"vanity, vanity, all of life is vanity," he says to himself while trapped in a Syriac copy editing doom loop.

SO helpful - thank you!!!

Question for my NT colleagues: does anyone have easy access to the Jewish Annotated New Testament and could tell me the print page numbers of David Frankfurter's Revelation introduction?

Tertullian always teaches well in my experience. A real take artist. Oh, and Laura Nasrallah has a chapter in her _Archaeology and the Letters of Paul_ that does a nice job dealing with the pseudepigrapha question (with bonus points for discussing the cult of Thecla). I send it to students often

Tertullian's treatise on baptism is the classic example of Patristic authors declaring one pseudepigraphic letter (1 Tim) to be true and the other (likely the Acts of Paul and Thecla) to be false in ways that further his own (patriarchal) ideas on gender roles. www.philipharland.com/Blog/2005/10...

Last day of free download! 😱

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.

RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods

Rip to every president who lost a war in the middle east but I’m different. And better. Maybe even good enough to win a war in the middle east

Senior thesis advising has to be the most rewarding part of undergraduate teaching. And now that I think of it, that is probably why the work functionally amounts to unpaid labor.

Two weeks left to apply

What the students don't know (and surely don't care to know) is that all my clever little titles for class sessions are actually just pithy titles of books I like.

The TA is, far and away, the strongest NTT faculty union contract I've ever seen. Includes not just the 20% raises (as if that weren't enough!) but:
- Paid prof development leave (i.e., sabbaticals)
- Course releases for union service
- Union security (fair share fees)
- PI rights
- Academic Freedom

Education in Religious Contexts of Late Antiquity Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Education in Religious Contexts of Late Antiquity

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So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Exhuming the Archive: Examining the Cemeteries of Antioch-on-the-Orontes Through Legacy Archaeological Research | April 2026 (130.2) | American Journal of Archaeology Parts of ancient Antioch (modern Antakya, Türkiye) were excavated from 1932 to 1939 by a team led by Princeton University. Key findings were published in five volumes, but much more data remains in th...

Parts of Antioch's cemeteries were erratically excavated in the 1930s. I gathered that data and published it, most of it for the first time. If your research touches on Antioch's cemeteries, have fun exploring this piece and the supplementary appendices!

ajaonline.org/article/exhu...

And now he is dropping late antique references? And correctly on top of that?

How Much Did It Cost to Paint a Pompeii Room Egyptian Blue? The price of covering a room in the prized pigment was equal to between 50% and 90% of a Roman legionary's annual salary, a new study estimates.

My latest for @hyperallergic.com is on Egyptian Blue—& a new study by Mishael Quraishi which prices out the Roman cost & manual labor needed to paint the “Blue Room” at Pompeii. Shout outs & thx: @hilarybeckertxny.bsky.social , @diffendale.bsky.social , @chapps.bsky.social, @valentinadl.bsky.social!

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Archaeology of the Levant (from south-central Türkiye to northwestern Saudi Arabia) during the Bronze and Iron Ages (3,000 to 500 BCE),

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Among the many delights in this preview is a reminder of the lovely days I got to spend in Naples. If anyone would like me to return to Naples to talk about literally anything, I shall gratefully accept your invitation.

I've been doing a lot of the same, especially in my first year seminar. A fun wrinkle in this was the college deciding to save money by capping student printing budgets just before the start of the academic year. Another equity barrier thrown onto the faculty's lap.

Shaily this class sounds so good! Would you be willing to share a copy of the syllabus?

I had a similar experience with them, sent a followup, and then got a (kinda rude) desk rejection in response. I suspect mine got lost in the shuffle between EIC's. The article found a good home elsewhere, but I wonder about the state of this particular venue.

Preacher and Audience Studies: Reading the Dharmabhāṇakaparivarta and Sukhavihāraparivarta of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-sūtra as Homiletic Manuals ABSTRACT. The study of homiletics, preachers, and their audiences constitutes an important subfield in Christian studies. In Buddhist studies, the study of

My colleague @rhcraig.bsky.social is in the next issue of JAAR with a fascinating comparative study of Early Christian preaching manuals, African-American homiletics, and early Buddhist preaching: academic.oup.com/jaar/article...

The Chains that Bind: Two Visions for the Future of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies Classicism and Other Phobias by Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University Press, 2025)

An amazing review essay of Scheidel’s What is Ancient History and Padilla Peralta’s Classicisms and Other Phobias.

planudes.medium.com/the-chains-t...

“The emails show that Diehl denied those stipulations. H remained at UT for 12 more years. H received a centennial professorship in 2014 and said he used funds from that role to pay for the 2016 Theorizing Consent conference."

Former professor requested thousands from Jeffrey Epstein Foundation to fund campus rape policy conference Content warning: This story contains discussion of pedophilia, sexual assault, harassment, rape and suicide. A former UT Classics professor requested over $10,000 from Jeffrey Epstein’s charitable org...

"H was approached about early retirement shortly after. He then requested a centennial professorship, which comes with an endowment used at the prof’s discretion...and a salary of $250k through 2012, at which point he would retire and drop legal claims against UT." thedailytexan.com/2026/02/10/f...

Tis but the curse of Adam, good sir!

That YDN article delivers quite the shot/chaser combo: faculty at alma mater suggested his student(s) to JE, then he immediately defends it to his colleagues as a totally natural way to "care" for one's students in places like that.

Joe Dumars level galaxy brain decision making.

Absolutely. When you, Maia, and other great people step into these roles it makes space for the best parts of the field to survive.