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Dr. Chance Bonar

@chancebonar.bsky.social

Advisor @ UVA Working on early Christianity, slavery, & Roman Palestine Cat dad | Minnesotan | 🏳️‍🌈 | http://chancebonar.com Books: bit.ly/3R8LXbo + bit.ly/4iMBSwy + bit.ly/4dBmCSk

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Bristol IGRCT@igrct.bsky.social · yesterday

We are excited to share that the new edition of Anne Carson’s translation of Sophokles’ Antigone features a critical introduction by Laura Jansen, Director of the IGRCT. Offering fresh perspectives on this enduring classic, the volume is available in Bloomsbury’s Modern Classics series #classicssky

Book cover for Sophokles' Antigone, translated by Anne Carson
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2d ago

As a Religious Studies professor, this directly targets my livelihood in a way that makes a mockery of any supposed profession of concern the administration has ever expressed for me as a Jewish person on campus.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Brandon Massey@mbrandonmassey.bsky.social · 2d ago

We especially seek proposals from early career scholars and scholars from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Limited travel funds are available, as well as the option to present in an online seminar. Please share this call for papers with anyone who may be interested in contributing.

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Brandon Massey@mbrandonmassey.bsky.social · 2d ago

How can slavery studies reshape the ongoing quests for the historical Jesus? We invite paper proposals to the conference "Jesus and Slavery: New Quests, Methods, and Perspectives" to be held in 27–20 August 2027 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Proposals are due 31 August.

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Seth L. Sanders@nabalkattu.bsky.social · last wk.

To be clear, these groups were not 'nations' but the kind of thing our history has the most trouble with when it is, in James Scott's words, "Seeing Like a State": non-bounded, collaborative, polyglot populations. Riding the tides of environmental and social change, they changed history in turn.

Seth L. Sanders@nabalkattu.bsky.social · last wk.

Film criticism aside, Emily Wilson's review of the Odyssey concerned me because it misrepresents Late Bronze Age history and reinforces an old Eurocentric pattern of dismissing the experiences--and reality--of ancient peoples other than the Greeks.

Nolan’s other major addition to Homer’s narrative is the repeated reference to threats to ‘our civilisation’ from ‘the sea peoples’ – a now debunked 19th-century theory about maritime tribes who were thought to have attacked Egypt around 1200 BCE and to have also been responsible for the roughly coeval collapse of Mycenaean Greek culture. ‘Our civilisation is under attack,’ Penelope wails. Odysseus comforts her by saying that ‘Bronze Age civilisation’, including literacy, will rise again from the ashes. The current consensus, as Nolan clearly knows, is that there was no such thing as ‘the sea peoples’, and that the Greek-speaking world’s shift away from the more centralised, literate palace culture of the Mycenaeans in the 11th century BCE towards the fragmented social formations of the early Greek Iron Age was caused by a range of factors, including climate change, earthquakes and internal unrest. Nolan uses these competing historical theories to create a characteristic narrative twist about the identity of ‘the sea peoples’, which I will not spoil, though you can probably guess it.
Carlos Noreña@carlosfnorena.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ancient history has gone global. This is surely the most exciting development in the field in the last 30 years! But what "global antiquity" is and how we should study it—and why anyone should care—are all open (and challenging) questions. Some thoughts on all of this for @aeon.co.

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