Jeremiah Coogan
@jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social
Historian of religion, textuality, and enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean | Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Like Loebs? Every fall semester, I like to remind people that while Perseus has many free Loebs sectioned up into book and chapter, if you want to download and read the public domain Loebs (277 of them) as PDFs or txt files, Duke U's very own Ryan Baumann created _Loebolus 📗📕_. ryanfb.xyz/loebolus/
Loebolus
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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.
This is a friendly reminder that submissions for the John William Wevers prize are due September 1, 2026.
After my talk at #SBL #ISBL on "books" and spacing in the medieval psalms manuscripts at Sydney University Library, here are some puzzles I'm still trying to solve around Radak's commentary. If you know anything about medieval Hebrew I'd love your thoughts on this: duck5.blogspot.com/2026/07/rada...
Radak at the seams
I've spent a lot of time looking at a 1491 Incunable (87.2) at the University of Sydney rare books collection, which contains, among the wri...
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Hello, dear βιβλιόφιλος ("booklover") 📚 The JMA has a open access article on "New Approaches to Identifying Roman Libraries," on two Late Antique Examples from Stobi (North Macedonia) & Fuente Álamo (Spain). Can we develop computational techniques to help us identify the grammar of libraries? Yes!
Investigadores de la UGR identifican en una villa romana de Córdoba la biblioteca más antigua de la Península Ibérica - Canal UGR
Investigadores de la Universidad de Granada descubren en la villa romana de Fuente Álamo (Córdoba) la biblioteca más antigua documentada de la Península Ibérica.
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The splendid Caitlin C Gillespie has a new book out on Livia with @yalepress.bsky.social: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... She was the wife of Augustus, but she also loved experimenting with figs, herbs, 🌿 gardens, and murder (okay, I admit that last one I added as an example of literary misogyny)
Livia’s Famous Figs: An Ancient Roman Guide to Good Eating - Yale University Press
Empress Livia was known for her longevity and health, gifted by her own vibrant garden. However, her wisdom left her open to bad accusations.
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friends and neighbors, the newest Element in Religion in Late Antiquity is now *live* and *free to download* through August 4! The inimitable Virginia Burrus on "Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature"! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature
Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature
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"KI-Firmen kaufen Antiquariate leer – und vernichten die Bücher Werden vergriffene Bücher im grossen Stil zu Altpapier vernichtet, konzentriert sich das analoge Erbe unwiederbringlich als exklusive Datenmasse in den Händen weniger Unternehmen –still,systematisch und bisher ohne öffentliche Debatte"
Jagd auf alte Bücher - KI-Firmen kaufen Antiquariate leer – und vernichten die Bücher
Palettenweise wandern alte Bücher aus Europa in die USA. Dahinter stecken mutmasslich KI-Unternehmen – mit System.
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Wow, just noticed the latest American Historical Review, "Revolutionary Objects" - 76 object biographies The first I read: Ved Baruah and Yong-an Zhang on Hyder Ali’s Sword (in which they cite @bencarp.bsky.social) Looks like a rich collection, great contributors, excellent for teaching!
OSU Religion’s short-term visiting scholar program for contingent and independent scholars (deadline Friday August 14, 2026) = religion.osu.edu/news/csr-vis...
CSR Visiting Scholar Program – Call for Applications
Visiting Scholar – Call for Applications The Center for the Study of Religion at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce the continuation of our short-term visiting scholar program. Applicati...
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Roman law question: What's the current thinking about whether freed persons with the status of dediticii gain citizenship through the Constitutio Antoniniana of 212 CE?
As today's email from the @scsclassics.bsky.social notes, "Although the ACLS and partner organizations won their legal case for the restoration of all NEH grants in May 2026, at the eleventh hour the government filed an appeal on July 6th, one day before the 60-day window for appeals closed."
Is it possible to tell if artefacts from Roman antiquity *were not* made by enslaved hands? In the Oxford Handbook of the Comparative Archaeology of Slavery, my co-authors and I think comparatively about objects made by the enslaved.
The entire fourth book of the Refutation of All Heresies is a magnificent (and wittily mean-spirited) miscellany of mathematics, astrology, physiognomy, and ritual.
Jeremiah Coogan@jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social · 4w agoInstructions on writing with invisible ink, from the third-century "Refutation of All Heresies":
Instructions on writing with invisible ink, from the third-century "Refutation of All Heresies":
so happy to engage with @vox-magica.bsky.social 's TWO new books on #ancientchristianity #newtestament #magic #religion and more! Congrats, Shaily!
Shaily Patel@vox-magica.bsky.social · last mo.this is a very generous and generative review. so much gratitude to @lsnasrallah.bsky.social for engaging so thoughtfully with my work!
Call for papers: On the Fringes of the Catena Format: Catena-Commentaries, Composite Exegesis, and the Posterity of Catenae, International workshop at KU Leuven, March 9-10, 2027. Abstracts due October 15, 2026.
🚨Job! 🚨 Open-rank, tenure-track position in pre-1800 history of medicine at Johns Hopkins #histmed #histstm apply.interfolio.com/182469?fbcli...
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In related news, the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus project in Munich has just released its latest call for visiting fellowships: ptolemaeus.badw.de/jobs Applications due by September 4th, for 1-3 month projects to be undertaken between January and November 2027. #HistSTM #HistAstro #MedievalSky
My latest for @hyperallergic.com is a new study which found DNA preserved in Paleolithic wall pigments in caves in Spain & Portugal 🎨 Art is an archive! Thanks so much to Dr. @monicamedhist.bsky.social for speaking to me about the present and future of paleogenetics. Thanks for reading!
Human DNA in Cave Paintings Can Survive For Millennia, Study Finds
The discovery points to the future potential of archaeogenetics in recovering the identities of ancient artists from thousands of years ago.
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I am excited to share a call for papers for the conference, "Jesus and Slavery: New Quests, Methods, and Perspectives," organized by myself, Annette Merz, and @norbertnagy.bsky.social to be held in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) in August 2027.
My review essay on recent books by Georgia Frank, Blake Leyerle, and Joseph E. Sanzo Experiencing the Past | Essays in Long Late Antiquity liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Experiencing the Past | Essays in Long Late Antiquity
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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It’s easier to imagine that an LLM can replace all other libraries and all other forms of knowledge if your corpus has been painstakingly transcribed, edited, tagged, and digitized by generations of scholars.
Workshop: Cairo Genizah, September 2–3, 2026, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
Rare Book School invites the public to the 2026 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trades, “𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀, 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀” with 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗺 at 5:30 p.m. ET on 8 July. This event is hybrid. Details at rarebookschool.org/events/2026/...
