s an amazing day in Roma (fireworks), but it’s also a good day to read about the construction of martyrdom (esp. whether the Neronian persecution happened) by Dr. @candidamoss.bsky.social: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... 📕
Apparently today's the day all my reviews drop, ha Fantastic forum on a fantastic book!
Ancient Jew Review@ancientjewreview.bsky.social · last mo.The AJR Review forum of Christine Luckritz Marquis’s Death of the Desert: Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt’s Golden Age (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022) continues with a response from Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social
LIVESTREAM later today at 5pm UK/noon EDT "Everything you know about Odysseus is WRONG" with Dr Joel Christensen @sentantiq.bsky.social Link: www.youtube.com/live/5MSY1FS...
Everything you know about Odysseus is wrong (with Dr Joel Christensen)
Odysseus is one of the most famous hero's from ancient myth, yet he...
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I wouldn't even have a PhD much less an academic career if it were not for the public scholarship, the guidance & the friendship of Prof. Francesca Stavrakopoulou, but she's bafflingly at risk of redundancy because of cuts at @exeter.ac.uk. The world needs her work now more than ever.
How did cats take over the world? #CatWorldDominationDay 😼 Domestic cats' common ancestor is the Near Eastern wildcat. Tamed around 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, they spread west with the help of the Greeks, Romans, Vikings & more! 🔗 from 2022 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
If you asked me, off the top of my head, to name a non-Oxbridge university in England synonymous with excellence in the Humanities - I would probably think of Exeter first. This feels like a very deliberate, targeted and ideological Bonfire of the Humanities
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3
The University of Exeter houses one of the best Theology/Religion departments in the UK. It will be a huge loss for the field if the department is decimated. It is one of many humanities departments under threat and like similar moves at US institutions should be a concern to everyone in academia.
Ben Phillips@benphillips1989.bsky.social · last mo.A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
