@maiakotro.bsky.social

Looking forward to reading this!

Workshop on Coptic #Papyrology at La Sapienza (in person only: 13, 20 and 27 May, and June 3, 10 and 17 June).

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

How do I pitch you? I have a recent piece in mind.

Jetzt ist es endlich soweit: Hier ist der erste Band des "Epigraphical Commentary on the New Testament" zum 1.Thessalonicherbrief von Julien Ogereau: Open Access und mit einer Menge an neuen Einsichten:
www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/1-thess...
#epigraphy #1Thessalonians

Announcing the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.

congrats to Karen Stern on her *GUGGENHEIM*!!

www.gf.org/stories/anno...

Coptic in Manchester .

We've launched the website for our 'Coptic in Manchester: Connecting Manuscripts and Communities' UKRI-funded project ('26–28) with @thejohnrylands.bsky.social !

Please share!

sites.google.com/view/coptici...

Will do! A volume from this conference is planned, but I also have more in the pipeline from this work on gospel prefaces.

Yes.

Keep an eye out for Dr. Hanna Tervanotko’s new book, Signs and Meanings: Divination and the Production of Knowledge in Jewish Antiquity, which comes out later this year with University of California Press!

www.ucpress.edu/books/signs-...

A fresco showing a man in a white toga standing behind a counter piled with round loaves of bread, reaching out to hand bread to two adult men and a child in front of him.

Campaigning in Roman times: For #FrescoFriday a painting from Pompeii that was long believed to show the sale of bread. It's thought now to be the free distribution of bread ahead of an election by a politician in a white toga.

Photo: MANN Inv. No. 9071

🏺 #archaeology #romanarchaeology

worth your while! I’ll have to tell you more about it. Alas, my copy is in Berkeley and not Princeton, or I’d loan it.

Have you seen the Abrams/Dorst “Ship of Theseus”? Inclusions galore!

Was können uns die Lebewesen des #Meeres über die Kultur- und Religions-, über die Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte des mittelalterlichen #Mittelmeerraums verraten? Vortrag von Nikolaus Jaspert (@uniheidelberg.bsky.social)
👉Präsenz- oder Online-Teilnahme: t1p.de/marine_lebew... 👉Flyer: t1p.de/kmr3b

She was very kind and encouraging to me when I was a grad student. I’m incredibly sad to hear this news.

Averil was brilliant, kind, and generous. A life well lived and also a huge loss. She and my PhD advisor Liz Clark were very close, so I got to know her just a bit beyond the scholarship. She had a profound effect on Roman and Byzantine history

Front Cover: Rome, Catacomb of Commodilla, fresco of Tutura with Felix, Adauctus, and Mary with Christ child (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

Journal of Late Antiquity Vol. 19, No. 1 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56670 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @youngrichardkim.bsky.social
@hugomendez.bsky.social

Avis aux intéressés! J'aurais le plaisir d'enseigner un cours sur la Septante cet été. Cette traduction ancienne de l'Ancien Testament a joué un rôle important tant dans le monde juif que chez les premiers chrétiens. Le cours proposera un survol de ces questions et du canon de l'Ancien Testament.

Pasts Imperfect (4.2.26) This week, Nandini Pandey, Niek Janssen, and Christopher Londa discuss writing, labor, and enslavement in Roman antiquity. Then, a new book on Venice and the Mongols, how ancient Maya communities made...

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! 📚 This week, Nandini Pandey, Niek Janssen & Christopher Londa discuss enslaved readers & writers in Roman antiquity. Then, Venice & the Mongols, a podcast on Cahokia, ancient astrological practices, ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more.

How AI Hype Masks the Exploitation of African Workers AI is a consolidation of labor hierarchies, a plunder of African skills, and a commodification of African knowledge, write Marché Arends and Kathryn Cleary.

What is marketed as AI “innovation” is, in practice, a consolidation of global labor hierarchies and a commodification of African knowledge, write Marché Arends and Kathryn Cleary, drawing on their year-long investigation supported by the Pulitzer Center and published by Africa Uncensored.

I look forward to talking about corrections! As I was preparing the paper and looked through my old notes, it turned out that this was the very first topic I tried to tackle at the beginning of my DPhil — back then I thought I could cover all its aspects in a couple of pages...

Dear Andrew Jacobs, Congratulations! Your proposal, Conversion and Transition in the Life and Martyrdom of Susanna, has been accepted by the Jewish Christianity / Christian Judaism Section program unit.

oh that's nice. see you in Denver!

Who was the real Pontius Pilate? The Roman prefect, known to Christians as the man responsible for Jesus' death, is one of the few New Testament figures to appear in the archaeological record.

Easter timed piece on Pontius Pilate featuring the work of Helen Bond...

www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

Inventaires de bibliothèques syriaques : état des lieux et nouvelles découvertes Séance du 2 avril 2026 du séminaire Manuscrits en Méditerranée, par André Binggeli et Flavia Ruani (IRHT, CNRS UPR 841). L’importance des inventaires de livres pour l’histoire de la culture livresque ...

Prochaine séance du séminaire Manuscrits en Méditerranée @irht-cnrs.bsky.social ce jeudi 2 avril, à 14h, @campuscondorcet.bsky.social et en ligne. Flavia Ruani et André Binggeli : Inventaires de bibliothèques syriaques : état des lieux et nouvelles découvertes
manuscrits.hypotheses.org/8638
#syriac

A very yellow flyer with a falling, broken column capital ripped straight from the cover of Sarah Bond's book. This flyer advertises Prof Bond's lecture "A History of Rome in 5 Strikes" today at GU!

It's @sarahebond.bsky.social day at Gonzaga!

The Vergilius Romanus is a C5th AD illustrated manuscript of the works of Virgil. It contains the Aeneid, Georgics, & some Eclogues. It is one of the oldest manuscripts of his work.

One of its well preserved illustrations is this delightful portrait of Virgil.

🏛️📷 Biblioteca Apostolica, Vatican

Making of the Bible: Texts and Languages The new Parker Library Exhibition, 'Making of the Bible: Texts and Languages', tells the story of the Christian Bible as a book in England through some of the medieval manuscripts and early-print trea...

Our current exhibition "Making of the Bible: Texts and Languages" closes at the end of the month 📖 👀

www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/mak...

Two more chances to visit it (23 & 31 March) - book your tickets via our Eventbrite site!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/parker-lib...

#MedievalMSS

So you have an interview for grad school… So you will not be executed at the end of the interview, I promise. Right there you’re better off than Louis XVI and family. [Link to image source]. Also you’re probably a better person…

What other advice do you give mentees... ? Do you disagree with any of mine?

livyarrow.org/2026/03/23/s...

NYU Center for Religion and New Media
April 8, 2026 at 6pm EST on Zoom

Editors from Religion Dispatches (Megan Goodwin), Arc: Religion, Politics, Etc. (Mark Oppenheimer), and The Revealer (Brett Krutzsch), will discuss how to publish articles
about religion for broad readerships.