Why Jesus Never Condemned Slavery YouTube video by Bible & Archaeology

Come listen to me talk about the uncontroversial topic of Jesus and slavery on the Bible & Archaeology podcast!

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$50 million gift to advance UChicago research and support faculty in AI Gift from Rika and Joe Mansueto launches a nearly $200 million initiative to recruit and retain leading scholars across disciplines

They could have bailed out the Division of the Humanities. But no. news.uchicago.edu/story/50-mil...

thank you! I hope it will be 😬

See y’all in Denver 🥳🥳

Just almost got hit head on when a Waymo crossed a double yellow line. But tell me again how AI technology makes everyday activities so much safer and more efficient 🙃🙃🙃

I need a caffeine IV today

Something to look forward to!

Does abstract writing ever get easier?
Signed: a girl with a lot of thoughts

I'm stunned and disappointed to see the shuttering of yet another piece of public religious studies scholarship. #acrel #amrel #aarsbl #sblaar

i have three(!) emails from students asking questions adjacent to class materials. not clarifications, these are personal research questions.

tell me again how religious studies isn’t serving US college students.

Found a good place to write with big windows so now I have to keep it a secret for the next three years so no one infiltrates my space

Presentation ✅ looking forward to see where this project on intimate & emotional labor goes! 🤗

If you catch me napping in a hotel lobby today, no you didn’t 😴😴 #aarsbl25

Touched down in Boston for #AARSBL2025! ✈️🤪

Promo graphic for my book _Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions_. The graphic features a discount code for 30% off if you purchase directly from Oxford University Press. That code is AUFLY30 (case sensitive).

today’s the day!!

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Emory’s Graduate Division of Religion has a new website! Check it out: gdr.emory.edu

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org!

I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!

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because WHY does it feel like a greenhouse in there all the time?!

My recent volume, Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts, is currently on sale through Amazon for only $4. If you’re interested, here’s the link!

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Congratulations!!! 🎉🪞

Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions Abstract. Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions is a book about how magic disappears from early Christian texts that feature

my book_smoke & mirrors_ is out on oxford scholarship online. i have many feelings, mostly good! this was a difficult write for many reasons.

so i hope you find something useful in it if you read it.

First day of my last year of coursework!! 🤪 but also how did I get here already 😳

Abstract for my forthcoming article: This article seeks to overturn more than one hundred years of scholarship that has suggested that Asclepius, the preeminent Greek god of healing, was reputed to heal by touch. Previous scholars have interpreted a small number of Attic votive reliefs as depicting touch-miracles analogous to those attributed to Jesus in the New Testament. In light of epigraphic and literary depictions of Asclepius as a divine physician, I argue that some of these reliefs show Asclepius administering medical or surgical cures, while others represent Asclepius employing the physician’s compassionate hand (παιωνία χείρ). In contrast, Jesus is portrayed as a source of divine power, which he is able to transfer to a sick or injured person by means of a simple touch without any need for a physician’s techniques. Similar touch-miracles in the Septuagint and the Genesis Apocryphon indicate that antecedents for touch-miracles attributed to Jesus can be found not in Greek healing cults but rather in Jewish traditions. Keywords: Asclepius, Amphiaraus, Jesus, healing, miracle, touch, votive

A relief found at the Asklepieion in Piraeus, which shows depicts a reclining woman in the center; a bearded Asclepius stands at the head of her bed and reaches down to touch her right shoulder with both hands. Behind Asclepius stands Hygieia, and at the foot of the bed are positioned a group of smaller figures including a bearded man, two women, and a child

A votive relief dedicated by Archinos. The left part of the image contains two figures; the smaller individual, Archinos, extends his right arm to the larger figure, Amphiaraos, who holds the arm from below with his left hand while touching his upper arm or shoulder with his right hand. The scene on the right side of the image shows Archinos reclining on a bed with an attendant standing near his head. Coming up from behind the bed is a snake, whose mouth is open on Archinos’s shoulder.

Page proof day for "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation," forthcoming in Early Christianity. Do the famous reliefs from the Piraeus Asklepieion and the Oropos Amphiareion (and others) show Greek healers conveying a cure with a simple touch? I argue that they don't.

Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

Bible and Early Christianity US Graduate School Funding SCHOLARSHIPS Fellowship Description Estimated Deadline Degree level Citizenship Davis Putter Scholarship Fund — Up to $15,000 for students who are active and emerging organizers in progressive movemen...

I’ve put together a list of funding sources for graduate students in biblical studies and early Christianity. Most of these are only available to students in the U.S. but many of them don’t have citizenship requirements. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Six different pencil illustrations of biblical passage. Features to note include Simon pictured with his mobility aids, the inclusion of the hammer the woman used to break the jar of ointment, purple sparkly oil created using lipgloss, and a realistic woman’s profile carefully washing the outstretched foot of Jesus.

For the last day of discussion groups in Interpretation of the New Testament, I had my students draw the pericope of the woman who anoints Jesus. They could go based off a specific passage, or from memory. Sharing (with permission) some of my favorites here!

Just gave my first lecture ever and it went so well 🥹 academia is rough but days like today affirm I’m doing the right thing

The Rhetoric and Ethic of Translating and Representing Enslaved Persons in New Testament and Early Christian Studies - Chance Bonar, Christy Cobb, 2025 Ancient Mediterranean literature and artistic depictions portray enslaved persons as diminutive, marginal, and non-descript—when they are portrayed at all. In t...

Today, @christycobb.bsky.social and I’s JSNT article dropped! Go read “The Rhetoric and Ethic of Translating and Representing Enslaved Persons in New Testament and Early Christian Studies”

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