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Those going SBL, here’s a panel not to miss: a review session of Sarah Bond’s book Strike (Yale, 2025), with responses by Jen Quigley, Richard Last, Larry Welborn, and Laura Nasrallah. Should be a great conversation! Many thanks to Agnes Choi for taking the lead on organizing.

Looking forward to this year’s ARROW sessions at SBL, which all look terrific! Grateful to the unit for allowing me and Jaimie Gunderson to plan a session on “Problematizing “Christianization” in Rough Cilicia and Isauria,” with a handful of colleagues who don’t usually make it to this conference.

🚨 We’re hiring for another Postdoc position in my department: Religion and Health (one year). Please share with anyone who might be interested!

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Religion and Health Job Posting Title: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Religion and Health ---- Hiring Department: Department of Religious Studies ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 ---- FLS...

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The Department of Religious Studies is seeking to appoint a two-year postdoctoral fellow with a specialization in Religion, Healing, and Magic in Late Antiquity.

Please visit tinyurl.com/2k8bmyz5 for the job posting and more information. Review of applications will begin Oct. 31, 2025.

@rsutaustin.bsky.social

ISAC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Religion, Healing, and Magic in Late Antiquity Job Posting Title: ISAC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Religion, Healing, and Magic in Late Antiquity ---- Hiring Department: Department of Religious Studies ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Wee...

🚨 Postdoc at UT Austin Religious Studies in Religion, Healing, and Magic in Late Antiquity (2 years)! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UTstaf...

A fantastic overview by UT-RS PhD student Niketas Belovorodov of the conference’s keynote by Petra Kuppinger on Muslims’ neighborhood interactions in Stuttgart and Ted Gordon’s feature presentation on Black churches and the racial demography of Austin. Thanks, Niketas!

@meghanhenning.bsky.social

Today at 4pm Central Time: Dr. Meghan Henning on “Manufacturing Martha’s Madness: Enslavement, Anxiety, and Distraction in Luke 10:38–42.” In-person at UT in RLP 1.302 and streaming on Zoom (follow link below). All are welcome!

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Hardly even satire! I wrote a piece a couple yrs ago on “second-amendment exegesis” among political influencers and bible “scholars” alike. Happy to share by email if anyone wants a copy. academia.edu/resource/wor...

The Los Angeles Wildfires Have Indeed Been Biblical — But Not in the Way You Think If you’ve ever lived in Los Angeles or if you have loved ones who do, you know that the January wildfires have felt especially like hell—a unique experience even in a city as well acquainted with disa...

This is not the first time I have had to watch loved ones survive (un)natural disasters, and I feel ill equipped to speak to the #lawildfires. But here are a few musings on the uses and abuses of the #bible that contributed to and emerge from this disaster: religiondispatches.org/the-los-ange...

Thanks Sarah!

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Cover page of article “Antisemitic Charisma”

🚨 Very pleased to announce the publication of a new article I had the privilege of co-authoring with Lara Boleslawsky. “Antisemitic Charisma: A Critique of Max Weber’s Interpretations of Paul, Jews, and Charisma…” was just published online in MTSR. Happy to send a copy if you don’t have access!

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Many, many congrats to Rikki Liu, UT PhD student, for receiving the 2024 Brooten award for a terrific paper on “Scripting Pain, Distributing Affect: P.Mich.inv. 1190 and the Gendered Labor of Ritual”!! sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/...

Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East | Essays in Honor o This collection of essays from a diverse group of internationally recognized scholars builds on the work of Steven J. Friesen to analyze the material and

Great news: *Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East: Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen* just turned a year old, which means it’s now fully open access! You can download the whole book or individual chapters for free at this link:

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The Social-Scientific Criticism of the NT unit has planned some awesome sessions at the SBL Annual Meeting Nov. 23-26. If you’re heading to San Diego, I hope you can make it to some of these!!

If you watched the movie, don't know your secutor from your scutum, but still want to know what the film took from history (and which bits it changed,) then here's my guide to sifting the facts from the fictions in Gladiator II. Spoiler free!!

Looking forward to catching up with friends and colleagues at ASOR in Boston this week! Particularly excited for our Antiochia ad Cragum (hybrid) sessions this coming Saturday!

With #SBLAAR24 right around the corner, I've updated the starter pack of ancient religion scholars to reflect our swelling ranks. Let me know if you'd like to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/9y592Bk

JSHJ’s last issue of the year is officially out! Editorial by yours truly, followed by some other great pieces!

Enjoy!

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If you’re interested on how and why Spiritual Warfare impacts politics, check out the people listed in my starter pack!

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