McMaster University invites applications for a one-year, full-time Contractually Limited Appointment (CLA) position at the rank of Lecturer or Assistant Professor in the Department Religious Studies. For more information, see here: www.academicwork.ca/jobs/jo-7642...

Congratulations to W. Derek Suderman (Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo) on the publication of his new book, _The Social Audience of Prayer: A Rhetorical and Canonical Study of Individual Lament Psalms_ (Eisenbrauns, 2026)! Open access: www.eisenbrauns.org/books/titles...

The Social Audience of Prayer: A Rhetorical and Canonical Study of Individual Lament Psalms By W. Derek Suderman

Lament psalms are often imagined as private cries to God. Yet most laments are also directed outward—toward friends, foes, and entire communities. The Social Audience of Prayer reveals how the psalmis...

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Rhiannon Graybill gives the 2026 Craigie Lecture, “This Is Not My Beautiful Body: Weird Female Bodies in the Hebrew Bible and Contemporary Fiction.”

The CSBS President, Alicia Batten (Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo) presents her presidential address, "Textile Topography: Dress, Bodies, and Ancient Christ Followers."

Three awards were announced at the CSBS general meeting, including the Norman E. Wagner Award and two book awards: the R.B.Y. Scott Award (Hebrew Bible and/or Ancient Near East) and the Frank W. Beare Award (Christian Origins, Post-Biblical Judaism, and/or Graeco-Roman Religions). Recipients below.

Two student essay prizes were given at the annual meeting for essays related to the field of biblical studies. Please join the CSBS in congratulating Isaiah C. Padgett and Kathrine Breimayer! Further information below.

We're excited to welcome conference attendees as they arrive for the CSBS annual meeting, hosted at Mount Allison University (Sackville, NB)! Please make sure to check in and receive your name tag and tote bag on the ground floor at Windsor Hall. See you soon!

Congratulations to Shannon Parrott, who was recently appointed to the position of Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Trinity Western University!

Congratulations to Rebecca G.S. Idestrom (Tyndale University) on winning the 2025 Book of Excellence award from The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship for her book, Show Me Your Glory: The Glory of God in the Old Testament (Pickwick, 2023)!

Congratulations to Courtney Friesen (University of Arizona) on winning the 2025 Beare Award for his book, Acting Gods, Playing Heroes, and the Interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek Drama in the Early Common Era (Routledge, 2024)!

Congratulations to Sébastien Doane (Université Laval) on winning the 2025 Scott Award for his book, Reading the Bible amid the Environmental Crisis: Interdisciplinary Insights to Ecological Hermeneutics (Lexington, 2024)!

Congratulations to Kevin Wing-Chiu Wong (Regis-St. Michael’s College) on winning the 2025 Jeremias Prize for the best student paper related to the New Testament! His paper was entitled “Hope in Circulation: The Affective Process and Socio-Cultural Signs in Romans 8:18–25.”

Congratulations to Jasmine Wiens (Knox College, Toronto School of Theology) on winning the 2025 Founders Prize for the best student paper related to the Hebrew Bible! Her paper was entitled “Learning from the Land: The Violence against Mountains and People in Ezekiel 6.”

CSBS President, Professor Erin Runions (Pomona College), delivers the 2025 Presidential Address entitled "The Carceral Afterlives of Isaiah 66:24 and the Question of the Human."

The Canadian Society of Patristic Studies presents *Pedagogy and Patristics in Canada and Beyond* Time: June 2, 2025, 1-4.30pm Location: Emmanuel College of Victoria University, at the University of Toronto and online via Zoom. For more information see attached files!

Saint Paul University in Ottawa invites applications for a full-time tenure-track teaching position in Biblical Theology. For more information and to apply, click the following link: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

It is with great sadness that we share that Albert Pietersma, Professor Emeritus of LXX and Hellenistic Greek in Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto, passed away on March 25. Click here for his full obituary: septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/ioscs/news/84/

Congratulations to Gregory Fewster on the publication of *The Authentic Paul: Critical Scholarship and the Making of a Christian Book*! @gpfewster.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social www.mqup.ca/authentic-pa...

Register for the CSBS annual meeting before March 20th to get the early-bird registration discount!

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Registration is open for Congress 2025 @ George Brown College in Toronto! Les inscriptions sont ouvertes pour le Congrès 2025 au Collège George Brown à Toronto! Register for the annual meeting of the CSBS today. fhss.swoogo.com/registration...

Congratulations to fellow Canadian Tyler Horton on the successful defense of his dissertation, "Pneuma in the Septuagint"! @cambridgeuni.bsky.social

Registration is open for Congress 2025 @ George Brown College in Toronto! Les inscriptions sont ouvertes pour le Congrès 2025 au Collège George Brown à Toronto! Register for the annual meeting of the CSBS today. fhss.swoogo.com/registration...

It is with great sadness that we share that G. Peter Richardson passed away on January 6, 2025. He was an active member in the CSBS and served on the executive and as President (1984-85). He was renowned scholar and an important influence on our society. www.religion.utoronto.ca/news/in-memo...

The CfP deadline for the CSBS annual meeting (June 3–5, 2025) in Toronto is quickly approaching: January 15, 2025! Be sure to get your abstracts in, to nominate worthy books for the Beare and Scott Awards, and to submit papers for the student awards! Details here: csbs-sceb.ca/annual-meeti...

Horizon College & Seminary invites applications for a full-time faculty member who will serve as the Master of Arts in Biblical and Theological Studies Coordinator and as professor of biblical studies (open rank). For more information, see the following: www.horizon.edu/were-hiring-...

Hiring: MABT Coordinator & Professor of Biblical Studies (Open Rank)

Horizon College & Seminary invites applications for a full-time faculty member who will serve as the Master of Arts in Biblical and Theological Studies (MABT) Coordinator and as a professor of biblica...

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The Religious Studies Graduate Society of McGill University’s School of Religious Studies invites you to submit your paper proposal to our 2025 bilingual conference: (Disputed) Origins in the Study of Religions. @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social For more details: relcfp.com/2025/01/06/d...