Three dope @uaw.org logos on the cover for a pamphlet for the union’s education conference. Circa late 1940s. From the UAW archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social .
Greg Given
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"A happy, footnote-drugged maniac who disturbs the book mites in a dull volume, a foot thick, to find in it a reference to an even duller one."
new @xroadproj.bsky.social call for proposals, y'all! grants up to $15k for "diverse knowledge makers" with "innovative projects exploring African American religious history" deadline is 1 Sept come get this money crossroads.princeton.edu/grant-progra...
Request for Proposals
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Today I begin my tenure as Chair and Associate Professor of Denison University's Religion Department. I made a little promo to help advertise the department. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4M1...
Why Study Religion at Denison University?
YouTube video by Denison Religion
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For those of y'all who didn't have a child in 2025, a taste of what it looks like to attempt to access the new child tax benefit. This SUCKS.
Giving Bsky one more chance to show me the path here before I start bushwhacking my own way through the literature
Greg Given@greggiven.bsky.social · 2mo agoI have an academic curiosity that I could research myself but it’s way too perfect of a Bluesky query to go casting about in databases on my own. Who do I read on the use of bibliographic taxonomy in the cetology chapter of Moby-Dick? On the appeals to philology and compendium of testimonia?
Every academic who writes in short snatches of time, in cafes, on trains, and at the breakfast table, imagines that every other academic retreats every evening to an elegant desk in a book-lined study and spends hours deep in concentration filling page after page with original scholarly reflection.
🥁 @kmkentel.bsky.social and I have a new book coming out very soon! “Istanbul Unbound” will be the inaugural volume in the new series Transregional Middle Easts from @uofupress.bsky.social 🥂 Thanks to support from @fwf-at.bsky.social it will be fully Open Access 🎊 uofupress.com/books/istanb...
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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Friends, Romans, fellow late antiquity fans! The first issue of Essays in Long Late Antiquity, a new journal published fully in open access by Liverpool University Press is out! We have a stunning volume for you to read with amazing contributions. 1/ liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/cur...
Contents | Essays in Long Late Antiquity 1, 1
This editorial introduction explains the rationale for this journal and its place in the current research landscape of late antique studies. While this field has “exploded”, different specialisms and disciplines continue to approach the period through ...
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GenAut talk | Dan Batovici "Outside Looking In, Inside Looking Out: The Literary Dossier of Clement of Rome" [hybrid] Thursday, 27 June, 8.30pm CET at the AELAC Conference 2026. From the organisers, the Zoom link for this talk is: zoom.us/j/9814841977...
You can almost always find unexpected things in manuscripts. Today: an Ethiopian scribe trying his hand on a Greek note in an Arabic manuscript (Sin. ar. 506). It's not only the shape of some letters, or the use of textual dividers, but esp. the sneakily inserted word ቀሌምኮስ that gives him away.
the whole thing is here and it looks spectacular! www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/3/...
Death of the Desert Review Forum — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
This AJR Forum, organized and guest edited by Candace Buckner, features responses from Ellen Muehlberger, Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos, and Ciara Mulcahy to Christine Luckritz Marquis’s book, Death ...
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Ancient Jew Review@ancientjewreview.bsky.social · 2mo agoAJR is honored to host a review panel of Christine Luckritz Marquis’s book, Death of the Desert: Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt's Golden Age (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). We begin with an essay from Ciara Mulcahy
You can now preorder the paperback of Make Your Own Job, with this gorgeous new cover!! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
If you're an anthropologist of science/tech in the Boston area and want to teach an intro-level class at Tufts on the same this fall, well you're in luck: apply.interfolio.com/188534
I have an academic curiosity that I could research myself but it’s way too perfect of a Bluesky query to go casting about in databases on my own. Who do I read on the use of bibliographic taxonomy in the cetology chapter of Moby-Dick? On the appeals to philology and compendium of testimonia?
I have an academic curiosity that I could research myself but it’s way too perfect of a Bluesky query to go casting about in databases on my own. Who do I read on the use of bibliographic taxonomy in the cetology chapter of Moby-Dick? On the appeals to philology and compendium of testimonia?
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/...
one of my all-time faves
Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Theon to his father Theon, greeting (χαίρειν). It was a fine thing of you not to take me with you to the city! If you won't take me with you to Alexandria I won't write you a letter or speak to you or say bye to you” — a Romano-Egyptian son in Oxyrhynchos (P.Oxy. 1 119). papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;...
![Text of P.Oxy. 1 119 and image via the Bodleian: Θέων Θέωνι τῷ πατρὶ χαίρειν.
καλῶς ἐποίησες(*) οὐκ ἀπενηχες(*) με μετε ἐ-
σοῦ (*)εἰς πόλιν. ἠ(*) οὐ θέλις(*) ἀπενεκκεῖν(*) <με> με-
τὲ(*) σοῦ εἰς Ἀλεξάνδριαν οὐ μὴ γράψω σε(*) ἐ-
5πιστολὴν οὔτε λαλῶ σε(*) οὔτε υἱγενω(*) σε,
εἶτα ἂν δὲ ἔλθῃς εἰς Ἀλεξάνδριαν οὐ
μὴ λάβω χειραν(*) παρὰ [σ]οῦ οὔτε πάλι χαίρω
σε λυπόν(*). ἂμ(*) μὴ θέλῃς ἀπενέκαι(*) μ[ε]
ταῦτα γε[ί]νετε(*). καὶ ἡ μήτηρ μου εἶπε Ἀρ̣-
10χελάῳ ὅτι ἀναστατοῖ μὲ(*) ἄρρον(*) αὐτόν.
καλῶς δὲ ἐποίησες(*) δῶρά μοι ἔπεμψε[ς](*)
μεγάλα ἀράκια πεπλάνηκαν ἡμως ἐκε[ῖ](*)
τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ιβ ὅτι ἔπλευσες(*). λυπὸν(*) πέμψον εἴ[ς]
με παρακαλῶ σε. ἂμ(*) μὴ πέμψῃς οὐ μὴ φά-
15γω, οὐ μὴ πείνω(*)· ταῦτα.
ἐρῶσθέ(*) σε εὔχ(ομαι).
Τῦβι ιη.
v
ἀπόδος Θέωνι [ἀ]π̣ὸ Θεωνᾶτος υἱῶ(*).
Apparatus
^ r.2. l. ἐποίησας
^ r.2. l. ἀπενέγκας
^ r.2-3. l. μετʼ, BL 1.316 : μετὰ σοῦ prev. ed.
^ r.3. l. εἰ
^ r.3. l. θέλεις
^ r.3. l. ἀπενεγκεῖν
^ r.3-4. l. με |τὰ
^ r.4. l. σοι
^ r.5. l. σοι
^ r.5. l. ὑγιαίνω
^ r.7. l. χεῖρα
^ r.8. l. λοιπόν
^ r.8. l. ἂν
^ r.8. l. ἀπενέγκαι
^ r.9. l. γίνεται
^ r.10. l. μὴ
^ r.10. l. αἴρων
^ r.11. l. ἐποίησας
^ r.11. l. ἔπεμψας
^ r.12. l. ἡμᾶς, πεπλανηκανημ̣ω̣σεκε[ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
^ r.13. l. ἔπλευσας
^ r.13. l. λοιπὸν, λύρον (l. λύραν) prev. ed.
^ r.14. l. ἂν
^ r.15. l. πίνω
^ r.16. l. ἐρρῶσθαί
^ v.1. l. υἱοῦ
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HGV 28410 Translation (English) [xml]
(Translation: from P.Oxy. 1) Theon to his father Theon, greeting. It was a fine thing of you not to take me with you to the city! If you won't take me with you to Alexandria I won't write you a letter or speak to you or say goodbye to you; and if you go to Alexandria I won't take your hand nor ever greet you again. That is what will happen if you won't take me. Mother said to Archelaus, “It quite upsets him to be left behind(?).” It was good of you to …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:byohyhodi6iknxngf3oypcge/bafkreidsywcnsm7jdvpoc4kxdrtnhjzehhsbyi3nlnzw3abpzaa2xijwdm)
The Cotton Genesis (Cotton MS Otho B VI, 5th century) was one of the tragic victims of the Ashburnham House fire in 1731. Today, we’re delighted to release new multispectral imaging of the manuscript, allowing us to read its texts for the first time in hundreds of years. www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Rescued from the flames: the Cotton Genesis restored to life
New multispectral imaging at the British Library has helped us to read one of the earliest surviving illuminated Bibles.
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saw the clickbait headline "most academic research should stop" from the chron in my inbox and my first thought was "um, it already has????"
not me getting emotional over a speech about a team I've never followed in a city I've never lived in
I am *thrilled* to share that we are hiring again! A tenure track job in early modern literature! I’ve found Wesleyan a terrific place to work—help us spread the word? wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
Professor of English
The Department of English at Wesleyan University seeks a scholar-teacher of early modern literature for a tenure-track appointment beginning July 1, 2027. We are open to candidates with comparative ap...
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Coming in September: a new Element in Religion in Late Antiquity by Yuliya Minets: "Languages and Linguistic Diversity in Late Antique Mediterranean Religions"! Bookmark now! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Languages and Linguistic Diversity in Late Antique Mediterranean Religions
Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Languages and Linguistic Diversity in Late Antique Mediterranean Religions
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