Prepping for our SBL book review panel of @kelsbot.bsky.social ‘s new monograph on the NT canon! Join us on 11/23, 1-3.30 pm!
Kelsie Rodenbiker
@kelsbot.bsky.social
pseudepigraphy, manuscripts, canon with scare quotes | Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen | PhD, University of Durham
Thanks, Isaac!
I.T. Soon@isaactsoon.bsky.social · 12mo agoKelsie Rodenbiker's new book on the Catholic Epistles is available digitally via OUP and honestly it's a blast. Chapters 3 and 4 especially heavily critique notions about the stability of the Catholic Epistle collection and the formation of the New Testament canon. tinyurl.com/46e88p25
In less than two weeks, I'll be hosting this @researchireland.ie New Foundations event @chesterbeatty.bsky.social and @dublincityuni.bsky.social! Very much looking forward to working with a fab team on ideas about 'home' and the late antique artefacts in Beatty's collections!
My book is out online! It won’t feel real until the print book comes out in September, but I’m excited to see it out in the world at last.
Scriptural Figures and the Fringes of the New Testament Canon
Abstract. In the Catholic Epistles, canonicity and exemplarity are intertwined. Chapter 1 defines the concept of exemplarity as the use of a model-figure a
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📣 Seminar Spotlight: Later Epistles The chairs (@kelsbot.bsky.social and Nick Moore) welcome proposals on Hebrews, the Catholic Epistles, the Deutero-Pauline Epistles, and other early Christian letters. This year we particularly welcome papers with a focus on any aspect of these texts’ reception.
Lily Vuong, “Beyond Boundaries: Scholarly Categories and the Apocryphal Mary in Text, Pictorial Art, and Iconography,” MTSR Online Publication Date: 20 Mar 2025
The British New Testament Society is now on Bluesky!
Review of my book by Steven Friesen out in Pasts Imperfect: "Academia needs studies like this that raise suppressed questions if we are to understand better the ancient texts, their histories of usefulness, our academic disciplines, and our contemporary societal struggles."
bracing (and positive!) review of @robertamazza.bsky.social's STOLEN FRAGMENTS in RBL by @gpfewster.bsky.social www.sblcentral.org/API/Reviews/...
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it’s so delightfully obvious when early christianity scholars have feelings™️ about our primary sources. 😂
The best part is that it's in a former Augustinian nunnery. We do have a couple of spots still available to attend, so if you're interested, do hit us up.
Dr Tom de Bruin@tdbiii.bsky.social · 2y agoTogether with @siobhanjolley.bsky.social, I'm organising a symposium this summer in Nijmegen (NL). We have the opportunity to support 2 PGRs with travel grants to attend and participate. Feel free to share and hit us up with questions.
Interested in hearing Tom's paper? Email me or @garrickvallen.bsky.social for the hybrid link.
Dr Tom de Bruin@tdbiii.bsky.social · 2y agoNext week I get to share a bit of my book by presenting on #twilight, @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social and 1 Clement in Glasgow. Looking forward to good times with @garrickvallen.bsky.social and @kelsbot.bsky.social
Next week I get to share a bit of my book by presenting on #twilight, @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social and 1 Clement in Glasgow. Looking forward to good times with @garrickvallen.bsky.social and @kelsbot.bsky.social
I am immensely grateful to have been awarded a Major Research Fellowship by @leverhulme.bsky.social, for a project to consider "Biblical Pseudepigrapha and Eclectic Philosophical Cultures in Antiquity”. @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @abdndivinity.bsky.social www.abdn.ac.uk/news/23914/
Prestigious Fellowship to explore a 'window onto the eclectic philosophical cultures of antiquity'
A University of Aberdeen biblical scholar has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship to reevaluate the significance of the "biblical pseudepigrapha" as witnesses to philosophical cu...
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Hey NT scholars of bluesky, what is in your opinion the best recent introductions to NT?
Please spread the word... Hyatt on Sunday of SBL, 9:00-11:00pm.
I am excited to announce that in May 2025 I will be succeeding John J. Collins as the General Editor of the world leading Yale Anchor Bible Series. It's an honor for me to serve as the steward of this important series. @yalebooks.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/pr...
Professor Candida Moss appointed as General Editor of the Anchor Yale Bible Series - University of Birmingham
Yale University Press recognised Professor Moss’ unique expertise in the field of Theology
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Forthcoming from OUP, early 2025 (featuring Peter from GA 1751)
Out in the fall in the Journal of Early Christian Studies!
New proposed title for the Epistle of James: Cut the Bullshit Already.
what a vision for education and doing history -- to be baffled, imaginative, nimble.
Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 2y agoThe dust is never settled: Prof. Laura Nasrallah on history, biblical scholarship, and contemporary religion divinity.yale.edu/news/dust-ne... @yaledivinityschool.bsky.social
The finished copies of my book have arrived! So excited to share this with the world and so honored by these endorsements from Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Catherine Nixey, Tim Whitmarsh, A-J Levine, and others. It's 20% off today on the Hachette website: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/candi...
"Classical scholars may with advantage occasionally glance at the New Testament." Sick burn, Zuntz ("The Critic Correcting the Author")