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Exhibit open April 11, 2026 – August 2, 2026 @ransomcenter.bsky.social Lives and Literacy in Ancient Egypt www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/... @thejohnrylands.bsky.social

There's also Vermes, Discovery in the Judaean Desert (1956).

One of the great quotes from the van der Ploeg volume is him taking issue with Dupont-Sommer and Allegro "and their amateur following" (p. 192).

That's right! I think the 1956 version was titled The Jewish Sect of Qumran and the Essenes. I also forgot Rabin, Qumran Studies (1957)

Allegro, The Dead Sea Scrolls (1957)
Burrows, The Dead Sea Scrolls (1955) and More Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls (1958)
Cross, The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies (1958)
Milik, Ten Years of Discovery in the Wilderness of Judaea (1959)
Yadin, The Message of the Scrolls (1957)

Any other "early scholar" gems you can think of? Here's my short list...

Maybe “Total Pittance This Period”?

Have always loved reading the work of early Scrolls scholars. It offers a unique window on early thought on the Scrolls and on the first generation of scholars who worked on them.

Cover of J. van der Ploeg’s *The Excavations at Qumran: A Survey of the Judaean Brotherhood and its Ideas*

Did some peer review for a journal last week and came across a reference to this little gem from 1958. Looking forward to the reading! #DeadSeaScrolls

journal cover

Early Christianity Vol. 17, No. 1 (2026) www.mohrsiebeck.com/heft/early-c... @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social Reimagining Gospel Literature @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social
@sarahparkhouse.bsky.social
@julialindenlaub.bsky.social @hugomendez.bsky.social

New article from @isaactsoon.bsky.social and myself on some Jewish Babylonian warlords in Josephus’ Antiquities. Hopefully will be of interest, it gets into questions around masculinity, orientalism and physiognomy in Josephus. Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Disaster Capitalism in Higher Education | Los Angeles Review of Books What happens to local economies when universities downsize or shutter?

“Today, the average professor in higher education is a contract worker without benefits or job security. They are often paid miserably to teach double or even triple the number of students as their tenure-track counterparts.” + lareviewofbooks.org/article/disa...

"a dynasty of gravediggers whose documents record aspects of their everyday lives over roughly 80 years (c. 237–314 AD)." !!!

Voellmy aptly concludes, "Besides giving a valuable summary of Bell’s most important ritual terminology, the volume demonstrates the versatility of her concepts. Yet by applying Bell’s framework to specific texts, the contributors add further refinement to her theory."

Cover of *Tracing the Ritual Body: Catherine Bell and Rituals of the Ancient Biblical World* (Cohen, DeMaris, and Schwiebert, eds.)

Excellent review of *Tracing the Ritual Body: Catherine Bell and Rituals of the Ancient Biblical World* (Cohen, DeMaris, Schwiebert, eds.) by Giancarlo Voellmy for RBL. @sblsite.bsky.social @tandtclark.bsky.social

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Congratulations to Dr. Michael Johnson (McMaster PhD 2019) on the publication of his coedited volume, Performance, Space, and Time in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Papers from the Eleventh Meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Zürich 2022, with Brill:

brill.com/edcollbook/t...

From your lips to god’s ears

1,000% he’s that guy!

Definitely did not have JD Vance calling out the Pope on matters of theology on my bingo card today.

Trump claims now-deleted AI image depicts him as doctor, not Jesus YouTube video by Face the Nation

Here's @candidamoss.bsky.social explaining extremely concisely 1) why everyone sees a Jesus figure (not a red cross dr) in that image, and 2) what the Pope is criticizing in his statements. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee7Z...

Opinion | The Hostile Takeover of Higher Education Business interests captured governing boards long before Trump.

"A naïve observer might mistake the boards of large private institutions for the advisory boards of their business schools."

www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Calling all Professors of Religion! Do you teach an intro to the study of religion course? If so, would you be willing to share your syllabus? Collecting for research purposes.

Truly some pro-level gaslighting.

Say what?!? (BTW, the comments on this post are SOLID gold!)

The struggle is real.

This looks amazing. And very timely.

Last day of free download! 😱

Episode 323: Andrew Tobolowsky- The Myth of the Twelve Tribes — The Bible for Normal People In this week’s episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared talk with Andrew Tobolowsky about what scholars mean by “myth” and how that idea applies to the Bible. They explore the origins of...

had a long drive today but saw the latest Bible for Normal People was starring @andytobo.bsky.social and his research on the myth of the twelve tribes of Israel

great episode, but far less discussion of backyard hoops than one might expect from his feed

thebiblefornormalpeople.com/episodes/epi...

Congress, you MUST do your job—right now and without hesitation. Impeach and remove.