Two years after submission, twenty-two years after conception, it’s published. I believe Sept. 28 is the official publication date in the US. Not sure about the UK and elsewhere. I’ll share a discount code when I receive one.
Jamey Walters
@jedwardwalters.bsky.social
History professor. Former manuscript cataloger. Research: Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Syriac manuscripts, Syriac Literature. He/him.
An earlier translation of the fourth of the homilies on Cain and Abel appeared in @jedwardwalters.bsky.social's Eastern Christianity: A Reader (www.eerdmans.com/978080287686...) and can be read there alongside many other treasures of eastern Christian literature.
Eastern Christianity
A rich anthology of early Eastern Christian textsEastern Christianity: A Reader is an unparalleled collection of significant texts from Syriac, Armenian, Geo...
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I am happy to announce the publication of a new English translation of Jacob of Serugh's four homilies on Cain and Abel. It was wonderful to work on this project with Jeff Wickes! The homilies are fascinating theological and literary works: svspress.com/verse-homili...
Verse Homilies on Cain and Abel
Founded in 1968, St Vladimir's Seminary Press is the largest and most active publisher of Orthodox Christian books in the English language.
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hey! you! almost 1000 folks have read/downloaded Virginia Burrus's new Element in Religion in Late Antiquity, isn't it time you joined them? 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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Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 3w ago
do we still do good news on here? i just learned that my 1939 ny world's fair research was awarded runner-up of best 2025 article published in the ieee annals of the history of computing. timely as ever, about corporate dreams of tech utopia + spectacular tech debuted to distract from rising fascism
People seem to think Odysseus was a tortured hero. The truth is quite different. Check out my latest on Joel Christensen @sentantiq.bsky.social 's new book. Comments from @profarumpark.bsky.social, @sarahebond.bsky.social, @eleanormartin.bsky.social www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
Was Odysseus actually a hero?
For centuries, Homer's epic poem and central character Odysseus have been misunderstood, but these are the main ways people get it wrong.
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Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply
Another historical inaccuracy from Nolan—IMAX had not yet been invented in the Mycenaean period, so this is not the aspect ratio that people saw in! Smh
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
I'm working on a chapter about the pharmacology of eucharistic bread in antiquity, with some attention to the role of bread stamps. And because academic research is WILD I'm eagerly learning about how this history leads us directly to Waffle House waffles.
My kids have measles, I lost my job, and a parasite that the CDC no longer monitors has given me explosive diarrhea. But at least now there’s no plaques honoring Black scientists at the Smithsonian.
Have you organized a smashing session at #IMC2026 that fits somewhere in the first millennium and you are thinking about publishing it? Essays in Long Late Antiquity accept proposals for special issues and special sections, just get in touch! 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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Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4w ago‘The Odyssey’ women Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, and Charlize Theron stun in Paris.
The huge anti-Julianist florilegium preserved in the Catenae Patrum of the British Library represents an exceptional repository of patristic testimonies transmitted in Syriac, some of which are lost in the Greek original and remained unpublished until now. 🔗 brill.com/display/ti...
This looks excellent.
De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology@dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 4w agoHot off the Press 📖 A Syriac Patristic Florilegium against Julian of Halicarnassus by Guido Venturini 📜 How is a #florilegium constructed, and why does this peculiar type of literary work deserve to be studied? 🧵(1/2)
It's The Pearlsong's one-year anniversary today. If you haven't yet, tune in for a fun story in Syriac, Greek, and English, and lots more to spark your interest. Open-access here, with a link to purchase a(n inexpensive) hard copy with very nice paper: cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications...
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Adam Bremer-McCollum@acbm.bsky.social · 12mo agoThe Pearlsong has been out for just over a month. The PDF is (and will be) freely available at the link. For $40, "wherever books are sold," you can enjoy it materially, with beautiful paper and a snake-&-pearl cover. ⬇️ A quick rundown of the book, and why you might be interested in it:
Ever since King Henry III rolled out the Communist Manifesto at Westminster in 1226.
Oh cool, an Easter egg feature that traps you in a driverless car and kidnaps you when it's decided you've misbehaved. Imagine what a hacker group or ICE can do with this. The fact that this is even functionally possible is horrifying.
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning...we talked for just shy of 20 minutes"
Men In Black: Alien in Human Head Reveal
Alt: Men In Black: Alien in Human Head Reveal
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Instructions on writing with invisible ink, from the third-century "Refutation of All Heresies":
Apocrypha alert! New article in Catholic Historical Review on canonical and noncanonical views of St Joseph in Santa Maria Maggiore muse.jhu.edu/article/993519
Ancient Herculaneum scroll read for the first time after nearly 2,000 years | Archaeology News Online Magazine archaeologymag.com/2026/07/herc...
Ancient Herculaneum scroll read for the first time after nearly 2,000 years | Archaeology News Online Magazine
Researchers digitally read a sealed Herculaneum scroll after nearly 2,000 years, revealing a rare ancient Stoic philosophical text.
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Slaughter is an earthquake: SCOTUS has overturned a 90-year-old precedent that facilitated much of modern governance by granting many agencies meaningful independence from the president. Now SCOTUS crushes that independence ... for seemingly every agency except the Federal Reserve.
We have Slaughter and Cook. By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS overturns Humphrey's Executor and lets Trump fire heads of independent agencies. But by a 5–4 vote, it refuses to let him fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has rejected President Trump’s push to toss a $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll’s sexual abuse case.
Supreme Court rejects Trump’s push to toss $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case
The Supreme Court is rejecting a push by President Donald Trump to throw out a jury’s finding that he sexually abused writer E.
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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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