Thanks JP!

Thank you so much!

It's been a long time since I've had a scholarly network on here (or anywhere), but this feels worth announcing: my first book is officially under contract with Oxford University Press! Provisional title: "Teaching the Gospel: Ancient Pedagogy and the Earliest Gospel Readers"

finding water has been a major challenge!

Book cover. The background in sepia tones Showa man dictating to scribes. A cream box in the center has light brown writing that contains the title (Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean) and the words "Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candid R. Moss, and Jospeh A. Howley.

Excited to announce that after a lot of editorial work our volume "Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE" is out now. @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social @illdottore.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/book/60683

Dr. Heilmann, would you be willing to share a PDF of this review?

Thanks Alexi!

One (major) step closer to PhDone! Today I successfully defended my dissertation, "Teaching the Gospel: Ancient Pedagogy and the Quest for 'Gospel Communities.'"

Seriously! Lincicum and Eubank plenty heavyweight on their own, of course!

wow! I had no idea all of them were retiring!!

"authors are not spokespersons for communities" I repeat to myself as I receive another round of feedback from my dissertation committee

Thanks Eli!

Main text allusion to interesting scholaship > endnote with author-date citation > bibliography with the damn title you wanted

they really make you work for it these days

I'm a bit late in announcing this online, but I got a job! I've accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. Looking forward to the next stage!

Dissertation tidbit: "At the risk of stating the obvious: most ancient literature was consumed by literate persons. This is true even if members of a reading network primarily engaged with their texts in oral/aural settings."

#amwriting

No way! I knew Nate back in his SoCal days; we went to church together.

The person who wrote Romans 9 really should have talked with the person who wrote Romans 11. They would have had a productive conversation.

when you get a new meteorology thesaurus and start a job as an AP headline writer on the same day

They need to make an undo option for starter packs

I followed a starter pack of “funny accounts” under the AOC post and this app become as unusable as the other place and if I’m honest way less funny. Unfollowing one by one to regain my curated echo chamber

same man

In a recent interview a faculty member asked about an article of mine and I thanked them for reading it and they said they had not read it

your first two skeets really aptly capture your twitter presence

There should be a feature to mute someone’s reskeets but still see their actual posts

We’ve actually got to start using it if it’s going to become a reasonable Twitter alternative!

Taking the year off from SBL--Sophie says good luck writing your papers

Man, biblical studies twitter was what got me onto the platform. People talked about scholarship and ideas in accessible and inviting formats. If Bluesky recaptures any of that energy it will be a worthwhile enterprise

happy to be here folks. I’ll be as quiet on here as I was on the other place probably