This week (Sat) marks my 10 year anniversary working as a #DigitalHumanities Librarian here. I was hired to create/lead our DH Center, which turns 10 next year. What started as an idea among a few people has blossomed into a thriving space of curiosity, experimentation, play, and dance parties! 🪩🕺🥳

Colleagues at the Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toruń, PL) have an exciting opening for a 36-month long postdoc in Greek literature within a new project on book circulation in late antiquity. See www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... for details. Note the deadline: 02 Oct 26.

Journal for the Study of the New Testament Vol. 49, No. 1 (2026) journals.sagepub.com/toc/jnta/49/1 @agnieszkaz.bsky.social @mateuszkusio.bsky.social @michaelpbarber.bsky.social

The #DH2026 Book of Abstracts is out — final version, now on Zenodo. PDF + machine-readable XML, CC BY 4.0. This is the version of record; no further revisions will be issued. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Digital Humanities 2026: Book of Abstracts

This volume collects the abstracts of the contributions presented at DH2026: Engagement, the 36th annual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), held on…

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As every year, we are organizing Winter School: HTR of Historical Sources! This time it is virtual (5 afternoons in November/October), with 7 language/script groups (2x Latin, Greek, Syriac, Church Slavonic, Icelandic, German). Call for applications: indico.global/e/htr-2026 . #htr #atr

Delighted to share that my project Neural Scribe has received funding from the Polish NCN. I will be investigating the Pauline authorship debate using Transformer embeddings and XAI at IBL PAN, with a research placement at the Huygens Institute (KNAW). #NCN #IBLPAN #KNAW #DigitalHumanities #NLP

@eadh2026krakow.bsky.social After DH2026's talk on Atwood & Alderman's uncanny stylistic convergence, Karina van Dalen-Oskam and I are headed to EADH in Kraków. New target: Cristina Dalcher, whose novel echoes The Handmaid's Tale. Computational methods reveal intriguing—but not simple—evidence.

🎉Granty dla młodych przyznane! Gratulujemy laureatkom i laureatom. Współczynnik sukcesu wyniósł blisko 23%. #SONATINA 10 www.ncn.gov.pl/aktualnosci/...

I needed a dedicated Koine Greek AI model for my NT research. It didn't exist, so I built it. Here you go: Koine-BERT v0.1. 📜 Domain-adapted on 2.85M tokens of the NT, Septuagint & Apostolic Fathers. Available on HuggingFace: doi.org/10.57967/hf/... #DigitalHumanities #BiblicalStudies

ABeZet/Koine-Greek-BERT · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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📢 CfP for #CHR2027 is out! Submissions on all aspects of computational humanities research welcome; all details available here: 2027.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/ And yes, CHR2027 will take place a little later than usual. So you *could* start later… but we suggest starting now!

My article is finally published! I use Disability Studies to argue that Bartimaeus in Mark 10 is not a mere spiritual metaphor, but a model of disabled narrative agency and public resistance. I welcome your thoughts and comments. doi.org/10.1163/15685152-bja10076 👍

It's great to see this Syndicate symposium released, which I convened for Garrick Allen's recent book. Currently, you can see pieces by me & @sccarlson.bsky.social, but others by Saskia Dirkse, Jennifer Knust, & Juan Hernández will appear over the next few days. syndicate.network/symposia/bib...

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

The english edition of our Compendium Computational Theology, Vol. 2, which I edited with my marvellous colleague @fredvanoorschot.bsky.social , was published today. This brings a massive project totalling well over 1,000 pages to a finish (for now) 🥳 🥳 🥳 #DH #Theology doi.org/10.11588/hei...

🎉 Very excited that my article, "»News from the East and the North« in Daniel 11:44: The Motif of the Fall of Babylon," has been published in the "Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft" by De Gruyter Brill. PDF (Open Access): doi.org/10.1515/zaw-... #BiblicalStudies #BookOfDaniel

Can an LLM act as a biblical scholar and rhetorically map the Book of Revelation? You can check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/llc/... or on ResearchGate for the preprint if you can’t access full OUP articles (www.researchgate.net/profile/Agni...). Awaiting discussion!

AI-assisted hermeneutics: validating a large language model for the rhetorical analysis of the book of revelation

Abstract. This article introduces and validates a framework for the computational analysis of rhetorically complex texts, moving beyond generic sentiment a

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Available now in Open Access — free to browse and download. I’m thrilled that this book is finally seeing the light of day. It’s been quite the journey. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped me along the way!

Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul

Cambridge Core - Biblical Studies - New Testament - Ethnic Stereotypes and the Letters of Paul

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A couple of the articles are open access in the current issue of Biblical Interpretation, Special Issue: Twenty More Years of Bible and Film biblicalstudiesblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/to-b...

Managed to wrangle this text into publication. Read it if you have the time, comment if you have the energy. "The Gerasene Pericope and Disability Studies: Irony, Empire, and (In)complete Reintegration in Mk 5.1–20" doi.org/10.1177/0142... #BiblicalStudies #AcademicSky #Theology #Bible #Research

Publication day! 🎉 Very excited that my article, "The Meaning of Jesus’ Words “τοῦ θεοῦ μου” in Revelation 3:2, 12," has been published in the top-tier, peer-reviewed journal "Biblische Zeitschrift" by Brill. Download PDF (Open Access): doi.org/10.30965/258...

So way back at the Female Corporeality and Religion Conference, I said I was going to turn this into an article. Just to prove I actually did...

A New Year’s surprise! I didn’t expect this to be online yet. My article "The New Testament and integral ecology: Charting a path for interpretation," is available. Please don’t be misled by the Polish abstract - the full text is in English. I’d really value your thoughts! doi.org/10.15633/ps....