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Matthijs den Dulk

@matthijsdendulk.bsky.social

NT & Early Christianity at Radboud | PhD, UChicago | 2025-32: PI NWO Vidi Project on Ethnicity and In/Equality in Early Christianity | Academic Director, Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion (NOSTER)

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Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3w ago

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Siobhán Jolley@siobhanjolley.bsky.social · last mo.

Exeter is one of the best TRS departments in the UK, staffed by wonderful humans doing outstanding research and excellent teaching. The shortsightedness of this decision is staggering, and there’s not much about the state of higher education that can still shock me. Please share and sign.

Francesca Stavrakopoulou@proffrancesca.bsky.social · last mo.

I’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition below! c.org/NpvY4sR9gH

Ellen Muehlberger@emuehlbe.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 New journal alert! Essays in Long Late Antiquity from @livunipress.bsky.social First issue up now, with an opening essay from the eds, three articles, and my review essay on recent books by Frank, Leyerle, and Sanzo liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/ella/1/1

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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Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe.bsky.social · last mo.

In March 2026 the University of Exeter was boasting of its top 100 QS World Rankings status for arts and humanities. Now it is devastating the same areas with drastic cuts. Something is seriously wrong. Solidarity to all the excellent colleagues affected by this. news.exeter.ac.uk/university/e...

Exeter records sweeping successes in QS World Rankings by Subject

The University of Exeter has recorded sweeping success in the latest prestigious international ranking, reflecting its strong teaching and research excellence. Exeter has recorded significant, double-...

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NINO Leiden@nino-leiden.bsky.social · last mo.

Het NINO-onderzoekscentrum is op zoek naar een redactie-assistent voor ons tijdschrift Bibliotheca Orientalis. Kijk voor de werkzaamheden en functie-eisen op onze website: buff.ly/fAHBXCG Masterstudenten aan NL universiteiten in studies binnen de NINO-interessesfeer: solliciteer uiterlijk 31 juli!

Vacature: student-assistent bij onderzoekscentrum NINO (25-6-2026)

NINO initiates, supports, and conducts scholarly research in the civilizations of the Near East from the ancient to the early modern period. In particular, it concentrates on the archaeology,…

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Danielle Beckman@daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One year ago, I gave this interview to CNN about leaving the U.S. because of cuts to scientific funding and because immigrant scientists like me no longer felt welcome there. What followed was a difficult year. (1/7) edition.cnn.com/2025/06/01/w...

The US has long been a research powerhouse. After Trump’s cuts, other countries are stepping in | CNN

Growing up in Brazil, neuroscientist Danielle Beckman always dreamed of moving to the US for work. So, in 2017, when Beckman got the opportunity to work at the California National Primate Research Cen...

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De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology@dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Congratulations to @iannelsonmills.bsky.social for receiving the De Gruyter Prize for Biblical Studies and Reception History 2025! His article is now published in #openaccess in our "Journal of the Bible and its Reception". 🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Ian N Mills@iannelsonmills.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Open Access Publication! My essay. "Canonizing Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans," won this year's DeGruyter-Brill Prize and, as of today, is available open access. I'm really proud of this one. You can download here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Matthijs den Dulk@matthijsdendulk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I wrote a little something for CUP's Fifteen Eighty Four blog on the ambiguous legacy of Paul on race/ethnicity. If you don't plan on reading my new book (totally get it), this should give you a bit of an idea of what I'm up to.

Ethnic Stereotypes and the New Testament

In the past several years we have witnessed a rapid and unsettling shift from the “post-racial” aspirations of the Obama era and the global outcry of the Black Lives Matter movement after the murder o...

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I.T. Soon@isaactsoon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Pleased to see that my latest article, entitled "The Alexamenos Graffito as Christian Self-Parody," is now out in NTS. In it I argue against the widely held view that this graffito is non-Christian in origin and that it could very well have been written by an enslaved Christian.

The first page of the journal article entitled "The Alexamenos Graffito as Christian Parody." Abstract: Against the near-universal consensus that it was created by a pagan (non-Christian) in order to satirise Christian worship, this article contends that the Alexamenos graffito can plausibly be read as a Christian self-parody, created by the enslaved Alexamenos himself. It is the first full-length treatment of the authorial origins of the Alexamenos graffito. The article first provides an overview of the visual and scholarly histories of the image since the nineteenth century. Then it addresses evidence for and against reading the text as non-Christian or Christian in origin, focusing on the apparent sexualisation of Jesus, early Christian receptions of satirical depictions of Jesus, the graffito's use of a titulus, the solidarity of the image with enslaved workers and the relevance of nearby Christian graf-fiti. Finally, it places the graffito in conversation with ancient self-parody practices from wider Greek, Roman and Christian sources. While it is impossible to argue definitively about the identity of the graffito's creator, this article contends that scholarship cannot exclude the possibility and potential likelihood that it may be Christian in origin.
Heleen Murre-van den Berg@hlmvdberg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ik hoor net dat er nog wat ruimte is om aan te schuiven bij het symposium morgen over erfgoed in/van de orthodoxe kerken in Nederland, in Museum Catherijneconvent - welkom dus! www.oosterschristendom.nl/nederland/sy...

Symposium: Religieus erfgoed in de diaspora - Platform Oosters Christendom

Ontdek hoe religieuze tradities van oosterse en oriëntaalse kerkgemeenschappen in Nederland een nieuw thuis vinden. Een dag vol inspiratie, ontmoetingen en cultuur! Momenteel is er een trend gaande: w...

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