Simcha Gross
@simchagross.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Ancient Jewish History, UPenn https://upenn.academia.edu/SimchaGross
There is a new Cambridge elements out today, _ Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible_ by Ilan Peled. It is free to read for the next two weeks, so get reading. 🪄 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible
Cambridge Core - Biblical Studies - Old Testament, Hebrew Bible - Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible
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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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Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism Vol. 24, Nos. 1-2 (2024) muse.jhu.edu/issue/57169 @iupress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social Professor Harry Austryn Wolfson Commemoration
Delighted that my next book, Empires, Communities, and Loyalty on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier, is forthcoming with Cambridge UP! It explores when, why, & how questions of loyalty became attached to groups as such, esp. Jews & diverse Christian communities, & their political/social/religious effects
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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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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Just out in newest HTR!! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (As always, happy to send a PDF to anyone w/o institutional access)
bookmark it now! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination
Cambridge Core - History of Religion - Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination
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Sabrina Inowlocki@sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · 2mo agoProofs have arrived. Looking forward to the end product in early July!
Warsaw Late Antique Seminar on 28 May: Tina Sessa (Ohio State University), Disaster at Scale: Experiencing Ruinous Events in Late Antiquity. And this is our last meeting this academic year. Join us in person or online:)
Check out David Miller’s (McMaster PhD 2005) newest article, “Josephus and Jewish Ethnonyms: Restoration Eschatology or Jewish Antiquity?” in the Journal for the Study of Judaism! brill.com/view/journal...
It’s time to start working through some proofs! This one has been a long time coming. @philipforness.bsky.social
Journal for the Study of Judaism Vol. 57, No. 2 (2026) brill.com/view/journal... @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social @simchagross.bsky.social
My book is 50% off through Princeton's Spring Sale if you were looking to snag it at a deal. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
How Rabbis Became Experts
How rabbinic expertise was socially constructed, performed, and defended in Roman Palestine
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Two new articles published, happy to share pdfs: “Synagogue Elevation and Divine Protection between Palestine and Babylonia,” JSQ 33 (2026) 107-132 “The Impact of Sasanian Imperialism on the Culture and Literature of the Babylonian Rabbis,” in What is the Talmud ed. Harris/Hayes (HUP 2026) 226-255
Just published open source: a fascinating new book by the great Gideon Bohak exploring one of the earliest Jewish polemical texts against Christianity, which is often conflated with, but in fact is a rather different precursor to, Toledot Yeshu: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
The Sentencing of Jesus (Gzar-dina de-Yeshu): The 'Authentic' Jewish Protocols of the Trial of Jesus
By reconstructing an ancient polemical text that has previously been known only in a fragmentary manner, and by situating it both within its Late Antique context and in the context of previous scholar...
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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...
Studies in Late Antiquity Vol. 10, No. 2 (2026) online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/10/2 @ucpress.bsky.social Paradoxography and Late Antique Knowledge Production @monikaamsler.bsky.social @worldlyscribe.bsky.social @berglund.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy
Volume 10 Issue 2 | Studies in Late Antiquity | University of California Press
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With contributions by @zafulotus.bsky.social @mauat.bsky.social, Julie van Pelt, Barbara Crostini and yours truly.
Monika Amsler@monikaamsler.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe thematic section of Judaica on "Nature Miracles and Paradoxography in Biblical Reception of the First Centuries CE" has been published! For the open-access issue go to: judaica.ch/thematic-sec... For those interested more generally in Late Antiquity, a special issue in SLA will soon follow!
A bit of news! I have accepted a tenured position at Denison University. They recruited me to chair their Religion department, architect a rebuild of its curriculum, and help launch a Jewish studies program. I formally begin July 1st.
Anyone looking for some last minute Passover reading, check out my article on the odd Aramaic opening "invitation" of the Haggadah: www.academia.edu/44600798/Who...
'Whoever Is Hungry, Come and Eat' On the Origins and Winding Reception of a Puzzling Passover Passage
The provenance of the opening Aramaic portion of the Passover Haggadah has confounded practitioners and scholars for centuries. Little evidence has come to light to explain the origins of this passage...
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For anyone interested, a historiographic retrospective on the state of the historical study of the Babylonian Talmud, @ancientjewreview.bsky.social : www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/3/...
The Historical Talmud — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
We may, in fact, be approaching a moment when historical literacy—much like philology—ought to be regarded as a basic expectation of rigorous scholarship on the Talmud. If so, the question before us i...
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🧯Hot off the press: Education in Religious Contexts of Late Antiquity (Cambridge Element) > free download until April 8! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Education in Religious Contexts of Late Antiquity
Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Education in Religious Contexts of Late Antiquity
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Proofs for a forthcoming article: "The Conversion of Adiabene: The Politics of Jewishness on the Near Eastern Frontier."
In celebration of pi day, I’m excited to share that my next book—Hidden Numbers: Mathematical Thinking in the Bible and Beyond—is under contact with the Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library! It’ll be a few years before it’s out, but I look forward to sharing slices of the project in the meantime.
Shaul’s new translation book is out and Open Access—making accessible selections from the writings of the Satmar Rebbe (i.e. Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum) w/focus on recovering his significance as a political thinker @ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/jewish...
Jewish Anti-Zionism as Political Theology by Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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